I’m happy to release the second version of barkhuff.com. Time to breathe some life back into this beast and restore it to its proper place.
The first version launched five years ago, and it did a good job documenting our year-long European adventure. Since then, the lights pretty much went out. Facebook took off, and that has been the keeper of our digital memories for the last four+ years. That stops today.
Facebook makes it really easy to share all my photos, videos, and random thoughts, but I recently realized what a bad idea it would be to make it THE central place where all that information is published. In 10 years, I’ll want to look back through the highlights. In 10 years, I’ll want to see what was important to me. On Facebook, what’s important and what’s not are indiscriminately intermingled. On Facebook, the photo of me with my newborn child is next to the photo of a pair of Jordan’s I was tagged in by someone I kind of know. There’s too much noise, and I can’t separate what’s lasting from what’s transient. Over time, that becomes a big problem.
So, from now on, this is the new home for all things Barkhuff. The photos, the videos, the funny things our kids say – it all goes here. I still like Facebook, and I’ll still use it. I’ll just use it differently.
Stay tuned, we’ve got a bunch of updates coming. This redesign also extends around back where the magic happens. It’s much easier for us to make updates, and there’s some good stuff on the horizon.
– Justin
Yay! Thank you for this :)
Awesome. I’ve missed your site in the time since Europe. Thanks for doing this.
Gpa_x
Nice! I actually do think there would be a market for selling the curation.
The niche would be married couples / young familes. Facebook is cool when you are single but difficult when you are married. I refuse to do the joint account… and I still want to have a web presence to post the important stuff to my friends but I don’t necessarily want to communicate this to all of my new friends and all of the friends whose request I accepted because we ate 2nd lunch together at Sawyer.
It would be great if each of you had a stream and then could meld that into one stream. Or if I as the user could decide what streams or keywords I want to peruse. (i.e. I only want to see photos from vacations featuring the family)
More thoughts to come. Looks great.