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MySpace jumps on the online photo storage bandwagon

This week MySpace announced that it was looking into the possibility of acquiring mega photo sharing website Photobucket. The deal according to reports is estimated to hit roughly $250 million USD in cash. Currently, Photobucket cooperates with a number of other major social networking sites including Bebo, Blogger, Friendster and Xanga and even integrates well with eBay.

Since its launch several years ago, Photobucket has remained a free service. Account holders are able to upload roughly 10,000 photos and videos onto the website and never pay a penny. Photobucket then allows account holders to link to photos from other websites.

The relationship between MySpace and Photobucket has not always been smooth. Recently, MySpace prevented its users from linking to photos hosted on Photobucket. The two companies eventually came to an agreement and the ban was lifted.

As of right now, the deal between MySpace and Photobucket is not yet final and reports suggest that the deal could still fall through. Users on social sites that compete with MySpace such as Facebook are still uncertain of what will become of their abilities to link to photos if the deal goes through.



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MySpace
By thebrown13 on 5/8/07, Rating: 0
RE: MySpace
By Lazarus Dark on 5/8/2007 11:22:01 AM , Rating: 1
you messed up.

title should be myspace sucks.


RE: MySpace
By amolmshanbhag on 5/8/2007 11:40:54 AM , Rating: 1
yes Myspace sucks!!!!


RE: MySpace
By i4mt3hwin on 5/8/2007 12:38:45 PM , Rating: 2
How is it like google in the least bit? I'm pretty sure there were search engines long before google was ever around. As for myspace, unless they find some way to embed shitty ads into the pictures I host, I could careless. Hopefully the bandwidth limits that photobucket currently has will be raised/removed.

Either way I prefer imageshack/fileden over photobucket anyway.


RE: MySpace
By thebrown13 on 5/9/2007 11:44:09 AM , Rating: 1
Google had the first simple search engine without extra crap.

Live has the same thing now, with much better searching and an even less cluttered interface. Guess which one has the higher market share.


RE: MySpace
By Crazyeyeskillah on 5/8/2007 1:06:58 PM , Rating: 3
friendster was there over a year prior to myspace, myspace just did it better. Get your facts straight.


RE: MySpace
By crazydrummer4562 on 5/8/2007 6:13:59 PM , Rating: 2
yeah except google is good at what they do, in my opinion.


As a photobucket user
By lufoxe on 5/8/2007 9:45:19 AM , Rating: 2
I hope that this does not go through. I use it to post stuff in forums as well as ebay. If myspace takes it over it will be even more ad ridden and slower than it already is.




RE: As a photobucket user
By ksherman on 5/8/2007 9:50:47 AM , Rating: 2
You know, there are better alternatives...


RE: As a photobucket user
By Rookierookie on 5/8/2007 10:51:43 AM , Rating: 2
Personally, I think Photobucket serves my purposes well, from the free service to the paid service I'm using at the moment. I'm not confident that a MySpace acquisition will be a positive improvement.

However, during the recent issue Photobucket had with MySpace Photobucket was quite vocal in voicing their displeasure, so I'm having some doubts over this.


<no subject>
By Scabies on 5/8/2007 10:45:02 AM , Rating: 2
All those flippin Photobucket wh*res...
...wait

Photobucket is being mentioned as a (primarily) free service because... Would that change under the rule of MySpace?




cherrytap>myspace
By knowom on 5/8/2007 6:37:33 PM , Rating: 2
There's plenty of other picture/video hosting sites around so it's not much of a issue regardless of what happens same goes to the future of myspace plenty of other networking sites as well if one goes belly up another site emerges it's overrated anyways cherrytap is a hell of a lot more entertaining and actually adult orientated so it weeds out the kiddies plus I don't see the same amount of spam infestation there yet.




Ugh
By Idess on 5/8/2007 9:54:53 PM , Rating: 2
I've been using Photobucket for a long time now. With over 200 of my images stored on there, I would be very aggravated to see a 'sucky' site like MySpace taking over and doing things to it. I love the free service and the friendly and effective staff (at least in my dealings with them). It would be miserable if this went through!




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