Photobucket was founded in 2003 as a photo hosting site that allows users to store and share photos online. It has since grown to become the largest photo sharing site with over 90 million registered users. Photobucket makes money through paid Pro memberships that offer additional storage space and features, as well as advertisements. While primarily used for sharing photos, Photobucket can also be used by individuals and businesses for photo storage, editing, and embedding in other websites and applications.
Social Media 40 Places To Find Web 20 For Your Web Sitefemi adi
This document provides information about social media and web 2.0 tools that can be embedded on websites. It introduces Kathy McShea, the author, and her company Emerald Strategies. The bulk of the document lists 40 different social media categories like audio/music, calendar, forms, images, and links. Under each category it lists 2-3 specific tools that allow embedding content on websites for purposes like sharing photos, videos, calendars and more. The goal is to help people expand their online presence and engagement through integration of these third-party web 2.0 tools.
As presented to the 2009 GNLC in Dallas by Deltina Hay. Hay talks about how a nonprofit can use social media, and how to create and integrate an optimized Social Web presence.
After researching blogging and performing a case study on Tumblr, Mike Ham concluded that:
1) Blogging has shifted from traditional media to participation culture by allowing readers to interact through comments.
2) Blogging has grown massively since its beginnings in the early 2000s, though social networks have reduced recognition of blogs.
3) Blogging has made a cultural impact in areas like education, family, business, society, and religion by democratizing information.
The document discusses various social media and online networking platforms for learning and connecting online. It provides information on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Blogger, PBworks, WordPress, Second Life, Picasa, YouTube, Google, and Google+. Key details are provided on the origins and functionality of each platform.
Exposing the Web’s Biggest (Free) BillboardMicah Laaker
Overview of Yahoo!'s latest offering for developers, designers, and publishers: getting free access, on-network, to Yahoo!'s open canvases and activity streams.
This document provides information on various ways to learn and network online, including social media platforms and tools for sharing content. Facebook allows users to connect with friends and share updates. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share videos.
This document compares different types of blog sites and provides information on their number of users, type of blog, and tools offered. It evaluates blogs such as Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, Wordpress.org, and Boingboing.net. Blogger.com is one of the first major blogging sites and enables many users to create blogs. Tumblr emphasizes ease of use through short form posting. Wordpress allows customization through themes and plugins. Boingboing is a collaborative blog that offers videos, photos and links to other sites.
Social Media 40 Places To Find Web 20 For Your Web Sitefemi adi
This document provides information about social media and web 2.0 tools that can be embedded on websites. It introduces Kathy McShea, the author, and her company Emerald Strategies. The bulk of the document lists 40 different social media categories like audio/music, calendar, forms, images, and links. Under each category it lists 2-3 specific tools that allow embedding content on websites for purposes like sharing photos, videos, calendars and more. The goal is to help people expand their online presence and engagement through integration of these third-party web 2.0 tools.
As presented to the 2009 GNLC in Dallas by Deltina Hay. Hay talks about how a nonprofit can use social media, and how to create and integrate an optimized Social Web presence.
After researching blogging and performing a case study on Tumblr, Mike Ham concluded that:
1) Blogging has shifted from traditional media to participation culture by allowing readers to interact through comments.
2) Blogging has grown massively since its beginnings in the early 2000s, though social networks have reduced recognition of blogs.
3) Blogging has made a cultural impact in areas like education, family, business, society, and religion by democratizing information.
The document discusses various social media and online networking platforms for learning and connecting online. It provides information on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Blogger, PBworks, WordPress, Second Life, Picasa, YouTube, Google, and Google+. Key details are provided on the origins and functionality of each platform.
Exposing the Web’s Biggest (Free) BillboardMicah Laaker
Overview of Yahoo!'s latest offering for developers, designers, and publishers: getting free access, on-network, to Yahoo!'s open canvases and activity streams.
This document provides information on various ways to learn and network online, including social media platforms and tools for sharing content. Facebook allows users to connect with friends and share updates. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share videos.
