Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Smugmug photo sharing
Whilst Flickr gets much of the press these days, there are other photo sharing sites, as this article in Wired notes.
One such site is smugmug, which to my mind has much to recommend it over Flickr
One such site is smugmug, which to my mind has much to recommend it over Flickr
- it offers results as you type when keyword (tag) searching - giving a list of matching keywords sorted by most populous first
- images are shown using straightforward HTML - none of the nasty Flash presentation of Flickr which breaks the normal right mouse actions I expect to be able to do to images
- it picks up IPTC keywords already added to the images
- it has a search box right on the home page
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Actually, smugmug has over 15,000,000 images, far more than Flickr. They've been around longer, so it stands to reason.
I believe Flickr has more users, since they're free, but since they're limited in the amount of photos they can upload per month, I think the photo growth rate is slower.
I believe Flickr has more users, since they're free, but since they're limited in the amount of photos they can upload per month, I think the photo growth rate is slower.
I stand corrected on the relative sizes of the collections - I can't see where there are current values for smugmug quoted, but they did have 5.5m in June 2004, and flickr only has 4m images now (as quoted in this interview), but rising by about 0.5m every 10 days.
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