A colleague at work turned me on the Flickr the other day. I had looked at it before, but didn't really get it. Since my dad set up his MSN space, I've been jealous of the nice photo sharing integration, and I've been disappointed in my gallery software, nGallery. Development seems to have stalled far short of the features I would like to have. It does alot of cool stuff well, but it's organizational and social features leave much to be desired. (difficult to read comments, poor RSS support, etc.)
I went ahead and created a flickr account and uploaded a few of my best photos. The organizational features are really cool, and it's got alot of social features, especially for other flickr users. For those of you browsing on my actual site rather than RSS, you can see I'm playing with some integration with my site. Speaking of RSS, flickr has deep RSS/Atom feed support. For instance it's really easy to use the organization features of flickr to create an RSS feed of hamster pictures. Here's my photostream RSS, although the Atom feed seems more streamlined and includes my buddy icon.
I think I'll keep my gallery around for some things. I really like nGallery's features that let you order prints directly from the gallery. But I'll probably let flickr be my artistic outlet.
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