Site for accepting user photos (crowdsourcing) [closed]

Question

We would like to start accepting user contributed photos for our website and events in our area. Ideally we'd like to be able to say "email uploads@photosite.com" as well as a web interface where users can upload their photos, or perhaps share via facebook etc...

We don't want the photos to be published right away of course, as we'll need to vet and choose the best ones. but we would like them to go directly into our photo account so we can easily publish them. we have both a smugmug account and a flickr account but haven't been able to determine if this can be done and where.

If you have done this in the past please let us know what worked for you, thanks!

Answer 1

Picasa, Facebook and Flickr all offer ways to upload public photos via email.

If you're looking for a simple hosting site to view photos submitted in private, simply adjust the privacy settings for each of these sites.

Answer 2

Your existing SmugMug account has an email upload capacity. You can also put up a very simple web form that uses the API to do an upload. I whipped up something like that for a book we were building using the 3rd party phpSmug wrapper in a couple hours over a weekend.

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Disclaimer: I work for SmugMug.

Answer 3

Wordpress.com allows you to submit posts via email. While it would be a bad idea to publish the submission address, when you receive an email submission you want to publish, you can just forward it there.

Answer 4

This is something called "user generated content"

I know FileMobile has an application that does what you are looking for including pre and post moderation.