Not only did I get a Flickr account this week, I shelled out some money for a Pro account.
I’ve always preferred to keep my pictures local on my server, to be served up through Lightbox2, but having them on Flickr means that I can have a photostream, which people seem to be asking for lately. I’ll also have an online backup of my full-sized prints with access to them anywhere in the world (as long as I have internet access), and get to share pictures of parties/events with the appropriately involved friends (hint hint, go sign up for an account so I can give you access).
I’m slowly going through my entire collection, making full-scale copies of the important photos, uploading, describing, then tagging them. It’s taking a while, because I normally save for web-size only.
Hopefully, people will give a hand in identifying these flowers. I have about eight of them identified so far, but until they’re all correctly labelled, I’ll have to live with names like IMG_1033.jpg, thus leaving me feeling very incomplete (I know, I know, I’m a bad Taoist — probably a part of my mild OCD).
I’ve only been a member for two days, and my most popular photo? Wet doggy by far at 115 views and one favourite already. Why? Probably because of the “thong” tag (which is displayed much more prominently in larger sizes).
Along with Twitter, the signs getting more obvious that I’m slowly being pulled into Web 2.0.
You went with Flickr huh? I bought a Picasa subscription but likely won’t renew it…it didn’t work quite as well with the Picasa software as I thought it would, and now I’m using MozyHome to back up all my data so I really don’t need to duplicate the storage.
By the way, are you going to install the OpenID plugin? It’d be nice to use my OpenID account for posting comments here :D
Flickr seems to be the better choice… I’ve heard some people use smugmug but they don’t like it as much. This girl I know ended up doing a wedding gig because someone liked her Flickr photos :)
@trolley — I liked the concept of Picasa for the computer, but I heard not-so-great things about the web based service (mainly the lack of community). Most important to me was the fact that even if you upgraded the service to a paid account, you’re still limited to 6GB, whereas it’s unlimited for Flickr. VERY important difference. I’m going to look into this MozyHome thing, cause I need some sort of off-site backup for other files as well.
I’m still considering the OpenID thing. 9rules is also thinking about it for their Notes, so maybe I’ll get a chance to use it from the clients point of view before implementing it for the server side.
@Sophia — One thing I like about Flickr (and maybe I’m just coming in late to recent updates) is the interface. The UI is just awesome. The community seems much more pervasive too, cause I run into Flickr apps, streams, and dicsussion everywhere. It’s also cheaper for a pro membership, now that Yahoo bought them out.