This is Brandon right before I showed him this flickr thing.
I was playing around at the Creative Commons site and there was a link to this Flickr site. I started playing around with it and it is pretty freaking cool. At the lowest level it is a place to upload a bunch of pictures and share them for all to see. But, it’s much more than that. Right now I have it set up so that I can send pictures from my camera phone to a special email address that posts them to my blog. It uses the subject of the email as the blog’s title and the body of the email as the description of the picture. That’s what I did for this post, then I editted it to add all of this text. Besides all of that, the interface to the thing is freaking amazing. I’m sure there are a few ideas we can get from this system to use at work. It’s just very friendly and well organized. All of these features are free. It seems like the real limiting aspect of the free version is that you can only upload 10MB per month and can only really have 100 pictures up there at a time. The pay version allows 1GB of uploads per month and an unlimited number of photos. It’s kind of expensive at ~$40 per year, but I guess in the end it is only a few bucks a month. I figure I’ll play with it and see if I use it at all and then decide if I want to pay for it. But, check it out. It’s refreshing to see a website that is so easy to use and yet offers a lot of pretty advanced features. I dig it.
