I've been beta testing a new photo sharing service, fotonauts, for several weeks now.Now, you may be thinking "Oh no, not another photo sharing website", after all there's quite a few successful photo based communities out there already. But, fotonauts is well worth a look, because not only is it nice and unique looking, it does have some rather snappy and easy to use features.
For example, if you already have a ton of photos on flickr, you won't have to upload them to fotonauts because you can integrate your flickr account in fotonauts. This means you can quickly create public or private fotonauts albums, mostly by dragging and dropping with a mouse.
Once you've put together a nice album using your photos, someone else's photos, or a mix of the two, that album will automatically appear on the fotonauts website. Plus, you can grab a widget for that album, so that you can display a cool looking slide show on your website or blog.
Easy Integration
Fotonauts also optionally and easily integrates with Wikipedia, and Google Maps. Meaning that you can tie in some meaningful information to a photo without having to spend ages typing it yourself.
I metioned earlier that you can include other people's photos in any album you create. This works by a search feature which will hunt for photos on flickr which have an approprite licence, e.g. Creative Commons licence.
You can set-up an album so that only you can edit and amend it, or so that any other fotonaut members can colaborate and add photos to your album.
The service is still under beta testing, but you can ask for an invite here.
Slide show
To see a working example of a slide show see this post.
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