Have to vent – can’t figure out the reason why all these photo album services are sorely lacking in one area – the actual “sharing” of pics. Sure, they all say they have it, but it’s rudimentary, as in the case of Flickr, which is by far the best. Others are just plain bad, as in Picasa Hello. Am I alone in that? Am I missing something?
So I went ahead and created my own. And I strongly believe it’s a better way of “photo sharing”. Opened it to the public (called Depicto, if anyone is interested).
An another strong conviction of mine – why do we have to surrender our private info in exchange for basic services on the web, like photo storage or webmail or whatever? Flickr has been good about people’s info, but what’s going to happen to my data once yahoo gets their paws on it? (for this reason, I insisted that depicto doesn’t require accounts; so far my company went along with this…)
Am I wrong? Does my gmail have to be searched and indexed and adsensed in order to remain free? If my tiny company finances our little free image sharing toy through it’s main business, surely yahoo and google can afford it.