This document compares different types of blog sites and provides information on their number of users, type of blog, and tools offered. It evaluates blogs such as Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, Wordpress.org, and Boingboing.net. Blogger.com is one of the first major blogging sites and enables many users to create blogs. Tumblr emphasizes ease of use through short form posting. Wordpress allows customization through themes and plugins. Boingboing is a collaborative blog that offers videos, photos and links to other sites.
The document discusses the history and evolution of YouTube. It notes that YouTube was founded in 2005 and was later bought by Google for $1.65 billion. It began allowing users to upload and share videos, as well as comment and create playlists. Early competitors to YouTube included Google Video and Vimeo, but YouTube became the dominant platform due to its easy uploading and sharing features.
This document provides an overview of several specialist social media platforms, including YouTube, Vine, and Vimeo. It discusses their main features and how they can be used both personally and professionally. Specifically, it notes that YouTube allows uploading of longer videos for sharing, Vine focuses on 6 second videos shared through a smartphone app, and Vimeo has a smaller community focused on higher quality uploads. The document encourages exploring these platforms to find content to share and provides tasks for engaging with the channels.
Video marketing is on the rise, so it’s no surprise that the social media giants are fighting over which will be the dominating platform for video distribution. YouTube has long run the show, but Facebook’s share in the marketplace has been growing at a faster rate. Should YouTube be worried? Download our latest white paper and get all the facts!
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site launched in 2002. It has over 70 million registered users from more than 190 countries. LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, and it was founded by Reid Hoffman and others from PayPal. Bing is a web search engine owned by Microsoft that was launched in 2009 and powers search for AOL. It uses semantic technologies from Powerset acquired by Microsoft. WordPress is an open-source content management system used by over 12% of the top 1 million websites as a blogging platform and website builder, launched in 2004.
In the 18 months since Google Plus launched Pages, brands have been tentatively exploring Google's fledgling and enigmatic social network. But, determining how Google+ fits into a brand's growing social ecosystem can be a challenge. In this Critical Mass POV, our social media team reviews the most interesting features and benefits to brands using Google+ Pages, outlines some great use-cases and offers some guidance on how your brand may want to approach Google+.
This document provides a summary of key events in social media and technology from June 2012. It discusses how search has become more social through features like Google+ and Bing integrating social profiles. Legislation around copyright is mentioned like SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. Facebook launched timeline pages and open graph apps. Google+ introduced pages for brands. Pinterest is described as a new visual social bookmarking service driving traffic and purchases. LinkedIn acquired Slideshare and Facebook acquired Instagram. The death of check-ins on location-based services is noted along with Eastman Kodak filing for bankruptcy despite inventing digital cameras.
YouTube is an internet website that specializes in publishing user-posted video clips. It was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Originally intended as a video version of a dating site, it evolved into a platform for sharing all types of videos. YouTube's success is partly due to its simple interface that allows videos to play quickly. It was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006.
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and comment on videos. The document discusses how YouTube was launched in 2005 and grew rapidly, serving over 100 million videos per day by 2006. A web crawler was used to collect data from YouTube, including over 300 user profiles and relationships between users like friendships and subscriptions. The collected data was analyzed to understand how human social interactions shape the technological networks on YouTube, with distributions of content and relationships following power-law functions consistent with small-world network models.
This document provides instructions on various ways to access and use YouTube. It discusses registering for a YouTube account which requires creating a linked Google account. It also covers subscribing to channels, finding new videos, and using likes/dislikes and comments. The document reviews browser extensions for customizing the YouTube experience and exploring embedded video options. Additionally, it outlines accessing YouTube on mobile devices via apps and the mobile website. Finally, it discusses options for streaming YouTube to a home theater PC or TV like the YouTube Remote app and Google TV.
The document summarizes YouTube optimization strategies for content creators. It discusses YouTube partner programs that allow creators to monetize content and manage copyrights. It provides tips for optimizing a YouTube channel, including using custom thumbnails and titles, descriptive tags and metadata, strategic use of annotations and cards, and choosing the appropriate video categories and privacy settings. The document aims to help creators expand their audience and monetization opportunities on YouTube.
This document discusses various online collaboration and content sharing tools including Google Docs, Delicious, Picasa, and YouTube. Google Docs allows online creation and editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets users tag and share web bookmarks. Picasa is a photo editing and sharing program from Google. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share videos.
