TechoCrunch

Sharing pictures is definitely something everybody loves, marriages, parties, taking photos and sharing them with your friends such a great feeling, so nothing beats a fast, easy to use photo sharing service. Actually i got few emails asking me to write about some cool photo sharing services that are free, fast and easy to use. Well thou I’m a avid photobucket user which i think is the best photo sharing service(no offense to flickr users) there are many to choose from.

Photobucket – is one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size. You can also upgrade to the paid version which gives you 5GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth and images upto 5MB all for just $25 a year.

Flickr- is the grand daddy of photo sharing, but its not just your plain photo sharing service, its a big social network where people can comment, make groups, rate photos etc. For a free account it lets you upload only 100Mb of pictures with 10MB limit per photo. While the pro version which costs you $25 a year is unlimited almost everything.

ImageShack – is another very popular image hosting service. Mainly used for hot-linking purposes by forum members. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed them in any web page. Paid version has the file size limits of 3MB and unlimited bandwidth and storage but is a tad costly at $68 a year.

BubbleShare is just wonderful, and ridiculously easy to use. wholly due to the great interface, the best part its free.

Tinypic- is another great service that lets you upload pictures for free. Like it’s cousin TinyUrl it creates urls like( http://tinypic.com/1)

BayImg – is a free uncensored image(that doesn’t means porn) hosting provided by the Pirate Bay. The max file upload size is 100MB and you can can upload about 140 different formats.

Webshots – is one of the oldest sites in the photo sharing. It lets you upload 1000 pictures each month while with a paid account which costs you about $3 a month lets you upload upto 5000 pictures a month and download unlimited exclusive pro shots, high resolution photos.

Here are my personal favorites, but I’m assuming i missed many of your favorites! You can’t blame me for that each week I come across new web 2.0 photo sharing sites trying to make there mark. If you like the post please post some comments and also talk about your favorites, I’ll be more then happy to have chat.

Pranjal