Free stuff. I love it!!

I'm quite well known in our offices for my love of free stuff.
Only today in the canteen did our group technical director stand startled as I threw myself past him to pick up a deserted 10p under a table!
The great girls in our promotions department always keep me in my mind when there's a freebie going and I can't resist tasting the free samples in the supermarkets, even if it is something I wouldn't usually eat!

I don't though just love free stuff on a personal basis, I love to use free stuff in my work too.
Some of the best sites on the web today can provide you with content for your site, content that elsewhere would cost hundreds if not thousands of pounds.

Flickr is an absolute dream. You can create groups and collections on there of your favourite pictures and then display them direct in your site through RSS feeds, their particularly good slideshows or indeed use the Flickr API's to develop your own Flickr based tools.
By setting up a group on flickr you can also allow other people to display their images in your group, and if you set out your terms correctly and ensure you give the rightful owners of the pics credit, you can often get them to agree to have those pics displayed on your site too.

YouTube is another great site. I'm sure we've all browsed youtube on numerous occasions. It's a great source of video content, full of funny, wacky and sometimes disturbing clips. However amongst the madness there is a lot of serious content on youtube.
If you are setting up a site based around a particular topic you can quite easily find accompanying videos on youtube that you can embed easily into it, there are instructional videos on most subjects there. Search them out and use them, that's why they're there!