A talk on "Deployment Strategies For Web 2.0" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the University of Nottingham on 12 March 2007.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/nottingham-2007-03/
This document discusses using internet and social networking tools in engineering education. It describes research showing social networking can positively impact student learning and relationships with mentors. A study is described that assessed engineering students' use of a Facebook group page for a class, finding most believed it helped their learning and goals. The document also provides details on the anatomy and uses of Facebook, SkyDrive, graphic software, mathematical packages, and multimedia in engineering education.
On the road? At an Internet Café? Using someone else's computer? Your office can't afford Photoshop? Here is a overview of a few of the different image editing and creating tools available to make quick edits in your web browser. Note - 1) you'll probably have to mix and match tools to complete your task; 2) not all online tools are compatible with all platforms or browsers. Plan on tinkering a bit to get what you want.
Primer on Open Licenses and Intellectual PropertyUna Daly
This document provides an overview of open licenses and intellectual property presented by Kathleen Omollo on May 14, 2014. It discusses how open licenses allow legal sharing and remixing of content through options like Creative Commons that allow attribution, non-commercial use, and sharing alike. The presentation promotes adopting open educational resources to expand access to education and support teaching and learning. It explains key concepts like copyright and public domain, and how open licenses maintain some rights while allowing propagation of content through copies, derivatives and other transformations.
The document discusses various cloud storage services including SlideShare, Scribd, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Drive. It provides an introduction to cloud storage and tips for using cloud storage. For each service, it describes what the service is, how people use it, its website URL, and how to register. SlideShare allows sharing presentations, Scribd allows sharing documents, Picasa allows organizing and editing photos, YouTube allows uploading and sharing videos, and Google Drive provides file storage and sharing through Google Docs.
YouTube is a video sharing website launched in 2005 that allows users to upload, view, and share videos. It became owned by Google after being acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. The website was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Users can upload videos up to 15 minutes in length and view videos from around the world. YouTube also has apps available for mobile devices and platforms like Xbox and Apple TV.
- Former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. The first video uploaded was titled "Me at the zoo" and shows YouTube founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- YouTube quickly grew popular, with 13 hours of new videos uploaded every minute by 2007. The site consumed as much bandwidth as the entire internet in 2000.
- The user uploading the document has been a YouTube member since 2006 and has uploaded around 7,000 videos. They feel YouTube is great for finding specific interests and subscriber channels instead of relying on programmer recommendations.
Google in the Classroom: Google Groups And Sites PresentationKristin Dragos
Presented at the Illinois Association of Teachers of English Conference 2009 in Rockford, IL. This presentation documents ways Google Groups and Google Sites can be used in the classroom.
Flickr is a photo sharing website and online community that allows users to upload, organize, and share photos. It has over 7 million registered users who upload over 5,000 photos per minute. Flickr revolutionized how photos are shared both for professional and amateur photographers. The community aspect is a key part of Flickr, with users tagging photos, commenting, and forming groups around interests. The strong online community also leads to real world meetups. While basic accounts are free, pro accounts provide more storage and capabilities for an annual fee.
This document discusses various aspects of social media. It begins by defining social media as media that is designed to be shared through commenting, sending, and viewing with no high costs. It then lists some top social media websites and compares the key differences between traditional media and social media. The document goes on to discuss specific social media tools and platforms like blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, content sharing sites, and more. It provides examples of how these can be used for marketing purposes and shares statistics about social media usage.
SmugMug is a paid photo sharing website launched in 2002 that allows users to upload and sell photos and videos. Minus is a chat and photo app that lets users meet strangers from around the world. Photobucket is a free image and video hosting site and online community created in 2003 that is widely used for personal and business purposes like embedding on blogs. Flickr is an image hosting site acquired by Yahoo in 2005 that is popular for sharing personal photos and hosting images for blogs and research. ImageShack is an image hosting service that was free but switched to a paid subscription model in 2014, and generates revenue from advertising on the free tier.
The document discusses the history and evolution of YouTube. It notes that YouTube was founded in 2005 and was later bought by Google for $1.65 billion. It began allowing users to upload and share videos, as well as comment and create playlists. Early competitors to YouTube included Google Video and Vimeo, but YouTube became the dominant platform due to its easy uploading and sharing features.
