Photo Sharing & Blogging with Your iPhone

Posted on April 29, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General

The strive for publicity and public recognition is something natural for people. That’s why people make photos. Of course, you can send the good shots to all your contacts from your iPhone’s contact book, but it would be much easier and useful to publish such shots in a your own blog so that a lot of other users besides your contacts could see them.

For these reasons there are mobile photoblogging services out there. I’ll speak about the world’s most popular one – Flickr.

The first thing you need to do if you want to use flickr is setting up Yahoo ID. The photo blog doesn’t work with other mail services.

The next step is registering at flickr.com. By the way, the login is not anyhow connected with that of your Yahoo ID. Each new user is given its unique email address which can be accessed at Your account => Email => Your Flickr upload email. You don’t have to keep that email in mind as you are planning to post photos only in blog, but not on your personal flickr page.

After the previous steps are completed you need to set the photos’ redirect to the blog. Cross-posting settings are located at Your account => Extending Flickr => Your blogs.

I’m absolutely sure that similar services will spring up like flies in the near future.

Why? They are very simple to use – you don’t have to install any kind of software, set parameters manually. Moreover, the audience is likely to appreciate the possibility to post photos straight off: make a shot – make a post, and you don’t have to rush to your PC with a USB cable and copy the photos on the hard drive. At the same time, the pleasure of having a personal photo blog is not incredibly expensive – all you need to pay for is the GPRS traffic (or other traffic according to which Internet connection plan you use.

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