Flickr Online Photo Service Reviewed

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

[Speare]

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.

Ad Rates

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi! I was wondering what the rates are for getting my business mentioned as a front-page Slashdot story? At first I thought that I might have to insert open-source code into my commercial product and claim it as my own, but now that seems to not be necessary.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Re:2 places that like it

[xetaprag]

You've got to wonder if this isn't a trend that has larger consequences.

Photo storage has traditionally been a "OS" centric activity. Peronsal photos tend to be exactly that, personal. But if users are willing to store (and trust) personal information on (to) public internet sites, then why not display the same trust will all but your password files. If I can store my email on GMail, my photos on-line, and my documents online, what's left for the average user? If I am an average joe (and am not hiding a secret porn stash) then why not store the majority of my digital information on-line.

At some point Microsoft or the Linux-folks are going to have to realize that OS systems design to manage data on just-local drives are woefully inadequate.

Re:Andvanced piracy???

[billstr78]

They do use advanced piracy detection techniques. They are big into creative commons liciencing and since I often post photographs found on the web, my account has been marked as "bad", and henseforth my photos don't show up in public searches

Re:Christian Science Monitor?

[adturner]

Uh, obviously you've never actually read an issue of the CSM otherwise you'd never make such a remark. While it is published by a church (not one I particularly care for btw), it is one of the best researched independant publications in print since they actually have reporters in foreign countries rather then just relying on AP/Newswire/etc. Not quite up to Economist standards in my unhumble opinion, but worth at least looking into.

Open Source photo repository

[scaramush]

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!

Flickr API

[Anonymous Coward]

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