This document provides an overview of several specialist social media platforms, including YouTube, Vine, and Vimeo. It discusses their main features and how they can be used both personally and professionally. Specifically, it notes that YouTube allows uploading of longer videos for sharing, Vine focuses on 6 second videos shared through a smartphone app, and Vimeo has a smaller community focused on higher quality uploads. The document encourages exploring these platforms to find content to share and provides tasks for engaging with the channels.
Video marketing is on the rise, so it’s no surprise that the social media giants are fighting over which will be the dominating platform for video distribution. YouTube has long run the show, but Facebook’s share in the marketplace has been growing at a faster rate. Should YouTube be worried? Download our latest white paper and get all the facts!
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site launched in 2002. It has over 70 million registered users from more than 190 countries. LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, and it was founded by Reid Hoffman and others from PayPal. Bing is a web search engine owned by Microsoft that was launched in 2009 and powers search for AOL. It uses semantic technologies from Powerset acquired by Microsoft. WordPress is an open-source content management system used by over 12% of the top 1 million websites as a blogging platform and website builder, launched in 2004.
In the 18 months since Google Plus launched Pages, brands have been tentatively exploring Google's fledgling and enigmatic social network. But, determining how Google+ fits into a brand's growing social ecosystem can be a challenge. In this Critical Mass POV, our social media team reviews the most interesting features and benefits to brands using Google+ Pages, outlines some great use-cases and offers some guidance on how your brand may want to approach Google+.
This document provides a summary of key events in social media and technology from June 2012. It discusses how search has become more social through features like Google+ and Bing integrating social profiles. Legislation around copyright is mentioned like SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. Facebook launched timeline pages and open graph apps. Google+ introduced pages for brands. Pinterest is described as a new visual social bookmarking service driving traffic and purchases. LinkedIn acquired Slideshare and Facebook acquired Instagram. The death of check-ins on location-based services is noted along with Eastman Kodak filing for bankruptcy despite inventing digital cameras.
YouTube is an internet website that specializes in publishing user-posted video clips. It was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Originally intended as a video version of a dating site, it evolved into a platform for sharing all types of videos. YouTube's success is partly due to its simple interface that allows videos to play quickly. It was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006.
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and comment on videos. The document discusses how YouTube was launched in 2005 and grew rapidly, serving over 100 million videos per day by 2006. A web crawler was used to collect data from YouTube, including over 300 user profiles and relationships between users like friendships and subscriptions. The collected data was analyzed to understand how human social interactions shape the technological networks on YouTube, with distributions of content and relationships following power-law functions consistent with small-world network models.
This document provides instructions on various ways to access and use YouTube. It discusses registering for a YouTube account which requires creating a linked Google account. It also covers subscribing to channels, finding new videos, and using likes/dislikes and comments. The document reviews browser extensions for customizing the YouTube experience and exploring embedded video options. Additionally, it outlines accessing YouTube on mobile devices via apps and the mobile website. Finally, it discusses options for streaming YouTube to a home theater PC or TV like the YouTube Remote app and Google TV.
The document summarizes YouTube optimization strategies for content creators. It discusses YouTube partner programs that allow creators to monetize content and manage copyrights. It provides tips for optimizing a YouTube channel, including using custom thumbnails and titles, descriptive tags and metadata, strategic use of annotations and cards, and choosing the appropriate video categories and privacy settings. The document aims to help creators expand their audience and monetization opportunities on YouTube.
This document discusses various online collaboration and content sharing tools including Google Docs, Delicious, Picasa, and YouTube. Google Docs allows online creation and editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets users tag and share web bookmarks. Picasa is a photo editing and sharing program from Google. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share videos.
A talk on "Deployment Strategies For Web 2.0" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the University of Nottingham on 12 March 2007.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/nottingham-2007-03/
This document discusses using internet and social networking tools in engineering education. It describes research showing social networking can positively impact student learning and relationships with mentors. A study is described that assessed engineering students' use of a Facebook group page for a class, finding most believed it helped their learning and goals. The document also provides details on the anatomy and uses of Facebook, SkyDrive, graphic software, mathematical packages, and multimedia in engineering education.
