Comments on: ProtectMyPhotos launches very easy online media storage

By: ProtectMyPhotos Protects More than Just Photos| Zoli’s Blog

ProtectMyPhotos Protects More than Just Photos| Zoli’s Blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:55:34 +0000

[...] an online photo data backup/restore service with quite a few bells and whistles added. As usual, TechCrunch has the detailed review, so I will focus on positioning and some comparative analysis here, which is not quite easy, for it [...]

By: Good News/Bad News For Startup Founder Cliff Shaw

Good News/Bad News For Startup Founder Cliff Shaw — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:59:34 +0000

[...] the bad news. ProtectMyPhotos, which launched in October 2006, is done. They spent $280,000 in seed capital to try to make the idea work, but ultimately they [...]

By: DocSyncer Bridges Your Desktop With Google Docs

DocSyncer Bridges Your Desktop With Google Docs — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:25:09 +0000

[...] immediately synced up to our online viewer and Google Docs.” Shaw is also the CEO of ProtectMyPhotos, which synchronizes your desktop photos with an online storage service and with Flickr. DocSyncer, [...]

By: Don Dunaway

Don Dunaway — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:15:06 +0000

I like what I hear about ProtectMyPhotos, but have heard nothing about them since October 2006. It’s now late Feb ‘07. Are they still in business? Will tey be a year from now? Five years? Does anyone know anything about them?

By: ColoradoStartups.com » ProtectMyPhotos - the lean, mean, photo backup machine

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:54:22 +0000

[...] Although the Boulder-based company launched in August, ProtectMyPhotos co-founder and CEO Cliff Shaw told me earlier today that things have really taken off since the recent TechCrunch coverage of the product. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:34:49 +0000

I use IBackup for Windows (www.ibackup.com/ibwin_new.htm) to backup and restore all my important files and folders, including photos. You can perform interactive and scheduled backup operations of your important files and folders to your online IBackup account. You can securely store your photos and access them from anywhere and view them as thumbnails or as an animated slide show using the ‘Image Gallery’ feature.

If you have GIF/JPG/TIFF images in a folder, IBackup’s browser-based application ‘Webmanager’ automatically senses the presence of these images and displays the ‘Image Gallery’ option when you login to your IBackup account. You can click on the ‘Image Gallery’ option to view thumbnails of these images. You can also share your photos with friends and family by creating sharable links and emailing these to friends and partners for collaboration.

IDrive (www.ibackup.com/IBDrive_new.htm’>IDrive) is an application that maps your online IBackup account as a network drive on your computer. You can then drag and drop files to the IBackup account from the Windows explorer. It also allows you to open and save files stored in their IBackup online backup/ storage accounts directly from their associated applications like Microsoft Office.

By: GigaOM » Everything But the Kitchen Sync

GigaOM » Everything But the Kitchen Sync — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:16:04 +0000

[...] Things are heating up in the consumer file-syncing space, with startups aggressively boasting about their feature adds. Boulder-based ProtectMyPhotos, which you can read about in this TechCrunch post, offered us the “exclusive” on their addition of auto-synchronization from their mobile and browser apps down to the photo (or other files) stored on a Windows PC. I replied to the pitch, asking how this was any different from Sharpcast, a company I’ve covered before. The ProtectMyPhotos team promised a demo would show me the light, and brought what seemed like the whole company on a WebEx conference call. [...]

By: Web2.0Fan.net

Web2.0Fan.net — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:22:46 +0000

照片在线备份 – ProtectMyPhotos…

在线多媒体储存这个市场从来没有安静过。最近又来了一个叫做ProtectMyPhotos，而且还是一个很有潜力的玩家。
ProtectMyPhotos（以下简略为PMP）提供一个跟传统Windows文件管理器一样的界面，让用…

By: CrunchNotes » Congrats to ProtectMyPhotos

CrunchNotes » Congrats to ProtectMyPhotos — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:55:23 +0000

[...] It’s a good day when I see a company get the attention it deserves after we write about them on TechCrunch. Congrats to ProtectMyPhotos. [...]

