Flickr Online Photo Service Reviewed

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Flickr Online Photo Service Reviewed

Posted by michael on Thursday December 2, 2004 @04:26AM from the through-a-glass-darkly dept.

kschoenwandt writes "I have been an early fan of Flickr and while I am by far not as much of a shutter bug as most users seem to be, I enjoy the features and use it regularly. Taking some time out reading, I noticed that I am not the only one impressed: The Globe and Mail published a piece on it as did The Christian Science Monitor. Cool!"

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other useful service bureaus for photographers by Speare · 2004-12-02 04:34 · Score: 5, Informative
Besides the consumer-oriented shutterflys and the community of deviantart, there are other service bureaus which are of value to professional and serious amateur photographers out there.
- http://www.whcc.com/ -- great color-calibrated lightjet output at great prices if you're comfy with ftp
- http://www.pbase.com/ -- a free/cheap host for albums, allows deep links to images
- http://www.printroom.com/ -- a popular site for albums and print order processing
- http://www.smugmug.com/ -- a popular site for albums and print order processing
I used to use ezprints.com for lightjet output, but their color calibration is very spotty and inconsistent these days.
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Open Source photo repository by scaramush · 2004-12-02 04:48 · Score: 4, Informative

I've never used Flickr, but I have been using Gallery now for about 2 years. It's Open Source, based on PHP and MySQL. I've had to do two complete machine moves in that time, and it's handled them both flawlessly.

I think of all the OS projects I've used (and I've been at this a while now), Gallery has brought me the most pleasure. I had more or less put down my digital camera, because I found sharing, storing and cataloging photos publicly too much of a pain. Being able to share my photos with my friends and family has just been a real joy for me. (And before someone says it, they're pictures of my garden, not pr0n ;) ).

Gallery also has a hook to buy photos from Shutterbug (but I haven't been very happy with them so far).

Thanks Gallery!

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Flickr API by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-02 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

I work at Flickr. Of paricular note to /.rs, check out our open API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/