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InsideGoogle: Hello! It’s Google’s picture sharing/blogging/general distribution/chat product: A closer look at Picasa and Hello! which are downloadable clients to share, organize and distribute pictures over a high speed connection.

Flickr (beta) is a great service and is very quickly becoming the photoblogging tool of choice for many bloggers. Very cool features, very zippy application and ease of upload coupled with a relatively usable interface makes this product a winner. Photoblogging is a personal interest and I want to try and understand what makes this product so likeable as compared to, say, Gallery and the places where I think Flickr could improve upon itself. Product features: Easy setup – It is very simple to setup a gallery for yourself, almost instantenous if you dont want to provide much information. I like that. If an online service requires your life’s story for account creation, users are lost. Mostly uncluttered homepage – Though that is quickly changing. The main items of use are clearly visible and easy to find within the thumbnails. Ease of upload and multiple photo upload – Downloadable applications […]

WordPress Plugin Repository: This is a good idea, but I think this needs to be more centralized (and more official) so the content does not get lost if the user decides to shut down their site.

John Battelle’s Searchblog: News: Google Drops The Other Shoe – Google Desktop Search Launches: Search within your computer using Google. This might be invasive to some, but incredibly useful for others. Would you use this desktop search?

IT Kitchen: is a two-week clinic on weblogging and related topics for webloggers. If you want to learn more about blogging, this clinic might be for you. Shelley talks about publishing the wiki under GNU so the information can be re-used.

MtDewVirus >> Comments Posted Elsewhere: A WordPress plugin that allows you to keep a list of comments that you have posted on other blogs. Interesting idea, this has come up before. Another plugin request was for a comment aggregator. This one comes close to that idea.

Eastgate Tinderbox: the tool for notes: Any of my readers use this? Any comments/suggestions? Every feature sounds like something I have been trying very hard to forge out of an amalgamation of weaker tools such as wikis and PIMs.