Hi cowboy
I too have looked at alot of other products out there and there are a whole range of Flash builder galleries that look attractive with nice layouts and transitions. The difficulty is that you have very little flexibility with the type of file you post and typically you only have the option of thumbnail, picture and click for large. I beleive shozam offers alot more than this.
As a comment to Shozam a suggesttion might be to offer alternatives to the picture left with thumbnails right look. Perhaps options could be:
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Picture left, right, top bottom.
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Thumbnails could be in the format of single column/row, or multi column/row where the default is as now 3 column.
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Details/All Details view could have text right/left/above/below
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I think there is also an opportunity to leave the gallery list as a header row/column while displaying pictures in an album. I think this would help with flexible navigation and respond to cowboy's request above.
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(Now going for it while I am in the groove!) Generate gallery/album/slideshow as flash/html to be called separately I know there is a widgit generation so I believe some of this is possible like the slideshow.
This might really increase the look and feel options for users and add a really usefull upgrade to Shozam
Hope this is useful
Greg