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Eye-Fi Appears to Be Getting Into the Photo Management Business with Circ

Chris Gampat
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11/19/2012
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Last Updated on 11/19/2012 by Chris Gampat

Google Alerts tipped me off to something interesting today. Eye-fi, the company known for the world’s first Wifi enabled SD card before Wifi in cameras was the cool thing to do, is apparently launching a new photo management software. Seemingly coined Circ, the service hints at being able to manage all of your photos cross platform in a fashion similar to iCloud, Dropbox, Sony Play Memories, or Google Drive.

Based on the symbols at the bottom of the screen, it seems that users will be able to sync their photos, organize them, view them, share them and keep them in the cloud. See that symbol on the bottom right though in Keep? It looks oddly familiar; like 500PX familiar. This will be a great addition for current Eye-Fi users. But on a personal level, it has me wondering if Eye-Fi’s game could be over with the likes of Samsung’s mirrorless cameras and Canon’s 6D entering the WiFi game. Indeed, we were impressed by the Canon 6D’s wifi tethering abilities.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.