I’m not sure what part of my brain will not allow me to pronounce Flickr properly, but it seems to be missing or failing. It’s not the selective memory portion of my melon because when I say, Flicker-r, instead of Flickr people look at me like I’m stupid. Who’d want that? It’s at the point where my wife is even correcting me on a regular basis. My friend, Nate, just let my pronunciation slide for a long time, knowing full well I meant Flickr when I was saying Flicker-r. What a gracious friend. I need to start pronouncing it correctly, or face ridicule.

My short comings aside, I’m officially a believer; I’m sold on “Flickr” (see that, I can write it correctly.) Truth be told I wasn’t really sold until I experienced the web application as a pro user. If you care, this is why I’m hooked.

1. Robust web based photo management from anywhere.
2. Using the Flickr Uploadr tool makes uploading photos a snap.
3. Having a second location bedsides my hard drive to backup my photos is downright bad! (the good bad).
4. Sharing photos is easier with Sets, Tags, and slideshows.
5. The ability to control who is looking at what photos is handy.
6. Photo taxonomy for labeling and searching.
7. Manual photo production as well as on the fly photo manipulation.
8. The ability to download your photo’s from anywhere with generic sizes readily available. As well as image specific URL’s to view a single image with a web client.
9. Textpattern has a plug-in that enables you to show your Flickr photosets as a gallery directly on your site.
10. Currently all these features only cost me $24.95 a year. Besides web hosting this is the only web-based service I pay for because, holy smokes that’s cheap. Consider this, silly little text characters and a minimal amount of images sent off to Basecamp/Backpack can run you $5 to $12 bucks a month. Flickr lets me send off 2 gigs of information each month. In my mind, there is no comparison between Basecamp/Backpack and Flickr. It makes me think all these simple web applications are way over priced after being a pro user of Flickr. Flickr simply gives more bang for your buck. Well, more than any fee based web application I can think of.