Flickr goes Pro

Get your Flickr.com Pro account. I did, anyway.

Flickr is bloody brilliant. With a Pro account you get 1 GB of uploads per month, with unlimited storage and bandwidth.

I haven’t looked at the feature requests recently, but wouldn’t it be great if you could integrate Flickr into your sit and branding? We’ve been trying to get Whedonesque.com readers to use Flickr for off topic conversation and image sharing, but they’re not taking to it yet. Maybe if it looked more like Whedonesque itself, they would.

Same goes for U2log.com. Next year, U2 start touring. I’m hoping we can make it easy for fans to moblog the gigs.

06. October 2004 von Caroline
Categories: Web | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 3 comments

Comments (3)

  1. Hg says October 6, 2004 at 9:18 pm

    I still don’t see the attraction/USP/point, but your instinct on these things is usually good and I trust it.

    Can you give me a one-liner encapsulation of exactly why it’s so brilliant? Why do I need it when I’ve already got a blog?

  2. Chris says October 7, 2004 at 6:35 am

    In my case, it’s because it’s a thousand goddamn times easier than my current photolog setup is. I don’t know how automated SnapGallery is, but all I have to do now is click on a photo in iTunes, click “Export,” type in the image’s name, the note I want attached, and the tags I want to give it — I can even resize it right then and there — and click send, and kapow, it’s on the web for everybody. Previously I was manually editing and altering every photo, then uploading them with an FTP editor, then writing an HTML-intensive Movable Type entry for every photolog post. Bah.

  3. Caroline says October 7, 2004 at 8:48 am

    It’s on the web for everybody, or for a group of people. To see, to comment on, to annotate. To download in various sizes.

    Tags are powerful. You can see all the pictures you labelled ‘blue’, or everybody’s pictures labelled ‘blue’, or just a group’s pictures labelled blue. You have a group pool… i.e. if you have a community site like Whedonesque, you can have them socialise and share images at Flickr.

    Flickr has moblogging for dummies. I take a picture with my mobile wherever I am, e-mail it to Flickr and have it appear there or there and on my weblog.

    Flickr’s Organizr is a photo album tool akin to the ones you can buy for your PC, but it’s a smooth web app.

    And more.