Comments on: Video and Flickr http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/ A clueless and confused enthusiast's photographic exploits and thoughts Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:17:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Migrating from Flickr? « Adventures of an Idiot - occasional ramblings of a photography freak http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-238 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:55:57 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-238 [...] The introduction of video clips on Flickr, following so soon after the news that Microsoft may buy Yahoo (parent company of Flickr) was sufficient to start me thinking about moving to a different photo-sharing site (see this post). [...]

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-237 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:57:31 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-237 Another update…

Oooh, I can hardly handle the excitement!

Just been tinkering around with yet another Flickr alternative, and this one looks really promising.

In fact, this whole topic seems to be turning into such a saga that I think I’ll do a proper (and new) blog post for it.

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-236 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:33:48 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-236 Update to last comment…

Hmm, Zooomr appears to be very buggy… using Firefox browser at least. Uploading’s iffy, geotagging’s iffy, there appears to be no equivalent to Flickr’s “organizr”, and generally quite slow.

So I can’t see me changing from Flickr anytime soon
:(

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-235 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:17:44 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-235 Latest news…

Well, I think I may have found a reasonable alternative to Flickr (and they accept payment through PayPal!)…
Zooomr (www.zooomr.com)

Its pretty much a Flickr lookalike though still very much in early stages of development (a little bit buggy, a little bit slow in places, and not all features operational) and so far it seems to have a fairly small user-base, but its definitely got promise.

They do free and pro accounts and, even with the free account, there’s no limit on number/size of photos.

]]> By: forkboy1965 http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-233 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:55:51 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-233 Time to build that server and host yourself…..

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-227 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:01:50 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-227 I agree… smugmug (definitely have to do something about that name!) looks real neat, but I’ve already hit the first snag.
Signed up for the 14-day trial, then discovered their methods of payment don’t include the card I use for internet transactions.
Fired off a quick email to them and, whilst I can’t knock their response time (within just a few hours) things don’t look very hopeful. So I may have to give them a miss whether I wanted to or not.
Pity.

]]> By: forkboy1965 http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-226 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:02:02 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-226 Right there on the home page….about middle of screen – “Flee Flickr” with image of goldfish bowl.

Of course by free they mean an account by which you can try their service, otherwise there is a regularly yearly fee, but it seems quite reasonable.

Actually, I thought their site looked really sharp – nicer than Flickr (or any other site I’ve recently looked over). I may just skip the whole Flickr experience and go straight to smugmug (yes; damn that name).

]]> By: fotdmike http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-221 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:21:57 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-221 forkboy… you’re a star!!!

Three cheers for forkboy!!!
:)

I was absolutely certain I’d seen a mention on one of those freebie photo-hosting sites about a neat way of importing pics from Flickr. But having rummaged around in my rather decrepit brain cells I just couldn’t recollect the name of the site.
And weirdly, though I was looking at smugmug (damn that name) just earlier today (looking for that precise feature), I didn’t find it.
So now, back to smugmug again and look harder.

]]> By: forkboy1965 http://fotdmike.com/2008/04/09/video-and-flickr/#comment-218 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:47:57 +0000 http://fotdmike.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-218 Isn’t this the problem with the Internet? One becomes happy and comfortable with a web site and then suddenly something changes and you are no longer satisfied. What do you do? Pack it all in and move to another with the subsequent problems and issues that will undoubtedly arise? Bite the bullet and leave things as they are?

It’s a tough call.

So I look at smugmug (yeah, not real fond of the name myself) and I see they have some feature that will help one move from flickr. As the account is free perhaps you should open an account and try some photos as an experiment?

Oh, and I love this part of their web site: “We’re independently owned and here to stay.” So many great websites started that way, but……

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