Recently, I've been receiving a lot of links to photo galleries where I was at an event and people have taken photos. My friends aren't very tech savvy so photo gallery usage is fragmented amongst them (picasa, facebook, fotki, kodakgallery, etc...).<p>I want to save these galleries in a centralized place online. I want to put in a url of a gallery I want to keep. Not just simply a bookmark, but the service should rip the photos and store it. As it stands right now, I'll probably never revisit the photo gallery or I'll have to come up with a way to rip it myself.<p>Most photosharing sites are about sharing not consuming or 'collecting'. I think this would be a great idea for a service, something akin to friendfeed but photos based. Is there such a service already? If not I think it would make a great company simply from solving a problem standpoint not necessarily a business plan one.<p>Thoughts or suggestions on such a service?
I'm not sure there is a good one. Generally, other people's photographs are their property, so scraping them would raise a whole bunch of problems if you have another person's photograph that they don't want you to have. Sounds silly, since you'd be in the photographs, but the site would get a lot of takedown requests. Not that YouTube doesn't, but you get the idea. I'm sure someone's done it though, I just don't know who.
Most pictures I've seen hosted on SmugMug and Flickr are either rights reserved or non-commercial CC. "Consolidating" them into another site will eventually anger the wrong type of people.