On the road? At an Internet Café? Using someone else's computer? Your office can't afford Photoshop? Here is a overview of a few of the different image editing and creating tools available to make quick edits in your web browser. Note - 1) you'll probably have to mix and match tools to complete your task; 2) not all online tools are compatible with all platforms or browsers. Plan on tinkering a bit to get what you want.
Primer on Open Licenses and Intellectual PropertyUna Daly
This document provides an overview of open licenses and intellectual property presented by Kathleen Omollo on May 14, 2014. It discusses how open licenses allow legal sharing and remixing of content through options like Creative Commons that allow attribution, non-commercial use, and sharing alike. The presentation promotes adopting open educational resources to expand access to education and support teaching and learning. It explains key concepts like copyright and public domain, and how open licenses maintain some rights while allowing propagation of content through copies, derivatives and other transformations.
The document discusses various cloud storage services including SlideShare, Scribd, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Drive. It provides an introduction to cloud storage and tips for using cloud storage. For each service, it describes what the service is, how people use it, its website URL, and how to register. SlideShare allows sharing presentations, Scribd allows sharing documents, Picasa allows organizing and editing photos, YouTube allows uploading and sharing videos, and Google Drive provides file storage and sharing through Google Docs.
YouTube is a video sharing website launched in 2005 that allows users to upload, view, and share videos. It became owned by Google after being acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. The website was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Users can upload videos up to 15 minutes in length and view videos from around the world. YouTube also has apps available for mobile devices and platforms like Xbox and Apple TV.
- Former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. The first video uploaded was titled "Me at the zoo" and shows YouTube founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- YouTube quickly grew popular, with 13 hours of new videos uploaded every minute by 2007. The site consumed as much bandwidth as the entire internet in 2000.
- The user uploading the document has been a YouTube member since 2006 and has uploaded around 7,000 videos. They feel YouTube is great for finding specific interests and subscriber channels instead of relying on programmer recommendations.
Google in the Classroom: Google Groups And Sites PresentationKristin Dragos
Presented at the Illinois Association of Teachers of English Conference 2009 in Rockford, IL. This presentation documents ways Google Groups and Google Sites can be used in the classroom.
Flickr is a photo sharing website and online community that allows users to upload, organize, and share photos. It has over 7 million registered users who upload over 5,000 photos per minute. Flickr revolutionized how photos are shared both for professional and amateur photographers. The community aspect is a key part of Flickr, with users tagging photos, commenting, and forming groups around interests. The strong online community also leads to real world meetups. While basic accounts are free, pro accounts provide more storage and capabilities for an annual fee.
This document discusses various aspects of social media. It begins by defining social media as media that is designed to be shared through commenting, sending, and viewing with no high costs. It then lists some top social media websites and compares the key differences between traditional media and social media. The document goes on to discuss specific social media tools and platforms like blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, content sharing sites, and more. It provides examples of how these can be used for marketing purposes and shares statistics about social media usage.
SmugMug is a paid photo sharing website launched in 2002 that allows users to upload and sell photos and videos. Minus is a chat and photo app that lets users meet strangers from around the world. Photobucket is a free image and video hosting site and online community created in 2003 that is widely used for personal and business purposes like embedding on blogs. Flickr is an image hosting site acquired by Yahoo in 2005 that is popular for sharing personal photos and hosting images for blogs and research. ImageShack is an image hosting service that was free but switched to a paid subscription model in 2014, and generates revenue from advertising on the free tier.
Photobucket was founded in 2003 and became the number one photo sharing website, with over 22 million monthly users and 90 million total users. It allows users to upload, edit, share, and embed photos for personal or business use. Though it faced a hacking incident in 2008, Photobucket remains easy to use with a clean interface and is seen as having a positive future with continued growth potential.
The document provides a brief history of the development of the Internet from its origins in the 1960s with ARPANET to modern technologies and websites. It traces major developments like the creation of email in 1971, the world wide web in 1991, popularization of web browsing in the 1990s, and the rise of social media sites from the 2000s like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The document also includes definitions of Web 2.0 that emphasize user interactivity, collaboration, and sharing of user-generated content online.
