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August 29, 2006

Webshots Redesign Launches, Video Coming

Michael Arrington

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logoCNET owned Webshots, a massive property with 420 million photos, relaunched moments ago with a new interface and a number of feature changes.

The most notable changes are to the limits on photo uploading. Free accounts are now able to upload 1,000 photos plus an additional 100 photos per month (the additional photos are applied retroactively and continue to accrue even if not used). Premium accounts, which are $30 per year, allow for 5,000 initial photos plus 500 more per month. Photos are archived at original resolution, and resized for presentation on the site only if larger than 2400×2400.

In another notable move, Webshots will be allowing users to upload video to their webshots accounts starting in September. Video will be transcoded into Flash video for viewing on the website. Our long-time opinion has been that photo sharing sites needed video as well, to allow people to store vacation and other photos and videos in a single location. Look for this feature eventually on Flickr as well.

Our previous coverge of Webshots is here.

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  1. Startups.in/India

    August 29th, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    The new design very much looks web2.0ish. Nice and clean. The price is also not bad at $30/year. That provides them with sustainable business model as well.

    Nag. B

  2. NeoTechie

    August 29th, 2006 at 5:12 pm

    The best products give a free trials. This product has the potential to land in the hall fame in Web 2.0. Try it while it is still free !

  3. Startups.in/India

    August 29th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Has anyone tried uploading/accessing fotos on WebShots. Other than their homepage/login page etc., there currently seems to be a problem accessing uploading/photos…returns a connection timed out/server not responding. Techcrunched ? ;)

  4. Mike Lane

    August 29th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    Wow that’s awesome. You guys did an article on a photo sharing site that is behind the times :P Smugmug has had google maps geotagging mashup, video uploads, massive bandwidth and storage space (both unlimited for pros), and much more.

    Sorry if I’ve missed any articles that you have done on smugmug. If you haven’t you should maybe give them some love :D

  5. ryan

    August 30th, 2006 at 12:50 am

    They have a layer on top of a Flash ad. Sniffing through the code, they have transparency from a 3rd-party ad server on the Flash embed tag, which I don’t think is common. Does this mean to run a Flash ad on Webshots now, you must have this attribute? Can’t say I would like relying on an ad that could potentially disrupt my users’ experience on the site. Went through their “advertise with us” section and found nothing about this.

  6. /pd

    August 30th, 2006 at 9:15 am

    [OT] - note to Techcrunch editors..

    could you guys please follow transparent edit rules for updates. (Aint that blog ethics ?) This post got updated and lands in my reader and I am unsure what was changed or just a typo/ grammar change ?

    ok ’nuff said , my 2 cents only :)-

  7. Heather Hawkins

    August 30th, 2006 at 9:44 am

    Just wanted to pop in really quick to address the initial “free trial” comments. The vast majority (and by vast, I mean nearly 100:1) of Webshots users are free. Webshots has always offered a free model, and will continue to do so. While I certainly would never discourage people to “try it while it’s still free,” I should let you know that that the “still free” period is infinitely longer than the initial posters may have led you to believe.

    Glad you find the new look refreshing… I couldn’t agree more!

    Expect some chuggies for the next day or so… we’re already much better than right after the push yesterday.

    Heather Hawkins
    Good ol’ Fashioned Webshots Mouthpiece

  8. martin

    August 30th, 2006 at 9:58 am

    thanks for the mention Mike.

    All feedback and comments are appreciated - we are excited about the new site and are looking forward to the next couple of months of feature releases, including video.

    re ads, we deliver third party ads in a way that even if the ad creative breaks, it does not damage the rendering of the rest of the page. hope that helps.

    disclosure - i work on Webshots.

  9. ryan

    August 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    martin- Are you certain? If I “Save Complete” the Webshots home page, then replace the IFRAME ad with an ad that does not have the allowtransparency attribute set, the expanding menu for “browse” goes underneath the Flash, obscuring everything below “good times.”

  10. Michael

    August 30th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

    This is the same Webshots that put all of that spyware on my computer when I wanted a cool screensaver like 10 years ago?

  11. fiorentina

    February 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    L’information interessante que vous avez! I’am allant revenir bientot.

  12. yahoo

    February 26th, 2007 at 6:38 am

    luogo fine, sapete..

  13. loghi

    February 26th, 2007 at 7:04 am

    Luogo grande! Grande giusto! I miei riguardi migliori al proprietario:)

  14. erotico

    February 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    um… buoni, realmente buoni luogo e molto utile;)

  15. gianna

    February 26th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    Great site! Good luck to it’s owner!

  16. grosso

    February 26th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    Stupore! ho una sensibilit molto buona circa il vostro luogo!!!!

  17. zucchero

    February 26th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    Interessare, molto interessante. Come avete fatto questo?

  18. prosciutto

    February 27th, 2007 at 5:37 am

    Ich fand gute und wichtige Informationen - dir zu danken.

  19. gelato

    February 27th, 2007 at 6:53 am

    Du musst ein Fachmann sein - wirklich guter Aufstellungsort, den du hast!

  20. sardinia

    February 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =)

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