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Basic Information: 1. What's The Problem That These Applications Are Trying To Solve?

Photobucket is an image and video hosting website that allows users to store and share photos and videos for personal and commercial use. It offers unlimited free storage and hosting, along with tools for creating slideshows and sharing media on social networks. While it works reasonably well overall for its intended purposes, it can sometimes be slow when loading large numbers of images. The company has expanded its offerings to include mobile apps and social features. Photobucket also provides advertising and hosting services that allow businesses to leverage its large user base and media hosting capabilities.

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Basic Information: 1. What's The Problem That These Applications Are Trying To Solve?

Photobucket is an image and video hosting website that allows users to store and share photos and videos for personal and commercial use. It offers unlimited free storage and hosting, along with tools for creating slideshows and sharing media on social networks. While it works reasonably well overall for its intended purposes, it can sometimes be slow when loading large numbers of images. The company has expanded its offerings to include mobile apps and social features. Photobucket also provides advertising and hosting services that allow businesses to leverage its large user base and media hosting capabilities.

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Basic Information 1. Whats the problem that these applications are trying to solve? Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket's image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace, Bebo, Neopets, and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals, Open Diarys, or other blogs, and message boards. Users may keep their albums private, allow password-protected guest access, or open them to the public. Photobucket advertises 99.9% uptime, and offers unlimited photo storage and a 500 videos limit for free users. Photobucket supports FTP uploads, but the user must be a Pro account holder. Windows XP Publisher is supported as an alternative to FTP. It is available in free accounts. 2. Who are the companies that provide these tools? It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. Photobucket was founded in 2003 and acquired by Fox Interactive Media, Inc., a division of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) in July 2007. Photobucket merged with Ontela, Inc., in December 2009. The combined company, known as Photobucket Corporation, has a massive audience of more than 23 million monthly unique users in the U.S.* who upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket is backed by News Corp., Steamboat Ventures, Oak Investments Partners, Voyager Capital, and Covera Ventures, and has offices in Denver, CO and San Francisco, CA.

3. On what software/interface stands or was developed? All major smartphone platforms can use this application since it is developed not only for computer use. Photobucket supports Mobile Web, iPhone, Android based devices, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7.

Evaluation / Usability 1. How well do they work? Were there any problems? Until June 2011 it offered 500MB free storage (reduced from 1GB on 19 August 2009). This reduction of storage space frustrated users, who were locked out of adding new images to their accounts unless they agreed to pay the upgrade fee. Unlimited - was 100GB but went to 25GB in July 2008 and down to 10GB on August 19, 2009 monthly bandwidth. Unlimited space and bandwidth is valid only for non-commercial use. Uploaded photos must either be smaller than 5 MB and 2048x1536 in size (20MB and 40003000 with paid account), uploaded videos must be ten minutes or shorter for free and paid accounts. Photobucket may remove content at their discretion due to violations of their TOS. It gives you a lot of functions and does exactly what you expect it to do. But one of the problems is that it sometimes gets so slow when loading the pictures, that it doesn't even react to other commands. The more pictures you have the slower it gets 2. Are there any particularly useful features, or capabilities that you wish were included that are not supported? Explain. The developers from Photobucket even offer a development API and the possibility to submit your own applications, so it is very hard to find missing capabilities, it even works on smartphones. But, it could incorporate social aspects as well as video filters & effects just to increase user possibilities to browse and share. 3. Are there other applications that you are familiar with that work similarly? Explain. There are several applications that work similarly: - Kodak Gallery - Kodak Gallery offers several different functions: sharing photos online, getting Kodak prints of digital pictures, creating personalized photo gifts and online photo storage - KodakGallery.com - Ovi Share - online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents; it provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing - http://share.ovi.com/ - Picasa - is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website - picasa.google.com

Business and Entrepreneurship Analysis 1. What advantage does a software-as-a-service solution over the Internet (vs. a software application installed on your computer) provide to this application? - Photobucket hosts approximately nine billion photos & videos! - Serve over three, sometimes four bilion images across the web to about 2.5 million different web sites on a daily basis. - With that capacity and scalability, Photobucket was an obvious choice for Twitter's photo service. - Photobucket serves about 25 million photos from mobile alone every month. - New mobile app, Snapbucket allows you to keep your original photo, so you have permanence along with fun filters & effects. 2. How might these applications be used in a business context This application can be used for advertising business. Advertisers receive exposure to a massive, participatory audience that experiences sponsored messages through custom integrations, high-impact takeovers, targeted ads, and viral executions that engage and drive awareness. Also, the company prides itself on offering advertising partners creative and impactful solutions that reach an engaged and participatory audience.

References: http://photobucket.com/about http://www.msstudentlounge.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobucket http://blog.photobucket.com/blog/photobucket_open_api/ http://photo-sharing-services-review.toptenreviews.com/photobucket-com-review.html http://www.aimatch.com/articles/press_releases/2010/10/photobucket_selects_aimatch_f or_comprehensive_online_advertising_platform/ Andreea Teodorescu, CN

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