EricM Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 <br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a><br><br> I've recently discovered a new online toy, called Flickr. <br><br> Yet another place to waste time and make your eye balls squirrelly. I've been watching this place for a bit now as it's a Vancouver software company that has been recently picked up Yahoo. Their office is just down the hall from my web master here in Vancouver and now they're dot com millionaires. I knew i should have bought in on the ground floor! The site is now growing by leaps and bounds. Anyway, I've recently signed up for a free account. It is a great piece of software, you can view as a slide show and choose the intervals between pix, or view individually. You can choose if the photo goes private, like for friends and family and invites only, or put it public for the world to see. There are tons of choices for batching and folders too. Email and communication is included within Flickr and has the possibility of being another online community if you wish. I'm really digging it. I think this will be a standard for sharing photos soon. Everyone in the house with an internet connection will soon have a Flickr account like a hotmail address (hint; get your name while you can).You can blog from Flickr. You can add as many tags for each image too. You can just surf and check out so many images quickly or slowly. Some are great others are just cell phone krap. Free accounts get 20mb of bandwith a calendar month. Their resizing software makes the images at 500pix on the horizon. If you upload larger images, like mine for PN are at 720, then you take up more bandwith and get less uploads. I now resized mine to 500 and obviously it takes less. Play around with jpg quality settings in order to help out your limit too. <br><br>Anyway, I hope you enjoy and participate. If you do sign up it would be cool to come back to this thread and share your url. <br><br>I've bumped into a few familiar faces on Flickr from PN too but I'll leave it up to each individual if they want to share their url here or not, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stillz/"> but here's my main page so far, </a> or cooler yet, is the flash animation that you can <a href=" http://www.flickr.com/photos/stillz/show/">view as a slide show.</a> I set the timer for quick loads, but tastes vary. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 I started using Flickr for about 6 months or so for blogging purposes & generally like the interface. There have been a few service glitches like any other site, but since it helped me get a picture in the Washington Post, I really can't complain! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/furcafe/show/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/furcafe/show/</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett_davis1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Eric, loved the "I live here" photo. I just opened a Flickr account as well, and don't have much on it yet. My goal is to take most of the shots I put there with my trusty 0-Series. It's at www.flickr.com/photos/brettdavis/. I have a few more to be uploaded tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett_davis1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Christopher, seeing your picture in the Post magazine on Sunday is what inspired me to set up an account. Took about two minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Flickr is neat. But I dislike the pay model (since I'm a cheapskate) and prefer to use <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> and various plugins for <a href="http://www.evilphotoeye.com/">my own blog.</a> But, as you can see, I haven't really figured out a good way to present photos within the Wordpress interface. Which is why there are just a bunch of old photos up on the site. Not to mention the fact that creating a whole css based site takes more energy than I have, so my blog is a weird mix of css/xhtml/html that would make any serious web designer cringe. <P> And speaking of photo blogs, this is a plenty good excuse to remind everyone of <a href="http://www.saxephoto.blogspot.com/">Saxe PhotoBlog</a> which is great fun to read. Especially the most recent post about his last year as a hospital photographer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 When Flickr first opened I didn't pay much attention to it. I host my own photos and have plenty of both storage and bandwidth. But, as I have been discovering, what can make Flickr enjoyable is the level of community involvement. I've found a number of area photographers through Flickr. I've had my account for a while but only recently started adding photos. I also take the lesser-bandwidth route and only post images around 500px in size. It's been interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelkh Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Dotcom is to millionnaire as paper is to tiger. I lived in that world and grew to dislike it. Flickr certainly looks cool though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_kennedy1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 yeah, flickr is great. someone should start up a photo.net group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_hall1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Anyone knows a picture hosting site (free) that doesn't resize your uploads and offers viewer control? I don't need all the fancy stuff like blogging, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted May 23, 2005 Author Share Posted May 23, 2005 I've changed my account to a more favorable one. I goofed on the url part and had a different handle than my url. So I made another account and am currently <a href=" http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric_vancouver/">uploading it here.</a><br><br>Andrew, sounds like you want a website. Something like what you request is definitely a website, and they're not free. I can't see how you could complain about flickr for what they provide. Maybe fill your boots with your PN folder? <br><br> Josh, cool links, thanks man. <br><br> Brett, cheers. It's all about fun isn't it? <br><br> Rob, I too like the community and tag aspect of it. Going to share you url? <br><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_hall1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Eric, I'm NOT complaining about Flickr. Like everything else in the world, it doesn't fill everybody's needs. (what a surprise) My ISP does give me free server space, but that's not what I'm have in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted May 23, 2005 Author Share Posted May 23, 2005 Andrew, there is some great blog software out there that might suit you. One of my faves is <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/thumbnails.php">Chromasia.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_hall1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Thanks Eric. That site looks impressive, but I think the webmaster is selling his photos, not software. BTW, I'm just looking for a simple image hosting service and don't need any blogging. Limited storage is fine as long as they don't downsize my uploads and offer viewer control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Andrew, a bunch of free blog sites, like blogger.com, will let you do the blogging part. I mainly use Flickr to host my images. FYI, although Flickr resizes pix for default display purposes (perhaps that's what Eric means by "on the horizon"), it does store them @ the full, original uploaded size, you just have to click on the "All Sizes" link above each photo. Of course, I'm a paying "Pro" member, so maybe that only applies to my level of membership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r s Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Thanks for the links - may set up a flickr account one of these days after seeing some of the sites there. <br> So far I only use pbase where I keep my <a href="http://pbase.com/rsilfverberg">photos</a href> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted May 24, 2005 Author Share Posted May 24, 2005 nice images there Rich. i like the 6x6 stuff inparticuliar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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