I have been using Flickr for the past 3 years and am very happy with their services.Yup, I am still to purchase a pro account as I am not such an avid photographer.
While preparing the header for this blog I chanced to used the photo-editor provide by Flickr. The earlier version was this was a very crude one with minimal features like resizing etc. Now Flickr has tied up with Picnik. This software allows you to edit pictures online.
It starts with a nice progress bar which displays a list of messages like "Planting trees", "sprinkling due" etc. It takes quite some time even on a broadband connection when it loads he first time. Successive loads are fairly quick.
You have access to basic image editing tools available to you. With these you can edit, crop and touch up images. You can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel.
You also have an option to take an image and apply some filters to it. Most filters here can only be available with a pro account. I doubt a pro-Flickr account also qualifies for a pro-Picnik account.
Picnik provides services with other online system also. Its a nice business model for an online product company. Picnik provides its services separately but it has also tied up with other companies to get additional revenue. A tie-up with the likes of Flickr and Facebook is beneficial from a marketing point of view also.
New age business models like the one Picnik is using are worth writing a book upon.
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