Flickr Power
I’ve seen Flickr before plenty of times. It’s been around for a while but I’ve only now decided to try it. It is so easy that I’m going to start putting all my photos up on my FlickrBlog and keeping all my text separate here on my weblog. I still may post a photo here from time to time but I’ve been getting more and more into photography lately and Flickr has done an absolutely beautiful job with their Ajax-based web aplication.
I’m normally one who likes to keep everything on my own domain but Flickr is awesome! I’m going to go ahead and directly recommend that all of my friends and family use this program. It’s free version is pretty good and the paid version is only $25 a year and you can upload practically unlimited photos to your blog.
So, Paul, Denise, Carla, Joan and all my friends at work must try this program! My family needs to try this too. There, I said it. It’s so very cool!
Talking to Carla just now whilst I’m typeing this she had a great idea! She wanted to know if we could use it at work to make money. If we uploaded photos and then charged people to download them we could have that as a source of income. I told her that was not possible with flickr alone. However, her idea sparked an idea of my own. We could use Flickr at work to have an archival system of all of our photos. Flickr allows you to create photo-sets of all of your photos. You can tag them, title them, and then they become searchable. If we simply choose to make the photos we upload private we can upload everything and then people can search for photos as they need them in projects. Paul, if you don’t read this by Monday I’ll be there Monday morning to tell you all about it.