i don’t know about you, but as soon as i read about the possibility that micro$oft would take over yahoo, i began to search for an alternative to flickr.com (part of yahoo) to host my photos.

there’s google’s picasa, of course, but i’ve always found it appallingly slow and it seems to insist on running programs on my computer to inventarise and manage all the images on my hard drives. this i don’t want. i just want somewhere to put my photos where anyone (i choose) can get at them.

but there’s 23hq.com. i’d never heard of it before but it seems to have all the main features a modest user of flickr like me would need. there isn’t an API, which means little chance of swish facebook applications, but there is an RSS feed and even a wordpress plugin called ‘23hq integrator‘ (which i have yet to test).

23hq is also danish, which somehow feels like a breath of confidence-inspiring fresh air.

and … del.icio.us is also part of yahoo. now the search for an alternative to del.icio.us …