Written by Found this link through digg.com this afternoon. For those of us that sell photos online through smugmug.com this is absolutely GREAT news. Especially those of us that take portraits for family reunions, etc…
Here's the link
http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2007/05/27/smugmug-rolls-out-islands-feature/
And here's a quote from the page. The rest of it is a very good read.
The idea of “Islands” came about starting with this 28-page-thread in the SmugMug forums discussing the need for a way to stop making images stored in SmugMug Google-able as well as Keyword-searchable from the main site. The reason for this, as some concerned posters pointed out, is that it made it very easy for strangers (and some perverts) to hop on to Google or SmugMug and search for something like “children” and get back results showing some user’s children.
This is absolutely great news for those of us that use smugmug. I've been rather concerned about this as well since I noticed that there was a cheerleader shot on my commercial smugmug site that was consantly being viewed. Some of my clients don't prefer passwords on their galleries, but at the same time, this has always concerned me. This is one of the many reasons why I love smugmug so dang much.
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