Flickr gives you another reason to build your own property website.
Flickr is one of my favorite online services. If you don’t know what it is, basically it’s one of the biggest photo websites online, owned by Yahoo. I’ve been a customer for over 3 years and it costs be approximately $30/year.
They’ve just released an upgraded web-tool, called an embedded slide-show. It basically allows you to embed a group of photos (or videos) as a slide-show into your own website. It should be interesting to the UK property agent because most of the property websites out there have some type of photo gallery or video gallery of properties.
So my question to you is this: Why are you paying expensive web-development companies to develop something that you should be able to get for free? If the internet teaches us anything about the Web 2.0 movement it is this:
Don’t re-invent the wheel (and pay for that wheel) when you can probably get it straight from the innovators at a much reduced cost.
In this case, that innovator is Flickr and the cost for having your photos in a brilliant photo gallery slide-show just went to 15 pounds per year. Did you pay more for yours? 
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Just curious…why don’t you just use Google Picassa? It’s free and allows you to embed slideshows as well.
Thumbs up for google picassa, this is well kept secret it seems for property agents