new flickr feature

Have you wanted to use Flickr to share photos, but you don't want everyone who has an internet connection to view them? Flickr now has a solution Your family or friends do not have to be members of flickr to view your photos - you just have to invite them to view your photos.

This is from FlickrBlog

Guest Pass
Ever wanted to share private photos with friends and family without making them go through the rigamarole or opening their own Flickr account? Yes? You have? Sorry - I can't hear you ... never mind: we'll just assume you have wanted that. Well now you can!!!

You can go to any of your sets and click "Share this set" to create a guest pass. Enter up to 50 email address and choose whether you want the recipients to also have access to other friends and family photos in your photostream and boom: it's sharetastic. Guest passes work with secret links so you can send the link yourself or have us send it for you. When you want to reign things in a bit, you can expire the guest pass at any time.

We're especially happy about this one since it's the second most requested feature of all time (and work has already begun on the number one most requsted feature - we'll eventually get 'em all).