Did someone finally listen to my pleas for better visualization of photo albums on the web? Tabblo is a local web startup that lets you create little tableaus (or Treemaps, if you wish) from photos on your computer. Tabblo lets you move photos around, resize, add captions, zoom in and out, and all that good stuff. Importing is easy with iPhoto plugins, Flickr integration, and so on. Once your photos are in Tabblo, it’s painfully hard to use! I created my first Tabblo, worked on it for 20 minutes in vain, trying to make it look the way I wanted it, and then reset it back to their default. I tried adding captions, but all the photos shifted beneath my feet and nothing ever lined up as desired. This site has too much clever magic behind it and not enough basic user testing.
Anyway, here’s my Tabblo of photos from our recent trip to London and Paris: