Picture storage web site? But not flickr or picasa!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291033

by yradunchev • 16 years ago

5 19 16 years ago

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Any good site for free pictures upload & organize & sharing that is NOT connected with Yahoo (Microsoft) or Google?

http://imgur.com was created for Digg and Reddit about a year ago. It's really simple to use and recently has seen some new features, like albums. I'm not sure if there are privacy settings of any sort, since I haven't uploaded anything recently, with the new revision of the service.

qeorge• 16 years ago

As I understand it, its privacy by obscurity. There's no search, so unless you share the URL or its discovered, it would be private. That may or may not work for you.

They have a $3/month plan that gives you flickr like features (large uncompressed images, unlimited storage), and an API (free, but no commercial use w/o consent). Looks pretty solid if you're intent on avoiding a large company.

yradunchev7• 16 years ago

i like it. I will give it a try. very thanks!

mahipal• 16 years ago

It does strip off the metadata embedded in the picture files, so there is some anonymity added there.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy...

aeontech• 16 years ago

photobucket?

If you're not adamant about 'free', zenfolio [http://www.zenfolio.com/zf/pricing.aspx] is very nice, and quite affordable.

ElbertF• 16 years ago

If he doesn't like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google he sure isn't going to like News Corp. That and Photobucket is a bucket of crap.

petervandijck• 16 years ago

I believe NewsCorp just sold Photobucket?

kwiat• 16 years ago

zooomr.com is worth a try. 23hq maybe too. tried photobucket?

yradunchev7• 16 years ago

zooomr.com is currently not open for registrations - they will be soon. I will keep an eye on it.

pinksoda• 16 years ago

Why did you put "Yahoo (Microsoft)"

Yahoo doesn't own Microsoft.

yradunchev7• 16 years ago

Microsoft owns Yahoo. And thats enough for me to stay away form Yahoo. But thats just me. Everyone is free to decide whats good for him...

teilo2• 16 years ago

That's news to all the Yahoo shareholders.

srslydude• 16 years ago

I'm sorry that Yahoo hasn't invested enough in evangelists to stop people like you from spreading FUD like this.

* Yahoo established a relationship with Microsoft. The relationship involves refactoring both Bing and Yahoo Search to use the same web index.

* The crawler, storage and serving infrastructure for web indexes are capital intensive. It has nothing to do with technology -- it amounts to buying up farmlands in Idaho to store millions of computers.

* Hence, it's simply about whoever has the largest pile of cash. Since Yahoo's pile of cash is tiny compared to Google, the ONLY way to stop Google from a monopoly is Microsoft.

* This lets Yahoo concentrate on improving search outside of the boring parts of search. They're calling this the "death of the 10 blue links". If you see yahoo search today, they're ahead of Google on this.

* Outsourcing capital-intensive parts allows Yahoo to innovate on things that they are VERY good at: content optimization, display advertising, and editorial content.

* Thanks to this deal, Yahoo also now owns 100% of the display advertising market outside of doubleclick. This includes all Microsoft properties. What's important to note is that Facebook has a display deal with Microsoft till 2011.

I hope that makes it clearer. Yahoo is not MS's bitch. MS is not Yahoo's bitch. This is a strategic partnership. This happens in business.

teilo2• 16 years ago

I know it's not free, but I use and love SmugMug. Granted it is targeted toward amateur and pro photographers.

It's only $40 a year. The galleries look awesome. There are no ads. Unlimited storage. No limits on image sizes. Galleries can be viewed as a slide show. There's an iPad app (Meh).

You can also upgrade to a pro-level account and actually sell your pics for a profit, as digital assets, prints, or merchandise.

yradunchev7• 16 years ago

thanks. sounds good - $40/y is not that much, it's almost free. I think I will try it.

dhess• 16 years ago

Another vote for SmugMug. Pro accounts can also do custom homepage design, you can create a CNAME for a domain you own that points to your SmugMug homepage, the forums are great, and they offer an extra-cost "vault" feature for backing up RAW images or other originals.

Picture storage web site? But not flickr or picasa!

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