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iphigenie:
Some I have found with various interesting takes

http://www.expono.com/ Interesting features are the facetagging, geotagging, organization and relationship options, editing of meta information and it claims sophisticated groups and permissions

 http://www.ipernity.com/ they dont describe the features much but just looking at the resulting image blogs it might be quite interesting to organise. It's more like a bloggier flickr, and multi lingual. Possibly copies flickr too much.

http://www.dropshots.com/ Simpler looking but seems quite good at organizing.

ourdoings: Self organising site, recommended by one of his authors: "Just use a few hundred images taken with phones or digital cameras and try out OurDoings. They're organized as soon as you upload them. All you do is click calendar icons then "Edit" to add a story to go with a group of pictures. (They're initially grouped by the day they were taken.) You can know in 20 minutes if it's for you: http://ourdoings.com/" (they even have an "upload via dropbox" option, neat idea)

J-Mac:
Really depends on your needs. What are you looking for? If pure sharing is your goal, Flickr is definitely the most ubiquitous site for this. Everyone has heard of it and Flickr has the most users of that ilk.

However if privacy is a concern, just forget Flickr. Your photos can be found and grabbed by anyone on the internet regardless of your privacy settings. Smugmug is the best with privacy I have found. However SmugMug is also considerably more expensive. Photobucket is another possibility. Easy to use, very easy to link to images from there for a blog, etc. And Photobucket, like Flickr, has nice pricing.

Hope this helps!

Jim

Jibz:
However if privacy is a concern, just forget Flickr. Your photos can be found and grabbed by anyone on the internet regardless of your privacy settings.
-J-Mac (December 04, 2009, 11:52 PM)
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That's interesting, I didn't find anything about such problems back when I was first looking at Flickr .. do you have a link to any information about it?

J-Mac:
However if privacy is a concern, just forget Flickr. Your photos can be found and grabbed by anyone on the internet regardless of your privacy settings.
-J-Mac (December 04, 2009, 11:52 PM)
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That's interesting, I didn't find anything about such problems back when I was first looking at Flickr .. do you have a link to any information about it?
-Jibz (December 05, 2009, 05:15 AM)
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Link? No - I'm sure a simple Google search will give you that. I had problems myself. I have a lot of photos of my grandkids there, supposedly set as "private", meaning only people I designate as Friends and Family can see them. Yet I was going through them one day and found a setting where you can see if people have marked any of your photos as their "Favorites". Several of mine had been so marked, but I noticed that all of them were photos where the kids were in their underwear. So I found my way to the user's site and here it was a "restricted" site, meaning it has pictures that, well, let's just say that kids shouldn't see. I had to change my own settings just to view their pics and I found that their albums were made up entirely of sex photos - what you would call soft porn - mixed with pictures of children who are either naked or in underwear. Young kids, like age 2 to 5. I complained to Flickr - nothing. Upon investigating I found that my "private" photos were not really protected but were simply not listed in the "Explore" and similar pages. It was enough that I made sure to remove all pics of my grandchildren unless they are really very fully dressed. And I opened a SmugMug account!

Jim

Jibz:
Thanks for the explanation, that certainly sounds scary .. I'm glad I've never uploaded any pictures of our son at the beach or anything then.

They have a lot of privacy options about who can see your stuff, who can share it etc., I changed them all to nobody but family before I uploaded my first image.

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