flickr

flickr is designed simply to share images. You can join, upload, share and view... It is simple and effective. It also has a cool blog, which I have found a nice light hearted change.. as ironically the blog is primarily based on images rather than opinion... You can also create tag lists of photos, favourites etc, but you need to be careful to take into consideration, how many different types of sites your going to commit yourself to.

flickr does have the many of the common adaptations of modern creating personalised merchandise such as photo books (which I think are really cool), simply printing out your photos, creating large prints, calendars etc. However, I am not sure how New Zealand friendly production is...

flickr would be useful if you were wanting links from blogs, wikis or to share your images around the world.

Check out the Whangaparaoa College flickr pages...

I have one word of warning, which I think will be a regular from me, when ever you are choosing to share personal items, such as photos etc, think very carefully how you label/tag them, and what peronsal information you are prepared to share with the rest of the world. People don't realise how easy it is to track information and it would be very scary to find out someone you don't know, knows far too much information about you, as well as what you look like...