How to Use Flickr With Your Mobile Photo Blog
Flickr is one of the most popular photo aggregator services in the world. Luckily, Flickr caters to its computer-bound users as well as mobile members.
With Flickr, members can do everything that they do from their computer from their smartphones, like upload photos, browse members albums, and post their Flickr photos to their blogs. Let's take a look at some of the features that Flickr offers mobile bloggers.
Flickr For Your Blog
Blogger, Typepad, Moveable, LiveJournal, WordPress, and other blog users can enable automatic posting to their blogs when they upload a photo to their Flickr account via mobile or via Web. First, you'll sign into your Flickr account and add your blog's URL address, username, and password. Flickr offers premade layouts for each post, or you can design your own.
Custom Email Address
Flickr users who want to update their blog via mobile are assigned a custom email address. If someone hacks into your account, you can change the given email address in seconds with the click of a button.
Add Photo Information
Flickr allows users to add details about a photo before uploading to their account. When adding your mobile photos to Flickr, simply type the title of the picture in the subject line of the email. For the photo's description, type this in the body of the email. To incorporate tags, type the word "tags:" followed by the desired keywords you want to use. This can be done in either the subject line or the body of the email.
Flickr Apps
Depending on the type of smartphone you have, you'll find a Flickr app that will suit your needs. Flickr recommends Flickr for Mobile, Flickr Uploader for Blackberry, ShoZu, and Share Online 3.0.
Mobile Friendly
Since Flickr provides so many capabilities for mobile bloggers and account holders, they would naturally have a mobile-friendly site for these members. If you want to set up everything from your smartphone, head to their mobile site designed with you in mind.