http://typo.mattbo.com/articles/2007/06/06/photo-site-review en-us 40 probably not what you're looking for <p> Working on a new contract, I've been reviewing lots of online storage, and particularly online photo storage sites. SmugMug, Flickr, PhanFare, and SharpCast (among many others). It's been interesting seeing the various tradeoffs. </p><p> While I like Flickr (mostly because so many of my friends use it), SmugMug is pretty cool. Specifically, it has a much more fine-grained security policy (i.e. you can choose which friends get to view your pics). </p><p> Sharpcast has an interesting twist as well -- their client automatically syncs your images in the background. And if you do edits in their client, it will sync the edits as meta-data (takes less time and it's easier to reverse!). </p><p> In the end, this is work, and I'm testing. So here's my test photoset on Sharpcast, via their builtin sharing goobie, called PhotoWidget. Hope you like it (the pics are all from a tour of Magnolia Plantation Linds, Lish, Lish's parents, and I took in Charleston, SC in March). </p> <style type="text/css">#scwidget { border:none;width:350px;height:440px }#scwantone { text-align:center;font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px;border:none;}#scwantone a { text-decoration:none;color:#4985e3;line-height:1.8em}#scwantone a:hover {text-decoration:underline}</style><div id="scwidget"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="350" height="400" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.sharpcast.com/resources/swf/widget/widget.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="nickname=mattbo&album=20207_86788404150302&server=http://www.sharpcast.com" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><EMBED width="350" height="400" src="http://www.sharpcast.com/resources/swf/widget/widget.swf" FlashVars="nickname=mattbo&album=20207_86788404150302&server=http://www.sharpcast.com" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></EMBED></object><div id="scwantone">Want one of these? Well, then <a href="http://www.sharpcast.com/products/photos/widgets">come and get it!</a><br>Powered by <a href="http://www.sharpcast.com">Sharpcast</a></div></div> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:31 -0400 urn:uuid:3e659a99-e69e-471e-954b-15f403c9f1b1 Matt http://typo.mattbo.com/articles/2007/06/06/photo-site-review Tech http://typo.mattbo.com/articles/trackback/152 I can't be bothered to try using any other photo sharing sites, since Flickr is the one that's gotten me off my ass and taking and sharing my photos, but it's nice to know options exist. :) And you should definitely post more of your photos, somewhere on the intarwebs where Ted can see them. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:56:18 -0400 urn:uuid:218d6f6a-afad-4516-b002-9042bcbcec0f http://typo.mattbo.com/articles/2007/06/06/photo-site-review#comment-5