This is the first web 2.0 company I’m talking about. If you haven’t already, read the introduction post here.
No, not photobucket, or sony image station, and DEFINITELY not facebook. Flickr is an amazing photo sharing website. I got myself a pro account, and I haven’t ever looked back. The pro account is $25 / year, and gives you unlimited uploads and storage and access to everything on the website. (Free accounts are limited to 200mb upload every month, and only 200 pictures can show up in your public album). Even though it costs money, it is a great service. It is amazingly easy to add pictures (just drag and drop onto a program in windows, then click upload), and then the interface is great.
It is a very open system. The four pictures that show up on the right side of my website are pulled directly from flickr. Also, if you have noticed the photos section of my website is generated directly from my flickr account. That means when I upload a picture to flickr it goes everywhere. With wordpress (the system that controls this site), I use FAlbum for the gallery, flickrRSS for the side of the front page, and Flickr Photo Gallery so I can add pictures to posts easily.
As a side note, Flickr has been around forever. It was eventually bought by Yahoo, which makes it one of the only Yahoo products that are really decent (and better than google’s picassaweb). Also, it was just about the first big web 2.0 site that had a name that was slightly misspelled.. it was strange then, but is all too common now. Also, the logo is typical of all web 2.0 companies. (Basic text with flashy colors)
Add me, or look at my stuff on flickr (i prefer their system to my system :-P). Username: nmcbean
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