Comments on: Service (Flickr) vs Software (host your own) http://www.theleagueofpaul.com/blog/2008/12/05/service-flickr-vs-software-host-your-own/ Blog of Paul ("Aeoth") Jenkins, forging the way into awesomeness through Android and WPF/.NET dev Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul http://www.theleagueofpaul.com/blog/2008/12/05/service-flickr-vs-software-host-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-5380 Paul Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:31:50 +0000 http://www.aeoth.net/blog/2008/12/05/service-flickr-vs-software-host-your-own/#comment-5380 You're absolutely right, those sort of little things like being able to upload from XYZ app automagically by default makes it a lot more inviting to use those services - Live Photo Gallery and Lightroom in particular (since I use those two a fair bit).... I suppose that's another part I didn't cover, Flickr's API is pretty good, but embedding it into your website adds a lot of overheads.. You’re absolutely right, those sort of little things like being able to upload from XYZ app automagically by default makes it a lot more inviting to use those services – Live Photo Gallery and Lightroom in particular (since I use those two a fair bit)….

I suppose that’s another part I didn’t cover, Flickr’s API is pretty good, but embedding it into your website adds a lot of overheads..

]]> By: joshnunn http://www.theleagueofpaul.com/blog/2008/12/05/service-flickr-vs-software-host-your-own/comment-page-1/#comment-5379 joshnunn Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:25:35 +0000 http://www.aeoth.net/blog/2008/12/05/service-flickr-vs-software-host-your-own/#comment-5379 I had the same issue when I started taking more photos. I had a free Flickr account, and webhosting and really wanted to host my own photos. What it came down to was the workflow: with a paid Flickr account I could upload using a nice piece of software (or from my phone or email or whatever) tag it, permission it and group it. Then using tan tan noodles' Flickr Photo Album plugin (http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/) could quickly add one of my Flickr photos to a post and link it to an album "hosted" on my site, or straight back to Flickr. It was a no-brainer when I looked at the under-developed state of the open source or free alternatives. And if I understand your wish-list, Flickr offers all those things. I had the same issue when I started taking more photos. I had a free Flickr account, and webhosting and really wanted to host my own photos.

What it came down to was the workflow: with a paid Flickr account I could upload using a nice piece of software (or from my phone or email or whatever) tag it, permission it and group it. Then using tan tan noodles’ Flickr Photo Album plugin (http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/) could quickly add one of my Flickr photos to a post and link it to an album “hosted” on my site, or straight back to Flickr.

It was a no-brainer when I looked at the under-developed state of the open source or free alternatives. And if I understand your wish-list, Flickr offers all those things.

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