The document discusses the history and evolution of social media from its earliest origins in computer networking in the 1960s and 1970s. It notes that while computer networking was initially developed for military purposes, as networks expanded, users began using them to discuss topics of mutual interest and reconnect with others. Early forms of social media included UseNet in 1979, which allowed communication through virtual newsletters. The document then provides brief descriptions of popular social media platforms that emerged in the late 20th/early 21st century like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and others. It concludes by discussing how social media has become an important part of marketing strategies for many businesses.
The document discusses the early history and development of the internet and social media. It notes that in the 1970s, as computer networking expanded beyond the military, people began using connected computers to discuss topics of interest and reconnect with others. Early forms of the internet in the 1960s included CompuServe and the development of basic email. By the 1970s, networking technology had improved and UseNet allowed for communication through virtual newsletters. The document then provides brief descriptions of popular social media platforms that emerged in the late 20th/early 21st century like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and others. It notes that social media is now an integral part of marketing and outreach for many businesses.
This document analyzes and compares three photo sharing websites/apps: Dropbox, Photobucket, and Tumblr. Dropbox allows private photo storage and sharing with 2GB of free storage but lacks photo editing. Photobucket offers basic editing with 250 free images but a less polished interface. Tumblr allows unlimited free uploads and easy creation of visual stories, though images are limited to 1280x1280 pixels and data is shared with third parties. The document outlines pros and cons of each along with evaluation criteria.
Web 2.0 refers to second-generation web services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users, such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies. It is characterized by enabling users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content. Tim O'Reilly is considered a key early proponent of the term and concept of Web 2.0.
Slides for a presentation for the eGems series on using Mashup techniques to create useful spaces for classes, learner groups and communities of practice.
Web 2.0 refers to websites that allow users to easily publish content and share it with others. Key aspects include content existing online rather than locally, everyday users publishing without special skills, and other users sharing the content. Popular examples of Web 2.0 sites include blogs, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and smartphones that access these services. While Web 2.0 enables sharing, users must be aware of privacy and security issues when putting personal information online.
Photobucket is a free photo and video hosting service that allows users to upload, share, and find images and videos to share on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Founded in 2003 and acquired by News Corp in 2007, Photobucket has over 23 million monthly users who upload over 4 million photos and videos per day from various devices.
This document discusses several photo sharing websites - Flickr, Photobucket, and Picnik. It provides information on signing up for free accounts on each site and the features they offer like uploading, organizing, editing and sharing photos. The document also discusses using these sites for educational purposes, noting advantages like creating student portfolios and encouraging collaboration, as well as potential disadvantages like privacy and copyright issues.
This document discusses several photo sharing websites - Flickr, Photobucket, and Picnik. It provides information on signing up for accounts, uploading and editing photos, and sharing photos. Flickr allows uploading of 200 photos for free accounts and more features for paying accounts. Photobucket allows hosting and sharing photos for free. Picnik is an online photo editing tool that can be used to edit photos from sites like Flickr and Photobucket. The document also discusses advantages and disadvantages of using photo sharing sites for educational purposes in the classroom.
The document discusses how to use Web 2.0 tools and social media to share information and connect with others. It provides an overview of blogs, what they are and why people read and write them. It also summarizes what Facebook is and how to set up a basic profile and page. The document encourages utilizing feeds, tags and links to attract readers and share content regularly.
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The emergence of web 2.0 began with a brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and Media Live International to make the internet relevant again after the dot-com crash. Web 2.0 describes changes to how software developers use the internet, especially the rise of user-generated content and social media through technologies like blogs, wikis, social networking sites. While these new technologies enable users to create and share digital content, social networking also raises privacy and security concerns when personal information is shared online. Mahara is an online portfolio and social networking tool that allows users to create, share, and restrict access to collections of their work and learning experiences.
Web 2.0 enables interactive information sharing and user-centered design. Multimedia combines different media types like video, audio and images. Web 2.0 benefits multimedia through better social participation and description of media. Multimedia benefits Web 2.0 with tools like automatic summaries and face recognition tagging. Popular multimedia sites include Flickr, YouTube, and Last.fm for photo, video and music sharing respectively. Future multimedia may have automatic annotation and speaker recognition to improve searching.
