I've uploaded a bunch of old photos to my Flickr site and added a Flickr Flash "badge" to this blog's sidebar (just below my Last.fm music tracks list).
I only had a couple images up there, so I really didn't know too much about the interface, but the more I use Flickr, the more I learn about it and like it. I like the photo sets, tagging photos, and the interface. People can also leave comments and notes on your photos. There's also a lot that you can customize in the privacy section in your profile: I can specify who I want to be able to see my photos, order prints, leave comments, etc... You can also specify a license on your photos (for the pros out there). There's also a great community/exploration aspect to it that I haven't really delved into yet.
Previously, I'd been just using the form to upload photos, but I'd strongly recommend downloading "Uploadr", a small program that resides on your machine (for XP and Mac) that does the job a hundred times faster and gives you more information.
If you look at your photos in the archive and/or calendar, you can look at when the photos were taken and it shows a nice calendar view. I've gone back and looked up every old photo's metadata (if there is any) to get the exact date and time correctly, so it's cool to see that on the calendar view.
I'm going to try to write descriptive titles and/or descriptions and tags, so I can remember the context of the photo. I will be putting more up soon, but since I have a free account, I can only upload 20MB of photos a month (I'm also limited to only 3 photo sets, which are very cool, too).
I used to have a decent point-and-shoot digital camera, but it got stolen from the luggage on a flight, so I'm sans-camera at the moment. There are some great photos at Flickr, and using it more, it makes me want a Digital SLR camera even more (the Nikon D70 is the one I wanted a while back).
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