>> Flickr
There are plenty of good online photo albums, but Flickr stands way ahead of the pack as a brilliantly flexible service with a terrific emphasis on photo sharing. The site is equally well suited to creating a public gallery of photos taken with your camera-phone, or a secure password-protected group of photos of your children that can only be viewed by you and their grandparents.
Any Flickr user can leave comments about any photos in your public galleries and as with social networking sites like MySpace you can link directly to the galleries of other Flickr members to build up a group of online friends with similar interests.
All your photos can be allocated a selection of key words or tags, making it easy to search all of your own photos of your friend Ted, or the Eiffel Tower, or indeed all the photos of Teds (or Parisian landmarks) posted anywhere on Flickr.
If all you want is a good functional photo album, Flikr is certainly that, but encourage your friends to sign up and link to your galleries and you’ll soon discover how photo sharing can become highly addictive!
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