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How do you manage thousands of images and how do you share them with the world? More importantly how do you share them with family in an easy-to-use way? Now throw in Geotagging and you have a whole new set of problems!  Oh, I forgot to mention, I want these photos easily downloaded and synced with Facebook.

I have the following accounts online for photo galleries: Mobile Me, Flickr, and Kodak.  I only have a Kodak because of our Kodak Digital Photo Frame. Mobile Me is cool, but rarely has support for embedding in WordPress and also lacks the ability to map photos based on geodata and cannot talk with Facebook.  Flickr has an amazing amount of features and maps my photos.

What I really like is the current theme we have for our website, it is The Seven Five theme.  It is very easy to use and clean.  One feature is the Flickr integration, but I was not happy with that layout so much but it does have good Twitter and RSS feeds built-in.  So I started looking for new themes that had better Flickr integration or perhaps Flickr embedding.  All I could find were sites that demonstrated a Flickr plugin that did not do 100% of what I needed.  Most importantly I was trying to find a way to get my Flickr map on my site so people could see our pictures based on the GPS coordinates from our awesome new Sony Cybershot HX5V Camera.  I also wanted the ability to have my uploaded photos also update Facebook so my friends and family could see the new pictures added.  Embedding all of this on one single site just became nearly impossible.

So, I finally decided to just link out the Flickr content and utilize the Flickr site instead.  It is way more robust and with my PRO account I can upload high quality images and allow people to download them if they choose, one nice feature of Mobile Me.

Click on the links above and checkout what I am talking about.