My brother, Andrew, a Web developer, is a very clever guy and a fan of woot.com.
Recently, he bought a digital picture frame from Woot that can be fed photos via RSS- as a gift to my parents.
The clever bit is where each of my siblings created a Flickr or Photobucket account in which to post photos of grandchildren. The feeds from each of these accounts was combined in Yahoo Pipes so that, once the frame is set up on my folks’ WiFi network, any new photos posted appear in their digital photo frame.
What a great way for a geographically dispersed family to keep grandparents updated.
My mom called to tell me how much she liked it, and I made a point of noting it was Andrew’s clever idea. All I did was mash the feed together in Yahoo Pipes.
I love technology when it is used intelligently.
