I do enjoy a good photo slide show every once and a while (you only need to look at my myspace and facebook to realize that) but I have always been aggravated with having to create slideshows from third party sites that I don't particularly like. With Facebook, you don't have any other option, but every where else it is very frustrating. So I finally took a look at SlideFlickr, one of several sites that allows you to create slide shows directly from flickr using a flickr group, individual user or flickr set (they should have incorporated tags). This is not particularly interesting obviously, but it raised a question for me that I figured I would share, why doesn't flickr allow users to do this in house? I understand that flickr is not photobucket etc, but thats just the point. Many of the images that people share on flickr could be relevant to their personal website or blog, rather then just myspace. Flickr does allow you to create flash badges, but thats hardly the same as a slideshow. You can view sets as a slideshow within the site so I wonder why they have not included this functionality. It seems that generally they are a little sketchy about having users share photos on other sites. You can only get the necessary embed code if you click on the 'all sizes' tab above your photo and they have posted strict rules about not modifying the code so that the photo doesn't link back to flickr. In some ways, this is a smart choice, probably why flickr has not become photobucket. But give us slideshows! Okay, thats all, I feel better.