The document discusses the new media technologies used during the construction, research, planning and evaluation of a media studies coursework project. It describes how various online tools, software programs and devices were used:
- Websites like Mindomo, Dafont, YouTube, and Blogger were used for planning, research, and presenting coursework. Software including Microsoft Paint, Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe programs helped with construction.
- A computer was used for research, construction and evaluation. A Sony camera and iPhone were used for filming. Microsoft Excel helped create surveys.
- Technologies like YouTube, Powtoon, blogs, and slideshare supported evaluation by sharing content and collecting audience feedback. Overall, a wide
LikesBay helps grow social networks on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube. Social media encompasses blogs, social networks, and forums that allow people to share information, communicate with peers, and influence others. Popular social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn, which have hundreds of millions of users sharing posts, videos, photos, and profiles. Social media provides opportunities for businesses to connect with customers, gather feedback, and promote their brand.
1. Abigail Coers
Advertising 400
Research Paper
30 September 2010
The History of Photobucket
Seven short years ago as digital photos became well-known, Alex Welch and Darren
Crystal developed a photo hosting site allowing individuals to share media with friends, family,
and the world wide web. Photobucket was founded as a way for people of all ages to store and
share photos and other media. In July 2007, Fox Interactive Media took over and in December
2009 Ontela, Inc merged to become Photobucket Corporation (Photobucket). Ontela, Inc. is a
way for mobile users to upload media straight from a wireless device to Photobucket
(Photobucket). As years progress and digital media is the new print photo, Photobucket is
constantly adding members on a daily basis.
The number one photo-sharing website is home to 22 million users monthly and 90 million
total registered users, including those with free memberships and those with paid memberships.
As a member of Photobucket, users are able to embed photos into websites, create numerous
albums, develop and share scrapbooks, and most commonly known for the ability to link photos
to social media sites.
Although a basic membership is free, Photobucket makes revenue by offering additional
features to members who choose the Pro account. Pro accounts include larger storage space,
longer videos, unlimited bandwidth, higher quality, and discounts on purchases from the
Photobucket store (CrunchBase). Alongside of Pro accounts, Photobucket also makes revenue by
advertisements. These advertisements can be seen throughout the website, especially on free
membership profiles/sites (Strickland). Users of the site include large and small businesses, all
ages of individuals, and families.
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2. Photobucket offers a solution to individuals who want to share, edit, or embed photos and
media into other websites. This media site does not solve any particular ‘problems’ the user may
have, but it does provide similar features as numerous other media sites. As other photo
uploading sites have evolved, competition is a factor that Photobucket has faced. The greatest
competition is Flickr which is a site that offers similar service as Photoshop (PhotoBucket
Overview).
The primary use of Photobucket is to share photos. Some companies use this service to
share photos of their business in order to gain publicity, while others store their photos, and still
other individuals edit them using the online program. The need of companies and individuals
placing photos on the web is solved with a unique URL for each photo.
Photobucket once changed the way people communicate via graphics online. Graphics were
not always easily accessible. Photobucket has created public albums for anyone visiting the site
to view and, depending on the copyright, use the photo .Individuals would have to be an expert
in photo editing to use software and if you needed a photo of a particular event, it required
actually attending and capturing the moment. With Photobucket, it is possible to simply log-in,
click upload, easily edit the photo, and share it with others or add it to another site. Photobucket
changed the way content is viewed among consumers.
Photobucket may take the blame for the decline in photo printing. A changing way of
viewing photos evolved from Photobucket. No longer do people have to leave their house or
even use paper and ink to show off their moments, but simply insert a camera chip to the
computer. The downside of making a photo album public for friends and family is that anyone
on the internet is able to view the photos. Due to this, privacy is an issue and individuals’
personal lives can simply be invaded.
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3. In 2008, Photobucket was hacked into by Turkish residents. They altered the
Photobucket homepage so upon entering the site, these users were instead directed to a site
written in Turkish language (Strickland). This re-directed site created by the hacker group, called
NetDeliz, greeted the Photobucket users that day on the re-directed page (Leyden). The message
only appeared for about one hour, however some users were affected for longer periods of time.
