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Webshots is a photo sharing and storing site from CNET that allows you to do more with your visual content than what would have been possible by just storing them on your computer. In many ways, it is like other photo sharing sites like Flickr, MSN Photos, Kodak Gallery -- yet it does have some features that set it apart from these other sites.
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Webshots is one of the largest online photo- and video-sharing sites on the Internet, with more than 7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors as measured by The Nielsen Co. and more than 400 million digital photos stored. Webshots offers free and premium memberships with a variety of features.
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Big photo sites like Webshots have managed to maintain huge audiences, but it’s clear they have Flickr envy. Webshots is the most recent photo site to web 2.0-ify itself: a reborn Yahoo Photos launched to the public just two weeks ago. Along those lines, there are likely to be opportunities for photo-sharing startups to find buyers who want a pre-built user-generated photo-sharing community. So who’s likely to be acquired? Let’s work through the options.
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Webshots launched in 1996 by the search engine Excite as a professional photo screensaver/wallpaper site, but expanded into photo sharing in 1999. Members can upload photos and videos from their digital cameras and organize, share, and back them up online. User-generated content is organized into dozens of different categories and sub-categories (eg: vacations, news, family, entertainment, fishing, Alabama, etc.), and specific searches can narrow results.
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Webshots was purchased by CNet from Twofold Photos, Inc. in 2004 for approximately $70 million dollars. Webshots has approximately 19 million registered users posting almost a million images a day in online photo albums. A total of 400 million photos have been uploaded to date (compare to Flickr, a much younger service, with about 200 million photos). For comparison, Yahoo! Photos is reported to have 30 million users, Photobucket reports having 19 million users and Flickr approximately 2.5 million. It’s clear who’s the trendsetter here, though, and that’s liable to continue with innovations like Flickr’s rumored drag and drop geotagging in the works.
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Webshots® (www.webshots.com), is one of the internet's largest photo and video sharing communities where users connect over shared interests spanning 10 channels and thousands of sub-categories. With an average one million photos uploaded daily, Webshots enables "social theatre" by letting users present content that ranges in scope from personal events, to interest-based content, to events of worldwide significance and connect with other users through message boards, favorite user tracking, comment features and more. Webshots ... offers the opportunity to reach college students through university-specific CollegeLive landing pages. A companion site to Webshots is AllYouCanUpload.com, which is a purpose-built tool, streamlined for bloggers and others looking for fast, free, unlimited photo hosting on the proven Webshots backbone without the need to register.
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