This is a link to a simple photos uploaded to Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/29403741@N04
My analysis of the http://flickr.com site is divided into positive and negative experiences with the site.
Positive Experiences:
Home Page is simple with navigation at the top left utilizing a drop down menu box for the five options. On the right side at the top is the Sign in, Help, Sign out and Search options. The section below greets the user sign in name, which is immediately followed by in red lettering a security notice warning. The warning notifies the user of this Web tool of the phishing technique being employed to acquire user’s credentials.
Then on the left side of the web page body it displays the sites news, advertises for upgrades to its Pro version of the site for a monthly fee, other advertisement and offers tips on how to upload photos from your cell phone. These are all good marketing campaigns. To the direct right of these displays is the option to upload photos, review your photo stream, review everyone’s public uploads, and review your groups.
The bottom portion of the site holds another set of navigation options somewhat different from the navigation at the top of the page. As part of this navigation is the Flickr Blog, About, Terms of Service, Privacy disclaimer, Copyright policy, Report Abuse options.
Negative Experiences:
The duplication of navigation options is not available on all sub-pages for instance under the Organize sub page offer no quick way to exit to the Home page or other pages except for the manipulation of the URL or Back button. Additionally, the duplicate navigation only helps balance the page when minimal information is displayed on a sub-page. The upload of images speed is depended upon the type of Internet connection. I do not recommend dial-up when uploading images due to bandwidth and potential time out anomalies.
Overall the Flickr.com Web 2.0 tool is an adequate for uploading, editing and sharing photos and videos. Being security minded, I prefer not to place my personal information, photos, videos, and/or any other data on an organization’s server that I have no knowledge about, this includes the physical country, address and phone number of the organization.
Picasa by Google is a better intuitive product for Mac, Linux and Windows.
http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html
