Photobucket
Photobucket, created in 2003, is currently one of the most popular methods for storing photos on the internet. Its popularity is due to a variety of reasons, but the most prevalent one being because it is more catered towards casual users.
How Photobucket works
Photobucket hosts both videos and pictures, but because of the popularity of youtube, photobucket users rarely upload videos. Photos up to 1MB or of a certain wallpaper size resolution can be uploaded for free to photobucket, and one of the main advantages of photobucket is that it offers a free 500 MB of hosting space, more than twice that of their competitor Flickr. In addition, unlike Flickr there is no limit to how many photos can be uploaded as long as the cumulative file size does not exceed 500 MB. The layout of photobucket is unfortunately still unpopular, but the services offered by photobucket are much more than most competing file hosting sites can claim.
Their relative popularity allowed them to develop the tools necessary to connect directly with sites like ebay (this is a popular option for people that sell things on ebay), neopets (a popular option for children and for parents that want to monitor what photos their child can and cannot send) as well as facebook (a popular option for everyone that has a facebook account and wants to upload photos to that. Photobucket also offers users options to share photos by email, and online game. They operate a few subsidiary companies and services, one of which is the website tinypic.com. This website allows users to upload photos without the need of an account. All that is needed is to type in a captcha.
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