Review of Flickr, Smugmug and Zoto

rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
edited November 30, 2005 in The Big Picture
Don't really know who this Greg Reinacker is, but he did a good job writing down his thoughts about the 3 photo sharing services. Go on and check it out:
http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/

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  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    It's no surprise that he seemed to like smugmug best.


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  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    behr655 wrote:
    It's no surprise that he seemed to like smugmug best.
    No, but still it's an interesting read, especially from someone outside of the whole community relatively objectivly showing off the good and bad things. Also it's good PR for smugmug and I guess they're happy about it as long as they can keep up with the new people coming in.

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    No, but still it's an interesting read, especially from someone outside of the whole community relatively objectivly showing off the good and bad things. Also it's good PR for smugmug and I guess they're happy about it as long as they can keep up with the new people coming in.

    Sebastian

    We're thrilled with this! It's wonderful to be recognized, and this blogger has a great audience - and thanks Sebastian and others for the real nice comments there, too.

    We can keep up - Onethumb has built a really scalable system - and we can keep up with the demand technology-wise. Our new support center in Salt Lake City is up and running, headed up by John Young - and we're answering help mails at a record pace. New themes are coming out soon - and we'll keep adding more. New features are always being implemented, but we're usually quiet about those until they're released. SmugMug's growing - I'm new on board and we're looking at more folks, too.

    So yeah, we're ready, bring 'em on thumb.gif
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    My favorite comment of the article.

    "Andy from Smugmug said the camera writes inconsistent info so they can't fix it (doubtful, as Windows XP can display the correct info for this exact same file), and Ben said it looked strange and he'd pass it along to their developers. I chose to listen to Ben. :-)"

    Is that you Andy. Common admit it. It was you wasn't it.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2005
    dragon300zx wrote:
    My favorite comment of the article.

    "Andy from Smugmug said the camera writes inconsistent info so they can't fix it (doubtful, as Windows XP can display the correct info for this exact same file), and Ben said it looked strange and he'd pass it along to their developers. I chose to listen to Ben. :-)"

    Is that you Andy. Common admit it. It was you wasn't it.

    Laughing.gif I'm just doin' my job. We're actually working on this at the moment.

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  • rahmonsterrahmonster Registered Users Posts: 1,376 Major grins
    edited November 24, 2005
    It's no wonder smugmug is growing. I signed up 2 weeks ago and I love it. I was so sick of the other free hosting I was using. My family love looking at my site...Its just so much nicer.

    And I don't understand a single bit of HTML so themes are excellent for merolleyes1.gif

    I thought that was a great article, he was honest and well written. It doesn't suprise me that he stuck with smumug. You're crazy if you don't
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 24, 2005
    rahmonster wrote:

    And I don't understand a single bit of HTML so themes are excellent for merolleyes1.gif


    And you're not alone. We have all sorts of folks using the themes, standard accts and pros alike. Hot email topic recently: "when can we have more themes???" Many other sites have templates, skins, themes, customization to a degree.. but one thing I really dig is that our themes are coming from our community - smugmug customers are designing them, talk about empowerment. And so I'm not going to miss a chance to plug theme bounties!

    Thanks for posting, Rahmonster - so happy to have you here!
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  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited November 30, 2005
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    Don't really know who this Greg Reinacker is
    He's the guy behind newsgator, which recently bought out ranchero. Most windows users would only recognize one of those names, and if your a mac user, you only would have recognized the other before the buyout.
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  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited November 30, 2005
    cabbey wrote:
    He's the guy behind newsgator, which recently bought out ranchero.
    Thanks, I actually had a look at what he was doing after posting this. Interesting product he has developed - maybe I'll give it a try.

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