Comments on: Photo Sharing Sites Go Unlimited http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/12/19/photo-sharing-sites-go-unlimited/ This is your brain on: Venture Capital and Technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-bleeding2 By: Brian Berliner http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/12/19/photo-sharing-sites-go-unlimited/#comment-6571 Brian Berliner Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:25:49 +0000 http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/12/19/photo-sharing-sites-go-unlimited/#comment-6571 Hi ghaff, Thanks for the Snapfish link. I just took a look at their terms: <blockquote> Snapfish offers free, unlimited storage of your online photos. There is no limit to the number of digital photos you can upload. You can have an unlimited number of albums and photos in your account. We store the hi-res versions of your photos in your account for 3 months (90 days) after the day you upload them to your account. This means that you can order prints, enlargements, Photo CDs, greeting cards and other personalized photo products within the first 90 days. After that, only the low-res photos, suitable for viewing and sharing with friends, as well as for purchasing selected print sizes (4x6", 5x7", wallets) will remain in your online account. [Elsewhere...] Your photos will remain in your Snapfish online account indefinitely, as long as you remain an active member of the service. Active participation in the service is defined as sending in film for developing or purchasing photo merchandise (prints, enlargements, Photo Books, Photo CDs or hi-res downloads) through the website at least once every 365 days. If your account is inactive for a period of 335 days or more, we will email you about the pending deletion of your online photos. At that time, you will have the option to re-activate your account, thereby preserving your online photos. </blockquote> So, SnapFish is FREE but does not save your hi-res photos online indefinitely (only for 90 days). By "active participation", I think they mean that they want you to buy some service each year, like Kodak requires. Yahoo! Photos, by comparison, will store the hi-res photos for FREE indefinitely and Flickr will do so for $25/year. It is true that the various services have certain strenghts with respect to printing and book making, however. Thanks again! -Brian Hi ghaff,

Thanks for the Snapfish link. I just took a look at their terms:

Snapfish offers free, unlimited storage of your online photos. There is no limit to the number of digital photos you can upload. You can have an unlimited number of albums and photos in your account.
We store the hi-res versions of your photos in your account for 3 months (90 days) after the day you upload them to your account. This means that you can order prints, enlargements, Photo CDs, greeting cards and other personalized photo products within the first 90 days.

After that, only the low-res photos, suitable for viewing and sharing with friends, as well as for purchasing selected print sizes (4×6″, 5×7″, wallets) will remain in your online account.

[Elsewhere...]

Your photos will remain in your Snapfish online account indefinitely, as long as you remain an active member of the service. Active participation in the service is defined as sending in film for developing or purchasing photo merchandise (prints, enlargements, Photo Books, Photo CDs or hi-res downloads) through the website at least once every 365 days. If your account is inactive for a period of 335 days or more, we will email you about the pending deletion of your online photos. At that time, you will have the option to re-activate your account, thereby preserving your online photos.

So, SnapFish is FREE but does not save your hi-res photos online indefinitely (only for 90 days). By “active participation”, I think they mean that they want you to buy some service each year, like Kodak requires.

Yahoo! Photos, by comparison, will store the hi-res photos for FREE indefinitely and Flickr will do so for $25/year.

It is true that the various services have certain strenghts with respect to printing and book making, however.

Thanks again!

-Brian

]]> By: ghaff http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/12/19/photo-sharing-sites-go-unlimited/#comment-6570 ghaff Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:58:27 +0000 http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/12/19/photo-sharing-sites-go-unlimited/#comment-6570 Snapfish "by HP" (used to be HP Cartogra--or something lie that) is fairly similar to the Kodak site (which used to be Ofoto). Personally, I use Flickr which has FAR surpassed Snapfish and Kodak. The only reason I keep accounts at the other places is that they all have slightly different printing products and sometimes I want something that only one caries (such as postcards). Snapfish “by HP” (used to be HP Cartogra–or something lie that) is fairly similar to the Kodak site (which used to be Ofoto). Personally, I use Flickr which has FAR surpassed Snapfish and Kodak. The only reason I keep accounts at the other places is that they all have slightly different printing products and sometimes I want something that only one caries (such as postcards).

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