bigiain's posterous

Dear lazyweb...

What are the current alternatives to delicious and Flickr?

Instapaper has for me replaced some of what I use delicious for, but it's missing the community/collaborative thing deIcious has, and the tagging. I suspect the collaborative part could be piggybacked onto a social network, some app that leverages my Twitter or Facebook social graph, and the tagging could be partially automated by using something like metaweb, perhaps Google is the right place to expect the solution from? (perhaps they've already solved it and I just dot know about it yet?)

Longer term, what are people considering (or using) in favor of Flickr?

If I just wanted to store photos "in the cloud" I'd just stick them into Amazon S3 and probably serve them out of Cloudfront, but I like a lot of the ancillary stuff Flickr provides, both the onsite stuff like tagging, albums, exif data display, geotagging, default licensing, stats, as well as integration with other tools - iPhoto, various iPhone apps, but also the social and sharing aspect.

I understand Facebook does that well, but I don't want to lock my pictures up with Zuckerberg any more than I want them to go dark when Yahoo needs to do their next round of costcuting layoffs.

So do I give up and admit the Google "wins teh internetz", and throw everything into Picasa ( hoping the Wave fiasco was a one-off, and that the community won't abandon it like Orkut)? Or is there some recently established service all the cool kids know about that I need to get in on? Or is here somebody working on a fascinating new startup that I should be an early adopter of?

I _really_ don't want the answer to be "Facebook", I think I'd rather secede from "Internet communities" than go there...

Big