The Macworld 2009 keynote is now behind us, and while most of the tech pundits are reacting with disappointment, I am quite pleased. It is interesting to hear about new hardware products, but I'm not in the market to buy any new computers in the near future (given the current economic climate I'm sure I'm not alone), but I'm a big user of iLife and that suite hasn't been updated for a year and a half.
Back in April 2007, right before Blake was born, I switched away from using Blogger and Flickr to iWeb based on Becky's feedback about our site. Before then hovenkotter.net (I eventually gave up on that domain figuring that .com would be more memorable) pointed to this blog and in the margins were links to my Flickr page. She wanted more of a traditional site, and iWeb was the most logical choice.
After Apple announced the Web Galleries, I moved our photos to that given that it was a much better enduser experience. However they never integrated with iWeb very well, so I just created links from our central site to them.
Now iPhoto '09 has gained the ability to integrate with Flickr (there have been third party plugins to do this for you before, but plugins aren't officially supported in iPhoto, so they made me nervous) as well as Facebook. I've missed the community features of Flickr a lot since I stopped using it, so I think I'll migrate back to it. I am a little nervous about Flickr's future given that Yahoo isn't doing really well these days and many of the Flickr people have been laid off, but it is still the premiere photo sharing site.
The Facebook integration is also cool. I don't think I get a lot of traffic to hovenkotter.com, but whenever I upload anything to Facebook I know it gets viewed and I usually get comments on it too. Over the past six months my usage of Facebook has gradually increased to the point where I typically check out my feed about once a day and update my profile several times per week.
I'm not sure what to do about the blog. iWeb's blogger is pretty rudimentary, though I haven't seen if there are any improvements in the latest version. It looks like you can put RSS widgets in iWeb '09 so I may just move the blog out and insert a feed of it.
Regardless I'm really pumped to get my hands on iLife '09 and I'll be handing my money over for it as soon as it's available later this month.
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