Flickr and Fotki
I’ve moved some of my older photo galleries off my web server over to fotki.com.
Fotki.com is great, and so is Flickr.com. Both give you unlimited photo storage for the reasonable yearly fee. Flickr is more of a “photoblog” in that you have a “photostream”, or stream of photos. Not folders and albums. You can create “sets” but I find those to be a pain.
Fotki is more traditional. You have folders and galleries. So you can have folders by year, and then by subject, for example. Fotki has ftp, which I live by, flickr does not (yet).
Flickr has more of a community, where people comment on your photos, add you as contacts, invite you to groups… there are photo groups with discussion boards and “photo pools”. Flickr lets you blog directly. I can take a pic w/ my camera phone, email it to a particular email address, and in one moment the photo appears not only in my flickr account, but ALSO on my blog at the SAME time. I do this ALL the time with The Pug’s blog.
Both are cool, but in different ways. I like both. I store all my photos at fotki, because it’s straightfoward and organized, especially for the viewer who may or may not be very computer savvy. I put copies of some of my favorite photos on flickr to share w/ other photo nuts, to hear comments, to participate in groups, and I use it to blog photos.
Anyway, it’ll take a while to get all my galleries moved over to fotki, but it’s well on it’s way. Then I can use my web space for other things, like video. Although… there will soon be a place like flickr and fotki but for video: vimeo.com. Ah, the world keeps changing.