AKH Online, Inc

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Leveraging Cloud Photo Storage

Here is where the client keeps their own Picasa albums:

https://plus.google.com/116436246369189441172/photos

Here is where the photos from one album are repurposed for a web site gallery:

http://www.longbeachantiquemarket.com/index.cfm/photos/

There's no additional upload required. A ColdFusion script reads the XML data from Picasa and uses the data to display the same photos in our own web page. The script was then bundled into a Mura component for use within the CMS system.

In this example, the client is fond of the gallery format from Adobe Labs Spry for Ajax Framework.