This crisis did not allow private information such as passwords and registration fields to be
released (Leyden).
Aside from the 2008 hacking, there have been no known security issues with
Photobucket. The privacy policy is located on the Photobucket website. It explains the security
of the site including encrypting of financial information and the use of secure socket layer (SSL)
to protect the user. With anything, it is extremely difficult to be fully safe, but Photobucket does
include in the privacy policy that they “…cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you submit to us and you do so at your own risk” (Photobucket). Photobucket is
mostly public information with the media that is uploaded; therefore threats are not a common
topic with the company.
Although problems from hacking into the site and stealing users information is not
expected in the upcoming years, other issues may arise concerning the size of membership. On a
daily basis, membership is increasing and media is uploaded. Individuals would think the greater
amount of media being stored on the site would slow Photobucket down, however this does not
seem to be the case. Photobucket does not issue any warnings or sightings of problems
occurring with the growing number of members.
If the rate of membership grows a substantial amount, Photobucket will work to maintain
the site to be the best among competitors such as Flickr (PhotoBucket Overview). Flickr and
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4. Photobucket are very similar when dealing with the basic components of uploading, storing, and
sharing photos. Among all, Photobucket has been very reliable in the past and trusted by users
since the start in 2003.
Users are able to use Photobucket for numerous ways concerning media. Some may
choose to upload the hours of video provided, share hundreds of photos, and also use the site as a
great place to land publicity for a company (PhotoBucket Overview). Corporations are able to
use Photobucket for the same reasons individuals use this site. Uploading a public photo or
video allows visitors to the site to view logos, events, photos, and video of the company. This
allows individuals who may not know about a corporation to gain knowledge about it. This is
also a great feature for corporations as well. If they are using the basic service, the publicity is
offered for free therefore the corporation has nothing to lose.
An educational institution could also use Photobucket for public relations work the same
way as a corporation. The photos not only could be viewed by the public, but they could also be
stored on Photobucket for use in other websites and programs. Educational institutions such as
the University of Illinois College of ACES uses a site similar to Photobucket. The site used is
called stock xchng. The College of ACES is able to store photos for use in publications and also
for viewing of the public. However, users are not always able to ‘copy and paste’ photos, but
need to go through a process in order to use these photos in their own work.
Non-profit institutions also are able to do public relations work with Photobucket. The free-
of-charge package makes a cheap way to get a name into the public. Non-profit institutions
should take advantage of this free service available. Non-profit organizations could easily use
the site for publicity among users. However, the site cannot be used to raise funds among
individuals or to do business with others. Individuals, corporations, educational institutions, and
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5. basically any other organization are able to use Photobucket for the use of storing and sharing
media.
Photobucket offers various features to members, and even better features to paying
memberships. Keeping the basic membership free, will increase the numbers of members and
help the site to keep the title of “the number one photo sharing website” (Photobucket).
Photobucket is easy-to-use and also easy to access photos being searched. On the home page of
the website, there are albums with headings such as “vintage funny,” “art,” “black and white,”
and more (Photobucket). These albums separate types of photos and edits into categories that
users may find interesting. This look and content of the web page creates a sense of organization
and fun to the site. The clean overall look of the site may be just one reason the public uses this
photo hosting site over others.
Being a member of Photobucket, I can speak about the ease of use. After uploading media, a
URL can be sent to family or friends to share photos and other media. I use this feature when I
want to share an album to someone who is miles away, but I do not want everyone to see my
pictures. Also, there is an option to embed photos, or add them to sites such as Facebook.
Photos are also able to be edited. This includes adding color, effects, and text. Albums on the
front page of Photobucket are examples of many edited photos.
Photobucket is a social media website that is capable of serving anyone with a need for
media. Whether one needs to simply store photos or would like to edit them to eventually create
prints, Photobucket is able to get the job done. Photobucket has proven itself to the public with a
safe website and positive feedback from members. The social media site, Photobucket, is user-
friendly, top-ranked, and has succeeded and continues to succeed with growth over the years and
years to come.
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