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From , former About.com Guide

The Bottom Line
Flickr is a whole community of photo albums. You can create your own photo album and then you can link to the photo albums of your friends and family. Uploading your photos is easy and can be done with digital cameras, camera phones and even through email.
Pros
  • Upload using camera phones, digital cameras, email or upload tools
  • Part of Yahoo so signing up is easy if you have a Yahoo username
  • Password protect your photo album if you want to
  • Share with your friends and family and let them post comments
  • Free! A basic account is free.
Cons
  • Pro accounts cost about $2/mo
Description
  • People can leave comments on your photos. Now you, and your friends can add a little story.
  • Change photo sizes. Thumbnail, medium and large.
  • Upload photos from your camera phone or by email. Also from your computer or digital camera.
  • Use a different privacy and comment level on each photo.
  • Notes and tags can also be added to photos on top of just comments.
  • Notes, tags and comments are all searchable.
  • Organize your photos into photo sets to make finding them easier.
Guide Review - Flickr
This is a unique photo hosting and sharing service. You can link to the photo albums of your friends and family so you will have their photos linked from your album.

Upload your photos easily with the photo upload tools provided. You can upload your photos with a digital camera, camera phone, through email or with the photo upload tools provided.

Go to your friends photo albums and post comments. Let them post comments on your photo album too.

Edit your photos too. Flickr comes with an editing tool that you can use right on their site.

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