Being a Pro…
In more recent updates, I caved and finally upgraded to a Pro Flickr account. There just isn’t another fun and easy way to share 450 photos of the holidays with friends and family, comments, notes, and all. If there is at least, I don’t know of it. I was/am a beta-tester of Shutterbook.com whose founding principle is solid, but certain things seem weak even though this was clearly modeled after Flickr:
- With every page reload I’m hounded to upgrade to their Full account and I have to dismiss the dialog. What? What jackass thought of interupting my visit with a dialog box ON EVERY PAGE LOAD? They may be desperate for users to upgrade but it should be done with a convincing and provocative set of features that make you WANT to upgrade, not necessarily to beat you senseless into submission. UPDATE: It seems they got their head out of their arse and removed this annoying dialog nag.
- Each set has a limit of 150 photos. What? Why? People have 2gig Compact Flash cards these days, how many of them only take 150 images. I’m not alone apparanetly. It seems to be because of possible 56k users. OK, but why not break it into subpages instead of showing 450 images on one page/at a time?
- No Notes feature. One of the most salient things for me on Flickr is being able to put funny comments, almost as thought bubbles, for most images. Did Shutterbook think this was bloat on Flickr’s part?
- The nice thing is that they do give your own subdomain name. It’s certainly easy to remember i.e. http://swl.shutterbook.com - UPDATEFlickr has this as well but with a longer address e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/username
- It’s certainly feels faster/more responsive than Flickr
More to come on this later…
But in case I don’t get another post in before the witching hour at Midnight, a happy, safe, and healthy new year to all!
