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If you take lots of pictures, inevitably you will start to look at some place to store them for posterity, in more recent times Google has stepped up with its own take on picture storage and organising which works pretty good but is not user friendly if you like to post pictures to forums such as Rida Asia.
Photobucket had a major policy change and sneakily held a gun to members heads if they didn't pay a yearly subscription to the site enabling third party hosting, this tactic blew up in their faces and thousands of users abandoned them accusing them of media blackmail. This is the reason you may see a lot of of posts displaying an image such as this on many forums.
Many moved to Flickr, which for adding images to forums actually works a lot better and probably around 60% of the images you see on Ride Asia are hosted by Flickr. In the past few days Smugmug has acquired Flickr from Yahoo which has sent rumours flying on many social media sites, Smugmug has been around for some time and offers the photographer many options for editing shots and compiling portfolio's for members to resell.
If your a Flickr account holder you will likely have received this email informing members they have until the 25th of May to accept Smugmug's terms and conditions or you may delete your account if you wish and download your camera roll to your storage device.
Looking at Smugmug's policy on hyperlinks this is what they have to say.
"5. Hyperlinks
You may create a text hyperlink to the Site, provided such link does not portray Flickr or SmugMug or any of its Products or Services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked by SmugMug at any time. You may not frame the Site or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Site, Flickr Materials, Flickr Marks or other proprietary information without SmugMug's express prior written consent.
As a part of the Services, we may provide you with access to and use of certain personalized pages and corresponding web addresses ("URLs") that you may customize. SmugMug does not guarantee the availability of any particular web page or URL and reserves the right, at any time and at our sole discretion, to reclaim, suspend, terminate and/or transfer any such web page or URL"
So on the face of it the change should be good news for everyone, and hyperlinks will still be honored so images should not be effected but that does not mean in the future they don't go down the same path as Photobucket, but give the bad press attention Photobucket has drawn to themselves i doubt it will happen.
But never say never, watch this space
Photobucket had a major policy change and sneakily held a gun to members heads if they didn't pay a yearly subscription to the site enabling third party hosting, this tactic blew up in their faces and thousands of users abandoned them accusing them of media blackmail. This is the reason you may see a lot of of posts displaying an image such as this on many forums.
Many moved to Flickr, which for adding images to forums actually works a lot better and probably around 60% of the images you see on Ride Asia are hosted by Flickr. In the past few days Smugmug has acquired Flickr from Yahoo which has sent rumours flying on many social media sites, Smugmug has been around for some time and offers the photographer many options for editing shots and compiling portfolio's for members to resell.
If your a Flickr account holder you will likely have received this email informing members they have until the 25th of May to accept Smugmug's terms and conditions or you may delete your account if you wish and download your camera roll to your storage device.
Looking at Smugmug's policy on hyperlinks this is what they have to say.
"5. Hyperlinks
You may create a text hyperlink to the Site, provided such link does not portray Flickr or SmugMug or any of its Products or Services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked by SmugMug at any time. You may not frame the Site or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Site, Flickr Materials, Flickr Marks or other proprietary information without SmugMug's express prior written consent.
As a part of the Services, we may provide you with access to and use of certain personalized pages and corresponding web addresses ("URLs") that you may customize. SmugMug does not guarantee the availability of any particular web page or URL and reserves the right, at any time and at our sole discretion, to reclaim, suspend, terminate and/or transfer any such web page or URL"
So on the face of it the change should be good news for everyone, and hyperlinks will still be honored so images should not be effected but that does not mean in the future they don't go down the same path as Photobucket, but give the bad press attention Photobucket has drawn to themselves i doubt it will happen.
But never say never, watch this space
