All about photo-sharing services

Photo sharing is one of the most popular services on the Internet and also one of its most useful services. Basically, photo sharing is about the uploading of digital photos by a user, to be shared with others either publicly or privately. The first photo-sharing applications appeared during the time when the World Wide Web itself was in its infancy, during the mid 1990s, but it was only after the dot-com bust that many of the current crop of photo-sharing applications started. One of the earliest photo-sharing applications is Webshots , which originated from a desktop screensaver software in 1995 and eventually migrated to the World Wide Web. Other popular photo-sharing services include Flickr , Photobucket , ImageShack , SmugMug, Snapfish , and Picasa , Google's photo-sharing service. In the past few years astonishingly (yet perhaps not) an entrant to the photo-sharing market is Facebook. As of writing, Facebook users upload an average of 3 billion photos...