| Media Hosting Sites
Media Hosting Websites offer free space to upload images, audio and video to the web. Once files have been uploaded they can be viewed via a web browser. Content can be posted to blogs, wiki’s, social networking sites, web pages and online presentations.
Flickr
Flickr.com is a simple website that allows you to upload
videos and images to an account you aquire during the one-time sign up process. With
Flickr you can: Show off your favorite photos to the world, Blog the photos
you take with a cameraphone and securely and privately show photos to your
friends and family around the world.
http://www.flickr.com
Photobucket
Photobucket provides free video and photo sharing. Easily host and link your
images and videos to social networks, auction sites, blogs, and message boards.
Photobucket is reliable and very easy to use. The one bad thing about Photobucket
is the sign up feature, unlike Image Shack and Tiny Pic you WILL have to
set up an account before you can begin uploading your files for internet
posting.
http://www.photobucket.com
Image Shack
ImageShack is
an intuitive and easy-to-use free image hosting solution. It can be used
to share pictures with friends, as well as to post images on message boards
and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images on your personal website
or online auction. ImageShack® is
completely free. Another ket feature is the Image Shack Widget which is downloadable
for all new Apple computers and allows one-click image hosting!
http://www.imageshack.us
Tiny Pic
TinyPic.com is a very simple, fast, reliable free video and image hosting site.
It is perfect for linking to myspace, auctions, message boards, journals,
and other websites. TinyPic lives on a fully redundant, load balanced web
cluster that should guarantee maximum uptime and performance. There is no
registration or login, all you have to do is submit your picture.
http://www.tinypic.com
The Image Hosting
"The Image Hosting" is a free image hosting
solution that can be used to share pictures with friends, post images on message
boards and blogs, and direct link images from your personal website or online
auction (hot linking allowed free). It generates thumbnails for photos that
are larger than 200x200 pixels in resolution. Registration is required to use
the service. Limitations: You may upload as many images as you like, as long
as each of them is less than 1024 kb (1 MB) in size; File types allowed: .jpg,
.jpeg .gif, .png, .swf (Flash files); You are not allowed to hot link fullsize
images on any large-scale, non-forum websites; No images will be deleted for
inactivity.
http://www.theimagehosting.com/
Pure Upload
"Pure Upload" is a free image hosting server
where you can upload and host online pictures for free without registering
(sign-up is optional for more features). You can hotlink a small clickable
thumbnail (auto-created by the server's script) which is altered to show the
images original pixel size and file size beneath the thumbnail. The fullsize
image is shown on a webpage with ads. Non-members are restricted to uploading
images of no more than 2MB in size, while registered members may upload up
to 3MB images. File types supported are jpeg, jpg, png, gif, tif, tif image
file extensions. Inactive images (pictures not downloaded or viewed) for more
than 60 days are deleted from the free hosting server.
http://ww1.pureupload.com
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