Flickr and Whatnot

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Yes, I've joined flickr -- will play with it a bit this weekend.  Not sure what the advantages or disadvantages are of using it vs. just posting stuff up on my blog, but I'll give it a whirl -- after all, it's free!

So tonight I have two birthday parties to attend, and given the weather, I was excited that they were both in Brooklyn.  That is, until I looked at a map and realized that they were nowhere near each other and would require ridiculous subway transfers/walking in the freezing cold.  First plan of action, however, as soon as my stupid Palm finishes synching here (which is taking forever since it seems to have died on me and I had to start from scratch) is to go home and take a short nap.  That said, I have a feeling I'm only going to make it to the latter of the two birthdays (which happens to be the more subway-access-friendly of the two).

And speaking of birthdays -- tomorrow night Ms. Standard Deviance and I are hosting our belated birthday bash.  If you know me and didn't receive an email, drop me a note and I'll forward the details (it was most likely an oversight -- my contacts are in about 5 different places these days).

Comments

[mark]

Lauren, Flickr simply rocks. While at first glance it might seem like simply a hipper OFoto it's much much more.

A lot of the power comes from (a) freeform tags that can be applied to photos, (b) the use of Flash, and (c) the fact that you can use RSS to subscribe to people or to tags.

Some things I dig:
*Your friends don't need to log into anything to see your photos (unless you make them private)
*Easy to add Flikr thumnails to your TypePade blog,
*You (and your readers) can add notes to photos, see for example:
http://flickr.com/photos/48889110136@N01/3634628/
*Great camera phone/blogging support
*Crazy cool groups and memes that sprout up around tags, like squaredcircle:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/squaredcircle/

Oh, almost forgot, Flickr also has great photos!

And no, I'm not on the Flickr payroll . . . in fact I pay them.

[Vince]

Flickr is one very nice tool for typepad-weblogs.
It's very nice to add thumnails from your pictures to you weblog. I'm sure you will use it. And yes, it's free.

[la depressionada]

I love flickr.