Everywhere I look these days, it’s Flickr, Flickr, Flickr. Like the saying goes, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” so I did yesterday afternoon. I’m still not convinvced Flickr is any better for me than .Mac, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that can give me some opinions and examples on why it’s better.
I uploaded a couple of albums already to test out the interface. Overall, it’s pretty good — there are quite a few options and there is a whole community of people that you can make as contacts. I quickly found several people that I know to add as contacts.
I’m currently using a Flickr plugin for iPhoto, which seems to be the best upload/management interface I’ve found so far. The plugin doesn’t seem to be able to create an album for me, although it did upload pictures just fine if I didn’t choose to create a new album.
Shortly after signing up, a good friend got me upgraded to a Flickr Pro account (Thanks), which gives you a whole lot of extras — mostly lifting restrictions of the free account.
Like I said, I’m not totally convinced yet, but I’m going to give it a try and see what happens.
July 6th, 2005 at 9:01 am
[...] After signing up for my Flickr account and noticing more and more sites with “tag blobs,” I decided to give it a try and see what it would be like on my site. A tag blob is the list of tags in the sidebar, representing all of the keywords I have used for blogs I’ve posted on the site. [...]