I would like to host my images somewhere else, since I’m paying €20 per month for emacswiki.org bandwidth in Germany. I’ve been using Flickr for the occasional file upload, but I haven’t been using it seriously enough. ¹
I wanted a good integration into a client program: Either an independent uploader (preferably free software, of course), or a plugin into iPhoto, since I’m still using it.
Today I gave both of them a try, and uploaded all the pics I had from my hiking trip on the AlpenPassRoute to a Picasa Web Album and into a a Flickr Photoset.
I’ll have to see how easy reorganizing an existing album is, since the pictures I uploaded are more or less in random order.
There’s a pretty good Flickr RSS feed with the last 20 pictures in it. Getting a feed of all of them would be ideal: All the info I care about for now are in there... Or I’ll have to take a look at the Flickr::API Perl library. The Picasa RSS feed, on the other hand, seems to contain all the images I just uploaded, and a bit more meta information including links to thumbnails.
Hm, should I add all 66 pictures to the Switzerland group on Flickr? Something tells me that would be rude, which is why I hit the cancel button after 8 pictures got sent to the group...
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I’d recommend flickr. The UI is pretty slick and intuitive. also their API is open, so I think you can write some tool to upload pics...
Does use flash heavily at places, though with good effect. Also storage is somewhat limited.
– AadityaSood 2006-08-03 10:59 UTC
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I’m using flickr right now. It has the advantage that you can also upload “private” images. As to upload stuff, they have uploading tools (for OSX as well). There should be some plugins for iphoto to flickr as well. And they have only bandwith limit, but no storing limmit. The website is not always very intuitive on flickr though. And sometimes not that “snappy”. Google seems to be much faster, but they probably have much view users (for now).
– 2ni 2006-08-03 12:30 UTC
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Hm, both seem to have upload tools for OSX ¹². I’ll upload the same collection of images to my Flickr account and see which one I like better...
– Alex Schroeder 2006-08-03 12:52 UTC
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It seems that the Flickr Uploadr crashed while uploading. Gah!
– Alex Schroeder 2006-08-03 13:08 UTC
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Restarted Uploadr, authorized myself, quit, restarted, started upload, and now it seems to work. Weirdo bugs.
– Alex Schroeder 2006-08-03 13:12 UTC