Photo Sharing Services 101

Wikipedia defines photo sharing services as follows :

Photo sharing is a term given to a crop of mid-2000s websites which provide means to publish a collection of digital photos online in a centralized and organized fashion. The term can be applied to online photo galleries, as well as “photoblogs”, i.e. weblogs where the journal entries are prominently centered around original images.

Photo Sharing Services Reference Material

The rise and rise of Flickr by Dan Farber

Flickr : no flash in the pan by BusinessWeek

PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites by Hitwise

The biggest web site you’ve never heard of by David Kirkpatrick

Snapshots that do more than bore friends
by Michelle Higgins

Photo Sharing Services

Filmloop

Flickr

Image Shack

Kodak EasyShare Gallery

Panoramio

Photobucket

Picturetrail

Shutterfly

Slide

SmugMug

Snapfish

Thumbplay

Webshots

Zoomandgo

Zooomr