Actually the best about Flock is the easy ability to blog web snippets with a few clicks. The del.icio.us implementation could have be done better – regarding the tags pre-selection and the usability in general. Otherwise, I am looking forward that also other photo sites, namely Zooomr, are embedded. And Plazes, of course!;)

Here a blogging example:

GRAND BLANC, MICH. — Tiger Woods closed in on his second straight victory with a big assist from a fan Saturday, birdieing two of his last three holes for his third straight 6-under 66 and a two-stroke lead in the Buick Open.

Newsvine – Woods Leads Buick With Fan’s Assistance

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I will migrate all my stuff from my current blog here to my shiny new WordPress blog, which then should also be in the center of my website. So far, I am really impressed about the easy setup – took me indeed only 5 minutes – and the speed of the backend.

I just signed up as # 68,163 to Martin Varsavsky‘s FON community. I waited for a long time as the router seemed with EUR 25.00 plus transportation /VAT not that cheap. With the new pricing of EUR 5.00 plus transportation / VAT – thanks to FON’s incredible EUR 18m funding – also I am convinced. Not that I think that the business model will work out to be extremely succesful because for this the FON hotspots so far, such as the 572 in Switzerland, are by far too decentralized – only a few being in city centers -, not easily to detect without a Wifi connection and worldwide too many own city Wifi projects are on their way – without FON. I am still waiting for the big deals with ISPs here in Europe, such as T-Mobile or Swisscom – after FON already announced some in France, Spain and Sweden.

However, I am excited how FON will develop and if they will reach their goal of 1m active hotspots end of 2007. Hopefully, these get more traffic than ours at the office and enough Bills will come up to make the business model work.

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I started online photo sharing in 2001 with Pixum, a German photo service site, after I bought my first digital camera. Missing more contemporary features beyond albums and unlimited storage – as long as you have a look at every album once in a while -, I switched to Flickr mid of last year. From the beginning I tried to avoid the pro account, and thus struggled with limited monthly upload capacity (20 MB) and many other limitations. Of these I did not bore in mind that only the 200 most recent ones are shown in the photostream – hope they do not delete the others after 90 days of inactivity.

However, after recognizing this today I took the decision to look at Zooomr a bit closer again. The team around the 18-year-old Kristopher Tate took the basic ideas of Flickr and all its clones further with many enhancements, such as geotagging, trackbacks for single pictures, etc. They combined these in a very easy to use multilingual user interface. So, my decision to move over to Zooomr was even made easier after having read that they give all bloggers a free pro account.

But beyond all the praise for Zooomr, the site still needs some development when it comes to more user-friendly upload possibilities beside the web-based one, easier to understand geotagging – I still have to figure it out for my pics (too bad it is not yet integrated in Plazes ;) -, and albums. Therefore, I am really looking forward to Zooomr 2.0.

Find below a picture two weeks ago, when my university colleagues Harald and Thomas visited me here in St.Gallen.

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