Most of us take digital photos and post them online, but we don’t all use the same services to host our photos. So while I may be able to remember how to find Marc’s photos from Tomales Bay on Kodak’s service, or navigate from my Flickr photoset to Saida’s Flickr pics, it’s impossible to get to Marc’s other photo albums on Kodak without logging in (which means you need an account there).

But what I’d really like is to be able to throw those three URL’s into some sort of picture masher that shows them all together, and which knows enough about how each service works to let me navigate to other albums, so I don’t have to remember who uses what service, or save those “view my photos” emails forever. Basically, a meta photo-sharing service. Is this already out there somewhere?

One simple hack would be for (e.g.) Flickr to let you add URL bookmarks alongside photosets - that way I could point to other (both internal and external) related photos from any set of my own. For that matter, I should be able to add “friends” or “contacts” from _outside_ of Flickr as well as inside. That would really make the network grow.