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This is a list of major photo-sharing websites .
Please note the list is non-exhaustive, but is limited to notable, well known sites .
Comparison of photo sharing websites
Legend:
- File formats: the image or video formats allowed for uploading
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IPTC support: support for the IPTC image header
- Yes - IPTC headers are read upon upload and exposed via the web interface; properties such as captions and keywords are written back to the IPTC header and saved along with the photo when downloading or e-mailing it
- Some - IPTC headers are read but information added via the web interface is not saved back to the IPTC header; or, IPTC headers are lost on resizing
- Tags/keywords: the ability to add to and search by tags or keywords
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Comments: the ability of users to leave comments on the photo
- Yes - full control over who can leave comments (friends, registered users, non-registered users)
- Some - users must register with the website to leave comments
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Rating:
- Yes - star rating: the ability to rate photos numerically, usually on a scale from 1 to 5
- Some - thumbs up/down rating, "mark as favorite", or a rating system accessible only to logged-in users
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Download originals:
- Yes - anyone can download the original photo
- Some - only photos of "pro" members can be downloaded
- Notes/annotations: the ability to overlay textual notes to areas of a photo
- Friendly URLs: human-readable URLs (e.g. /photos/greece_album/athens.jpg) vs. numeric identifiers (MemViewImage.asp?AID=5610943&IID=205062034&INUM=5&ICT=5&IPP=16)
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Subscriptions
- Some - RSS feeds (example) and web interface (example)
- Yes - RSS feeds, web interface, plus photo updates can be sent by e-mail to non-registered members (example)
References
- ^ Alexa Top 500 Sites
- ^ October 19, 2009
- ^ USA Today: May 6, 2008
- ^ flickr FAQ
- ^ flickr FAQ
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
- ^ Fotki
- ^ Fotki Help
- ^ Hi-Media press release February 20, 2008
- ^ ReadWriteWeb: March 24, 2008
- ^ iMGSRC.RU
- ^ Jalbum Forum
- ^ Kodak EasyShare Gallery
- ^ Apple Press Release, 2002
- ^ Photobucket reaches 50M users (as of August 29, 2007)
- ^ paying customers in 2005 -- much has changed since Google acquired them.
- ^ Alexa does not break down rankings for third-level domains. Quantcast lists the picasaweb.google.com domain with a 256 ranking equivilent as of August 2009
- ^ SEC 10-K filing (served over 2M customers as of 2007-12-31)
- ^ a b 315,000 paying customers
- ^ Snapfish.com AboutUs (May 2008)
- ^ Webshots' overview page, 2004
- ^ a b
- ^ Zooomr
- ^ look up of the highest userid numbers as of May 2008
- ^ Source: Woophy
- ^ http://simimg.com/faq.php
- ^ http://simimg.com/faq.php
- ^ Photo Resizer
- ^ 23hq upload options
- ^
- ^ a b c d e f g h tags added via the web interface are not written back to the IPTC header; EXIF and IPTC headers are lost when saving resized versions of the image
- ^ No numeric rating. "Add as favorite" available to logged-in users only.
- ^ Can select among 25 themes, define custom colors, custom CSS (no help on classes or IDs), but not custom HTML
- ^ animated GIF hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ PNG file hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ a b c d no CAPTCHA
- ^ GotSharing offers short-urls at www.gotsharing.com/s/
- ^ Fotki:Its all Free
- ^ animated GIF hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ PNG file hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ GotSharing offers short-urls at www.imagesaved.com/s/
- ^ Fotki:Its all Free
- ^ http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/65935/
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/ If you have a free Flickr account, no one (including you) can access your original file. But if you have a free Flickr account, you'll only see the most recent 200 photos displayed.
- ^ members can mark an image as favorite
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/ If you have a free Flickr account, no one (including you) can access your original file.
- ^ animated GIF hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ PNG file hosted on Fotki.com
- ^ anyone can download photos uploaded by Premium members
- ^ Fotki limits the length of the file portion of the URL to 24 characters
- ^ Fotki: paying users can edit the HTML of their album layout (Co-branding. Non-paying users can only select the photo frame style.
- ^
- ^ Picasa Web Albums
- ^ Picasa Help on Google Groups, Other edits: creating captions (Picasa Help)
- ^ filenames are preserved
- ^ CAPTCHA-protected for anonymous users
- ^ both star-rating and thumbs up/down
- ^ a b c files get renamed to unique ID
- ^ Only supports EXIF at the moment
- ^ Atpic: "a tag may take up to 24 hours to appear on the document's page"
- ^ Atpic: geotagging is cumbersome in that lat/lon must be determined on a separate page then copy&pasted to the picture page; there is no textual searching for locations
- ^ An Atpic photo with a title, placed in a named gallery, has a numeric URL
- ^ public galleries can be rated
- ^ dotPhoto: Visitors can't download originals
- ^ No support for description or tags
- ^ The user can add tags, but they are not displayed on the photo page
- ^ imeem: IPTC keywords or captions were not imported upon upload
- ^ Lifephoto limits the length of the file portion of the URL
- ^ "To be able to leave a comment please Log in or Sign up."
- ^ only Pro or Premium photos can be star-rated; rating by members or anonymous users
- ^ attempting to download a the full-size version of a photo produces a Flash file of the photo and the message "This photo may only be saved by friends"
- ^ CAPTCHA-protected for anonymous users
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