hosted photo galleries w/ embeddable slideshows (flickr, picasa)

[sdsumike619]

I'm trying to set up an embeddable slideshow that I can embed on several website. Flickr seemed to work well, but they don't give you much in terms of configuration, or options for the embedded show. For example, I get complaints "it goes by too fast" etc..

Are there any hosted galleries which will give me (or the user) a lot of control when viewing an embeddable slideshow?

All I know of is Picasa and Flickr, and they aren't helping much

[hech54]

It depends on what sites you wish to embed. You could make your own slideshow, set the photo duration yourself, convert it to xvid, divx etc etc and upload to a site like:
http://www.zshare.net/
The above site and some others like it allow you to "share" the video on sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter.

[sdsumike619]

Zshare appears to be a file sharing/storage site. This is not what I'm looking for. For storage though, I use Amazon S3 and highly recommend it. Anyways, to be more clear, I mentioned sites like Flickr and Picasa because they enable me to continue adding photos to the slideshow as I acquire them. What I'm essentially doing is making a testimonials slideshow and add to it as I get more slides. Then the embedded slideshow will be always up to date wherever it's shown. Does it make more sense? The problem with Flickr is that there isn't a lot of obvious controls for the viewer to slow it down, etc in order to read the text.