Flickr

Ok so I've had a look at Flickr, uploaded a picture to my blog and had a play around with uploading pictures to both Twitter and Flickr to see the connections there.

I like the idea of there being an online photo gallery like Flickr. Picking and choosing who can and can't see your pictures is a nice touch and having albums that say, your whole family can add to is pretty nice too. It means that if, for example, you and a friend go on holiday, only one of you need to set up the photo album but you can both upload to it. Much better than adding them to facebook for example.

I also like the way that you can use Flickr to add a little slideshow to your other websites. You can see this being done on professional websites all the time so being able to add something similar to my own is pretty sweet :)

As with most photo sharing technology, Flickr has an app for mobile phones which means that pictures can be uploaded within seconds of them being taken which is pretty handy: you can share things with people almost as theyre happening.

On a non-personal use basis, I also like the way that certain internation bodies have got albums and accounts with Flickr that show you what they're doing. For example, the NASA Goddard Photo Stream contains some beautiful photos that I otherwise wouldn't have seen.

The last aspect of Flickr that I was quite taken by was the community forums/App Garden where users are able to share apps that they have developed to work in conjunction with Flickr. This is a very nice approach for Flickr to take with user submitted ideas.