smugMug Maps
I’ve never heard of smugMug before, or if I have it was in a caffeine-induced frenzy of web-browsing. I probably said, “Oh, neat, another photo-sharing site” and moved on. However, based on the recent fracas regarding Flickr requiring Yahoo! accounts and the possible integration of Yahoo-nes to the otherwise clean & functional flickr interface, smugMug looks like a nice option.
However, I recently came across their GoogleMaps integration, smugMaps. It’s very much like geobloggers, except geobloggers seems to have gone off the deep-end on functionality, widgets, and whatnot. They even describe (though with much detail left out), how to mix-up your own geo-tagged smugMug images.
Reading the “about us” page on smugMug makes me think the site should be called “smugInternetBarons”, but I digress. Their self-touted wealth may prevent them from ‘cashing in’ later to some company like Yahoo! (or MSN) and instead just continue as an independent, fun photo-sharing service.
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August 30th, 2005 at 10:15 pm (#)
What’s interesting at smugmug is the ability (at the pro/$99 level) to order photos in a variety of formats. As the photographer, you can set the markup on the photos, and pocket a goodly portion of it.
Not that i’m looking to offset college costs or anything.
They are certainly popular with the ‘Petnax’ folks over at dpreview.
August 31st, 2005 at 6:51 am (#)
In general smugMugs seems to be a little sleeker due to the fact that all members must be paying members. It is a low entry fee, but restricts usage to people who are more invested in making it a community.
And those ‘Petnax’ folks are a crazy bunch!
October 26th, 2005 at 6:17 pm (#)
If you like Smugmug Maps you may like the project we just launched:
http://www.panoramio.com