For the 6 site comparison, you can just go directly here:
http://www.phot...ps/compare-all/

Hope that helps you find what you are looking for!

-Aaron

They offer a free 14-day trial and you can save $5 off a new membership by using this coupon code: Tm1HMVMcu3q0k in the ‘Referred by’ field.

Hey, it’s free, and you don’t even need to provide a credit card. Why not give it a try?

I’ve tried trial versions of about a half-dozen photo sharing/storage sites and Smugmug is by far the best. There are numerous reasons why I love Smugmug which I’ve listed below. The age old saying is you get what you paid for. In the crowded field of online photo sharing services, Smugmug has been everything I’ve ever needed and then some.

Things I love about Smugmug and why I chose it over other competing services:

* They allow you to try the service free for 14 days. You can try EVERY feature they offer without any restrictions
* Your photos are safe and secure. They keep 4 backup copies of each photo in 3 states so you’ll always have access to them
* You can lock galleries with passwords to keep them private
* Smugmug doesn’t send you SPAM and there are NO ADS on the site
* You can share your photos with friends & family without them having to register with Smugmug
* A+ customer service. It’s fast, friendly, and professional
* Basic account offers UNLIMITED storage
* Prints can be ordered right from Smugmug. No need to get them ordered with a different company
* Comments, tags, keywords, and compatibility with blogs and forums – very convenient!
* Video clips are allowed with a Power User account
* Very helpful and friendly forum called “Digital Grin” who can answer just about any photo related question you can think of
* The company is FAMILY OWNED and not run by some internet conglomerate like Yahoo or Kodak
* Company has always been profitable so there’s no risk of them going out of business then you lose all your files

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1. I like Smugmug myself – esp. the fact that they care so much, but also for the many features, their continued dedication to developing new features – this is both rare and awesome!

2. #1 notwithstanding – well, I don’t think you need to hear this from me but since your question might be not as rhetorical as “What, because I’m actually impressed by what a company’s doing, that makes me PR? Pah-lease” may sound – here you go – I start every semester by asking my students about the difference between PR and journalism – and if you wish:

The difference between journalism and PR is that a journalist has an obligation to report facts IMPARTIALLY and OBJECTIVELY and does not pass JUDGMENT on the subject in question. The goal of PR is to present your CLIENT in the best light, disregarding and deemphasizing facts if you have to.

To this point: Phanfare.com has had a wonderful full screen video for a long time (and wonderful PR in the form of “articles”), Pbase has had an awesome album solution with original size photos, etc.

I find it quite interesting that you developed SmugMug while working on video games – good move getting out of that. It seems you really got something with the photo sharing site that emphasizes looks over your ad space revenue.

Now that’s chutzpah. As if the folks on Flickr don’t give a damn about their photos. That’s merely your OPINION — one not necessarily shared by a lot of other folks.

Next TechCrunch will be telling us how fantastic Zoomr is. Scoble spends all his time shilling for THAT mediocre photo site. Zoomr has been reinventing the wheel (i.e., reinventing Flickr)…and constantly gets praised for it by Scoble since he’s friends with one of the Zoomr owners.

What a joke a lot of these tech review websites have become!

It is one thing to like a successful business model (I am with you on that), but reposting marketing statements written with an unhealthy doze of self-importance is hardly worthy of blogging. Their numbers always seem to be all over the place, just do a search for the past 12 months, you will find numbers quoted by management ranging from 100k users to now 450k users and revenues quoted from $10mln to $30mln for the same time period, go figure.

Smugmug was the service to use until two years ago when Zenfolio (www.zenfolio.com) was launched. Zenfolio had dynamically sized images and page scaling since day one, and smugmug is just now playing catch-up. In fact, smugmug has been playing catch-up to Zenfolio on almost all the new features, and they still don’t get them right.

And video support requiring all Windows viewers to download and install QuickTime (with now mandatory iTunes), and not keeping original video files is hardly worthy of news.

The Flickr comparison for sites like smugmug or Zenfolio is not a useful one, there is very little overlap in functionality while catering to different needs. I use both Flickr and Zenfolio and think they are a great combination. In fact, getting the two synchronized would have been a really useful feature.

Please tell us something worthy to read, as we have come to expect from a site like TechCrunch.

Not entirely true- They offer free lifetime pro accounts if you develop software that utilizes their API… Which is an incredibly developer-friendly system.

I’m not sure that photo-resizing justifies its own post, but I do find SmugMug to be a first-rate service, definitely one of the leaders in the online album space.

Lets get some real stories instead of rehashing the same old blurb over and over.

“SmugMug has released a set of new features that further cements itself as a first-rate photo sharing website.”

Then consider that 4 of the comments are from Robert Scoble and ask yourself whether TC has jumped the shark.

Numbers don’t add up…

@Lin: I’m management, and I take speed *very* seriously. Our website is hardly underpowered. I’m terribly sorry if we let you down, but I promise, we try very very hard to keep the site snappy and fast.

I’ve blogged on the subject recently: http://blogs.sm.../speed-matters/

As far as we can tell, measured from locations all over the world (and supported by customers all over the world), we’re faster than most of the other large photo sharing sites out there. (It’s easy to be fast when you have few viewers and customers – obviously it gets much harder when you have as many as we do).

That being said, we’re not perfect. We blow it sometimes with a bad code release, or find a pocket of the world that just can’t get to us quickly for whatever reason. I think everyone has these problems – and they’re often incredibly difficult to track down and identify. Is it a networking problem? Your ISP? One of ours? Anti-virus software on your PC? Some virus or something in your PC? A bug in our software? The list is long.

I’m terribly sorry we let you down, and I’d love to give it another shot with you, if you’re interested. If not, if we’ve lost your trust, I completely understand. Flickr is a great service – enjoy it!

Despite having high speed broadband, Smugmug was often slow moving — making it difficult to move around. Numerous people on numerous occasions told management that there were problems (on their forum), but all SMUGMUG did was ask you to run speedtests and tracenet. But nothing ever improved.

I canceled just to be done with SMUGMUG (despite having paid for a year), moved to Flickr and have been very happy at Flickr. Not to mention it’s cheaper and I got more comments on my photos on a week at Flickr than I did in months at SMUGMUG.

So good luck with SMUGMUG. All those features sound nice on paper but don’t mean diddly if their website is underpowered.