Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

One of the complaints that I've heard leveled against Flickr is that people need to sign up for a Flickr account in order to see private photos. To me, that actually makes a lot of sense, because if they don't have an account, how is Flickr supposed to know what they're permitted to do? But I clearly am not the target user in this case, and of course, Flickr's put together a solution anyway. Using the new Guest Pass feature, you can generate a URL that will give visitors specific permissions to see a particular set and optionally all of your photos private to friends/family. You also have the power to revoke guest passes, or track usage of particular ones, so you'll know if a guest pass URL leaks out and be able to stop random copying-and-pasting strangers from using it.

Click the "Share this set" button at the top of any of your private sets to start playing around, or wander over to this guest pass that I created on one of my sets. Kick off your shoes and make yourself at home! It's the guestly thing to do.

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