Albert Lai is the CEO of BubbleShare, a
software company that makes a web application bearing the same name. Albert’s and my path have crossed time and again ever since I graduated from Crazy Go Nuts University and entered the working world. We first met eleven years ago during the interactive CD-ROM boom at Mackerel Interactive Media, when he was still in high school and doing an internship there. We later met at during the P2P boom in 2000/2001 when we lived at the same Fillmore/Fulton townhouse complex in San Francisco and were working at our respective peer-to-peer projects (I was at OpenCola, and I can’t remember where Albert was working). We’ve recently crossed paths again, this time during the Web 2.0/web services boom, and BubbleShare is his project.
BubbleShare is a pretty nice photo-sharing web thingy, with the annoyances of many photo-sharing web thingies excised. You don’t have to register to start posting photos online, nor do you need to download software or pay a monthly fee. Photos on BubbleShare can be annotated with comments and even audio. It makes it easy to send email that says “Hey, look at my photos” to your friends and family, and it’s set up so that even the least technical of them — for most people, it’s “my mom”, but in my case, it’s Dad who’s the most technologically hopeless — can click a link and see your photos.
BubbleShare’s holding a contest and the company for whom I work, Tucows, is lending a hand. Click here for the details, and find out how to win some prizes. One of the prizes is an iPod Nano, and who knows — maybe my iPod Nano-luck will rub off on you.