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By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:37:14 +0000

[...] hosts 20 billion images, I’ve confirmed with the company (for more background on ImageShack, read this post). Facebook holds 15 billion photos, according to a spokesperson there. But it should catch up by [...]

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Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:28:27 +0000

By: Dr Evil

Dr Evil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:50:54 +0000

Ghaus,

Charge One Hundred Million nuts for your service…muhaaahaaahahaaa.

By: Media-hosting site ImageShack raises $15M from Sequoia » VentureBeat

Media-hosting site ImageShack raises $15M from Sequoia » VentureBeat — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:54:50 +0000

[...] the news sounds a little familiar, it’s because TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported an unconfirmed rumor of Sequoia backing ImageShack for $10 million back in May. Chief executive Jack Levin, an early [...]

By: riffic

riffic — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:52:55 +0000

http://digg.com...hy_Just_for_fun

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:39:54 +0000

Ghaus you are a very delusional individual.

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:25:30 +0000

Thanks for the reply Eric.

YouTube’s bank account scaled a lot that they were paying $1million/month. And yeah ofcourse my bank account can scale too once I secure venture funding.

The best thing is that once millions of users start using my service regularily, i have found a way to monetize my service. While imageshack, flick, photobucket and even Google images haven’t found the way to monetize their sites properly. So my main aim is users, once i have good user base, then i will be moving to monetize it.

http://www.fotokong.com/

FotoKong,
Founder and CEO,
Ghaus Iftikhar

By: How can Imageshack afford its torrent downloading service? | Fresh Web 2.0 News

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:42:01 +0000

[...] Techcrunch has an engrossing article most Imageshack in reddened of rumors that Sequioa is most to equip in the company. Imageshack originator Jack Levin doesn’t support or contain these rumors, but he gave Techcrunch whatever engrossing scenery aggregation most his company. [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:06:16 +0000

Yes Ghaus. we’ve heard of S3. However, the general consensus is that while you won’t have to worry about scaling your servers, you’ll have to worry about scaling your bank account. Hope you have something interesting to bring to the table, other than Good luck, and don’t let myself or anyone else stop you.

By: P2P Blog: How can Imageshack afford its torrent downloading service?

P2P Blog: How can Imageshack afford its torrent downloading service? — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:29:27 +0000

P2P Blog: How can Imageshack afford its torrent downloading service?…

One part of its business that hasn’t been mentioned at all on Techcrunch is Imageshack’s torrent download service that makes it possible to remotely download torrents onto their web server and then access them right through your browser and download …

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:20:26 +0000

Hey guys thanks for the feedback.

Well has anyone ever heard about Amazon S3, well this is what we will be using to host all our photos, so i don’t nede to buy 1000s of servers for scaling and storing so many photos. And we are using .NET from Microsoft, and i think as far scaling is concerned, we will do our best. And ofcourse when it becomes a hit we will be looking forward for some VC fund.

http://www.fotokong.com/

FotoKong,
Founder and CEO,
Ghaus Iftikhar

By: Harry Wang

Harry Wang — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:59:16 +0000

Anyone ever hear more about his clustering architecture?

Harry “intrigued” Wang

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:07:44 +0000

Hey Ghaus

Hope you also own your own hosting company and can get servers and bandwidth for nothing.

Back in the real world those things cost money – and lots of it.
Slap down about 100k in the first year to cover it and hope you can scale if it becomes popular.

If it does well great – then you’ll need 100k a month.

By: jer

jer — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:43 +0000

yeah, I like imagesocket.com too. It’s easy to use and held up really well to the digg effect recently.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:57:43 +0000

Ghaus, it’s amazingly easy to ‘babble’ about someone who achieved way more then you.

When you scaling 1000 servers with loads they have you will have to set limits.

Anyways, I still believe that http://www.imagesocket.com is simply far greater then anything else out there (besides maybe media fire?).

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:20:55 +0000

ImageShack does not allow you to upload unlimited files for free, there is an $8/month subscription for that !

And each image size is limited to 3MB even if you are a registered member
For non-registered users the limit is 1.5MB

This sucks !

Be prepared for FotoKong ! It is a new start-up founded by two young 19yr old students. It will allow unlimited uploads and each photo will be limited to 5 MB, which is 2MB more than ImageShack. So that Professional Photographers can upload their Photos too. And all for free !

It will have many features of social networking website too.

Alpha version of FotoKong will launch this Week !

http://www.fotokong.com

FotoKong,
Founder and CEO
Ghaus Iftikhar

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:26:57 +0000

Definitely agree with Gabe.
Great to read about “low profile” companies finding smart ways to keep costs low and build long-term financial stability.

Given the current economic climate this is the way to work.

Much better than all the useless noise about social network add-ons that allow you to “bite” or “slap” a friend and other rubbish.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:05:48 +0000

wow, a lot of traffic, and i’ve never heard of them before… where’ve i been??

By: jas

jas — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:45:50 +0000

Not that impressive many start ups are self funded and profitable from day one.

By: Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:43:40 +0000

[...] image hosting cheaply: the ex-Google engineer that started ImageShack can serve two terabytes of images from a single $1,000, Linux [...]

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:46:06 +0000

Craigslist of Image Hosting? The guy just earned a lot of respect from me after reading this article.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:13 +0000

I don’t see how they are succeeding without rounded corners…
boggles my mind

By: Bruce Lewis

Bruce Lewis — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:54:33 +0000

Guillaume, encryption is overkill for protecting personal memories. A simple unlisted URL should do it unless it’s a particularly embarrassing memory.