ONLINE PHOTO ALBUM INFO NEEDED

Hi!

Yahoo Photos is closing and i need to switch all my photos from there to either Flickr, Photobucket, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish or Shutterfly. Any opinion on these. One better then the other? all the same? I'm really looking for a company that's going to stay in business for the next 70 years.

Thanks in advance.
BK Traveller

It really depends on what you want out of your service; snapfish is more orientated towards ordering prints; flickr is more a social photo sharing site.

As to who's going to be around in 70 years, I'd suggest probably none of them. Even assuming the internet's still around then most have unsustainable business models. "Share your photos for free; P.S. our servers, programmers, bandwidth and maintenance all cost money, yet we don't charge you any."

I suspect in your case Flickr should have the easiest migration path; since Yahoo owns Flickr and are trying to consolidate their platforms into one > Flickr.

I am a huge fan of Fotki. Very easy to use and ordering prints is a snap.

My Fotki page if you want to see the set up.

I like Flickr. If you get a pro account then there is no limit to uploads. If you're in the US there are options to print your photos from there too. I like how you can tag your flickr photos and share them and get comments on them, and several viewing sizes and overall the site is very easy to navigate and friendly (I feel). Who knows what is still going to be around in 70yrs. If you are that worried then buy your own webspace then you can be sure it won't just disappear and you can keep it going for as long as you want.

I use flickr simply because I used to use yahoo photos. It does everything i need especially as i downloaded an uploader that takes photos directly from my iPhoto software.

Forget Flickr; it's OK but it's just another Yahoo service and after 10 years of sticking with Yahoo I have moved all my stuff out of Yahoo altogether.

Embrace Google and its Picasa/Panoramio/Maps killer combination. There is really no comparison on the net... they are so far ahead in terms of putting photos onto precise locations down to the street level on earth and having photo albums mapped, stored, shared with others, combined with travelog, etc etc that the game is really over for all competitors.

I like Pbase. Very reasonable for 23 USD a year. No annoying adverts etc.

Maybe it's a bit late, anyway... I dont know well the others website but Flickr is really good in the sense that is it not only a site to put your pictures but there are thousands of really really good photographers there and you can learn a lot. It is also very social, you can be part of groups, ask questions get comments to improve your skills. I could spend hours looking at Flickr, so many great pictures there.

Flickr charges a fee, if you want to have more than 3 sets of photos.

Maybe Picasa is better....

I started out with Pbase in 2002. It has developed gradually to offer a variety of style sheets. Using it, though, is not as easy and intuitive as Picasa Web Albims. However, Picasa Web Albums lacks the fancy features of Pbase, such as style sheets and nested galleries/albums.
Picasa Web is great for quick and easy uploads and display. I think that so far, Pbase is better for more advanced photographers. That may change. Pbase is $23 a year. Picasa web is free, up to the first gigabyte of storage. The slide show feature of Picasa Web is vastly superior to that of Pbase.
Flickr is ok; somewhat comparable to Picasa Web, but the latter is better.

I wouldn't use any photo sharing service that had ads on my pages. I'd rather pay an annual fee.

is there any sites that do not require software installation? i am running out of hard disk space....