[magic5227]

If only one of these online services could import all meta-data from iPhoto or similar apps.

Moving to most of the current cloud services requires basically ditching years of organizing and meta-data work. So for people like me it becomes just backup.

[pavel_lishin]

I've given up on all of that. All my pictures are on /disk/camera/{year}/{year}{month}{day}-{eventName}/IMG_1294.jpg

I've thought about cramming metadata in there, somehow - text files on the disk? Metadata in the file itself? - but nothing ever seemed right, and like hell will I let some other application move/copy my files over and maintain its own weird binary database that I'm likely to never be able to read again as soon as my license expires or if I switch operating systems.

[yatsyk]

Lightroom syncs photos and metadata with Flickr out of the box.