Astute Cruft readers will notice that I’ve changed my moblog from Textamerica to Flickr. There’s nothing wrong with Textamerica, but Flickr is much cooler. Far beyond a simple moblog site, Flickr has tons of cool things.
I met Caterina and Stewart, the founders of Flickr, at Digital Foo Camp and was chastised for not using Flickr as my moblog. Previously, I hadn’t given it much thought. Flickr seemed like a typical photo site when I first signed up.
When I took a closer look, I was impressed. The way you can see your friend’s photos and leave notes right on the picture is really cool. The integration of Flickr into use as a moblog and as a blogging tool is done well. They have good uploading tools for your computer and a simple way to send photos from your mobile phone.
You can check out my photos easily. You can even subscribe to feeds of my photos if you want to, that’s what the Atom feed to the right it.
My favorite feature is FlickrLive, the chat page where you can share pictures with others in an IRC style.
So signup with Flickr and add me as a contact. I wanna see your photos. You can find me as Argyle or search for Michael Pusateri.
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Testing Flickr
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Testing Flickr
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I agree, Flickr rocks. I actually started using it with my new blog after I saw a reference to it on blogger AND that you were using it with the Chinese dinner photo. Free, easy and no hassle registration.
I also checked out flickr. I like all the tools that are very well integrated into the site. Especially the gallery organizer, it rocks. Although the tools are fantastic and the upload apps are very handy I was less than thrilled at the amount of compression applied to images that were uploaded. This is great for moblogs or your average digicam snaps but for me all the tools in the world don’t make a danm difference if the actual image I uploaded is not the image displayed. Yes, I understand the bandwith issues, storage issues, bla, bla, bla but at the end of the day the images I uploaded got mauled and that just isn’t good enough. The whole site is centered around photos, the quality of those photos should be job one.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t the issues that JHO is talking about go away if you simply pay for a membership?
No, they don’t. The pro membership allows you to upload and save the source files. However, they are only available for viewing or download by other pro members (why would I pay for that?). Although you can have the source files on the site, I have not found a way to make the default image a unmodified file which I uploaded. As the owner of the file I can see the original. Although, I haven’t done a checksum of the image flickr displays as the original against my uploaded source file but it looks legit. However, I can’t set that image as the one which unregistered users see or even give them option to load it. Don’t get me wrong, the flickr site is robust, easy to use and the different tools for metadata and community building are really cool. Regardless, I feel that even though I have control in so many other aspects it comes at the price of relinquishing control over the core content. This, of course, is the image itself.
I rip on it but overall flickr is pretty kickass for something that is free of charge.
You’ve got to be a paying member to download full uncompressed files? That doesn’t make any sense. It should be “Pay to upload and store the big stuff, downloaders get it free”.
I thought that even unpaid users could look at the image at different sizes. I just logged out and hit my page and there’s a button for ‘all sizes’ that lets you see it at thumbnail, small, medium, large, and original.
It looks like the resize is to make it fit nicely on the page, though I do wish there was an easier way to go to the full size picture. Also, you can direct link to the stored image (it’s in the help as to what the url is).
Yes, for pro accounts, the original image is kept for all images. The original size image is also kept for free users for a period of time, in case they decide to upgrade.
And you don’t need a pro account to access the original files. It is the owner of the image that decides who is able to see and download the full size images. They can constrain it to themselves only, their friends and family, or open them up to the whole world.
Thanks for the kind words, Michael!