Following Kate‘s advice, I created an account in flickr, the photo sharing website. My photostream is rcasero
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rcasero/
Photos can be uploaded and organised from the Desktop Flickr Organizer in Ubuntu. This is convenient if you have a large photo archive in a local hard drive. Although the 100 MB/month upload limit of a free account is clearly insufficient for any serious usage, upgrading to a Pro Account is only $25/year.
The photos I uploaded (to the free account) seemed to be resized to a maximum side length of 1024 pixel. I don’t know whether this would be the case with the Pro Account, that has a limit of 20 MB per photo (a 3888 x 2592 JPEG typically takes up 2.4 MB to 4.0 MB).
I could also post a photo directly to my WordPress blog from the flickr website. Unfortunately, the web interface doesn’t seem to have an option to submit a set of photos in the same post.
Flickr is integrated within facebook too. You can import the flickr URL from your facebook profile, and whenever you upload photos to your flickr account, your facebook history will show an entry with a link to the photos.
Update (15/04/2009): I got a Pro Account a few days ago, but the upload service is terrible in my experience. Whether using the web interface or an external program, the connection crashes so often that it is virtually useless.
Update (19/04/2009): Uploads using the flickr web interface seem to have improved. Still some crashes, but quite usable. Trying to upload from F-Spot or Desktop Flickr Organizer hardly ever works, though.
Update (02/07/2009): The upload problem is a known “Export to flickr” bug that has to do with the MTU. To fix it, you need to change the MTU. In Ubuntu, you can use the menu System -> Preferences -> Network Connections. Say you are connected via an Ethernet cable. Then go to Wired, select “Auto eth0″, and click on Edit. The “Editing Auto eth0″ dialog has a tab “Wired”, where you can select the MTU. Change the size to e.g. 1450 bytes, and it should work.
yay welcome to flickr
the Pro account doesn’t resize photos so they are all the originals – good for when you want to let people download your photos, eg our wedding pics… it also gives you unlimited uploads.
Not being able to blog a set of photos is one thing that annoys me about flickr – but you can do each photo separately by going to “all sizes” and then the size you want to blog, and then copy the html to your blog.