And no reporting on this at techcrunch at all – arrington not ready to put light on the practices of the web2.0 poster site?

Incidentally, I pay about 25 bucks a year for my flickr account, and I still don’t see how it could function as a standalone business. Not unless adsense clickbots are involved (oh yes, I went there )

Personally, if I go to the trouble of putting all my photos and videos at a service with an eye toward preservation as well as sharing, then I want there to be a sustainable business model. More than anything, I want to be the customer if the company is my backup. At purely ad-supported sites, you are just a user, or worse, an eyeball. The people who trusted Yahoo photos got what they paid for.

That is not to say free sites are not good. Live for the moment. They are providing a service and you are paying with little more than your attention so enjoy it while it lasts. For maps and directions there is no downside. But for your personal photos and videos, the site can not represent an archival backup to you unless the service is going to be around a long time.

I’d also be surprised if these sites could be effectively ad supported, but I’d have to see numbers. Notice everyone talks about “page views”, “traffic”, “users” and “number of photos uploaded” (nothing audited, all easily fakeable) but never “revenue – expenses”. That’s a tell, just like in the late nineties

But it sure is fun sharing photos for free, or nearly free! Now if only they’d bring kozmo back — that was really cool!

And probably not only German users, judging by the nearly 10K entries for http://flickr.c...inkflickrthink/ in one day …

I see that the multiply uploader defaults to web-resolution images (just signed up and made you an online buddy), so that won’t work for preservation. How much data does multiply have per user?

I just signed up and see that the ads are in the management interface. the pattern of families taking photos and videos is that they take a lot of it early and then over time, they don’t look at the stuff. hence, I claim that over time, your storage costs might rise faster than your ad revenues.

And of course, some people just *prefer* not to have ads, and prefer to have an 800 number to call if they need their stuff back. the nice thing about the subscription model is that it is very customer, versus advertiser, centric.

Feel free to contact me at andrew@phanfare.com to discuss further.

Multiply also allows users to pull over all of their hi-res photos from Yahoo.

Sounds like people here aren’t familar with Flickr.

Flickr has one of the best privacy configurations around. As a father and photographer, I can post photos with several degress of privacy settings very quickly. I can even share say a photo of my toddler in the tub with just one person, or 10 or none.

Flickr is much superior to Yahoo

They bought Flickr for a reason.

– then switch / (if not just redirect) – allow users to use the same username;

- as they did it ; amazingly weak move