It works better.

How so?

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The interface, for one, is much more organized and straight-forward.

It’s also an incredible pain having to sign up for a yahoo email account just because you want a flickr account. I can honestly say that my yahoo email account will never see the light of day!

Five minutes of extra sign up time?! Say it ain’t so!

The number one reason to use flickr is that everyone uses it. Great way to make contacts and meet interesting people.

A) everyone else is doing it
2) no one will know
iii) just a little won’t hurt
4) er, um, sorry, wrong answers...

I heard if you smoke flickr without a filter it works better....

Real links instead of JavaScript pseudolinks, meaning every photo has a permalink. Tags, sets, collections. You can upload by E-mail or any number of other methods.

Certain tasks are unreasonably difficult on Flickr, but most tasks aren’t.

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Joe Clark
http://joeclark.org/

I don’t necessarily buy the “more organized interface” theory... I think that can be pretty subjective. Picasa seemed more straight forward and easier to figure out than Flickr, though I haven’t really spent enough time with Flickr to honestly compare.

the pseudo JavaScript link thing, and uploading via email for Flickr I wasn’t aware of.

OK, I’m sold.
(sign... I got a heck of a lot of crap to move over from the Dark Side)

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(sign... I got a heck of a lot of crap to move over from the Dark Side)

Pfft.
Add my as a friend on flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13659176@N00/

The API is also pretty awesome. If you have a Wordpress blog, for instance, you can use a plugin to automatically use Flickr as a database of your images if you want to create a photo gallery. That’s what I have on my page Photos.

At my school’s newspaper, we use Flickr to manage all photo content that is going to be published. Editors can comment on which ones they like best, etc., for selection for print. THEN, as an added benefit, our Webmaster can then hotlink to Flickr so that readers can look at higher-res versions and also to comment.

It’s a win-win-win situation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangayle/
+HaleyFiege

Add yourself to the Typophile group there and find all 554 of us :-)