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:37:09 +0000

Pickle (www.pickle.com) lets you retrieve your original photo files as well. Plus, you can keep your photos and videos in the same space rather than splitting your media collection between two websites.

By: coolnalu

coolnalu — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:50:45 +0000

Blueray is the way to go. XD

Well seriously, everyone has been trying hard to stand out of the “jungle”, yet no one has done significantly better than others…besides it would take quite long (a few years, who knows) to start to make profit….

I am gonna try something else out if I’d ever start a company…

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:48:47 +0000

Phanfare is the way to go.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:06:09 +0000

Note that Flickr does *not* archive the original image! I signed up for a pro account and was very disappointed to find out that when I clicked “Download the original image”, what downloads is an image that is the same resolution, but dramatically-increased compression. My photos on Flickr clearly show compression artifacts where the originals do not, and the file size of the one downloaded from Flickr is under a 1MB when the original was over 3MB. This is not what I expected when I paid for a “professional” account, and it makes it completely unviable as a true backup/safe storage solution.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:10:27 +0000

Um. Why can’t you back up to a DVD and send it to your family on the other side of the country??

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:21:55 +0000

The BIGGEST problem with services like these is that they only sync/backup what’s on YOUR computer, so if you delete a photo from your computer, so will it get deleted from theirs.

By contrast, places like Flickr, smugmug, etc. will upload your photo and then it stays there, even if you delete it from your computer, which is what I really need. I don’t keep tons of photos on my own computer obviously as it fills it up and want a place other than DVD’s to store them.

By: links for 2006-10-14 « Gobán Saor

links for 2006-10-14 « Gobán Saor — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:18:21 +0000

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By: JonD

JonD — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:19:38 +0000

Flickr works great for me.

I upload all the photos using the Flickr uploader or using the iPhoto flickr export plugin.

With flickr, you can share photos with others, manage photos way better, order prints etc. And its cheaper too–$25 a year for unlimited storage.

I’m not seeing the point of this protectmyphotos site and its $40 backup plan.

If you need 2 way syncing, use any of the dozens of other companies that offer backups. Why limit yourself to just photos with protectmyphoto.com?

By: Acey

Acey — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:34:00 +0000

It’s only for Windows! I don’t use Windows!

By: Anshul

Anshul — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:29:57 +0000

The service sounds cool but I really do not see any demand of it. If a person is a heavy photo taker, syncing photos every time you start your computer will increase bandwidth costs. Also does Techcrunch have actual data on whether or not people actually use online file storage services on a regular basis.

By: social hortis » Retrospective semaine#2

social hortis » Retrospective semaine#2 — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:02:59 +0000

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By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ProtectMyPhotos、とても使いやすいオンラインメディアストレージをローンチ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ProtectMyPhotos、とても使いやすいオンラインメディアストレージをローンチ — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:58:09 +0000

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By: Ebrahim

Ebrahim — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:22:38 +0000

Sharpcast seems to be a (much) better product than this. I’ve been using it since beta 1.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:44:26 +0000

Yousay it can be used to backup any files – that’s not quite right, it will back up a number of ‘office’ type files, finacial files (quicken etc.) and audio files, but that does leave out some files that I would like to backup.

So no go for me. I’m looking at Carbonite at the moment, but wished it would support network drives as we will probably add some NAS at some point.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:46:16 +0000

Something makes me think that Google’s Picasa Web Albums will eventually do this AND will be free. Right now they have 250Meg free or 6Gig for $25/year.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:25:54 +0000

The “free plan” doesn’t allow restoration of backed up photos. What is the point of having a “free plan” then?

I just uploaded some photos under the “free plan” and all it does is reduce their quality (to 640×480) and allow you to view them on the web from any computer. Not exactly what I would “protection”. The windows client is rather simple and nicely designed though.

Here’s what it says when you try to restore photos from a “free plan” account:

“The free version uploads reduced quality versions of your files so there is no option to restore without having a payed account. By becoming a subscriber, you can enjoy full protection of your photos, videos, music, and documents. Click here to sign up now!”