Picture storage web site? But not flickr or picasa!
Any good site for free pictures upload & organize & sharing that is NOT connected with Yahoo (Microsoft) or Google?
They have a $3/month plan that gives you flickr like features (large uncompressed images, unlimited storage), and an API (free, but no commercial use w/o consent). Looks pretty solid if you're intent on avoiding a large company.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_guy...
It's only $40 a year. The galleries look awesome. There are no ads. Unlimited storage. No limits on image sizes. Galleries can be viewed as a slide show. There's an iPad app (Meh).
You can also upgrade to a pro-level account and actually sell your pics for a profit, as digital assets, prints, or merchandise.
If you're not adamant about 'free', zenfolio [http://www.zenfolio.com/zf/pricing.aspx] is very nice, and quite affordable.
Yahoo doesn't own Microsoft.
* Yahoo established a relationship with Microsoft. The relationship involves refactoring both Bing and Yahoo Search to use the same web index.
* The crawler, storage and serving infrastructure for web indexes are capital intensive. It has nothing to do with technology -- it amounts to buying up farmlands in Idaho to store millions of computers.
* Hence, it's simply about whoever has the largest pile of cash. Since Yahoo's pile of cash is tiny compared to Google, the ONLY way to stop Google from a monopoly is Microsoft.
* This lets Yahoo concentrate on improving search outside of the boring parts of search. They're calling this the "death of the 10 blue links". If you see yahoo search today, they're ahead of Google on this.
* Outsourcing capital-intensive parts allows Yahoo to innovate on things that they are VERY good at: content optimization, display advertising, and editorial content.
* Thanks to this deal, Yahoo also now owns 100% of the display advertising market outside of doubleclick. This includes all Microsoft properties. What's important to note is that Facebook has a display deal with Microsoft till 2011.
I hope that makes it clearer. Yahoo is not MS's bitch. MS is not Yahoo's bitch. This is a strategic partnership. This happens in business.
As I say before - I expressed only my personal opinion and I don't have any intention to start discussion or flame war on that matter. Can I express my opinion or it's not allowed? I simply don't like Microsoft/Google and the way they do business - is there anything wrong with that? Or we all MUST adore and love Microsoft and Google? Of course all these questions are rhetorical and I don't demand answers.
Wish you all the best.