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Since the advent of Internet lot many utilities are being provided online. Every year many websites or portal surface in order to provide utility that public in general finds useful. If the site and its utilities appeal than they become very popular. Like social networking sites or social media sites there are many photo sharing sites on the Net. Most of the sites offer combined utilities like friend connection and photo and video sharing. The sites which offer these utilities differ from networking sites which are basically for online communities sometimes in the niche sector. Online publishing is a popular trend on the Net wherein one can publish articles, blogs, photos and videos of one’s own or liking. Online image hosting is publishing one’s digital images from a CD or computer file on to the site. Most of the sites offering this facility are free. The function that enable upload and display of photographs are online but some can be achieved through applications that site provides. The photos so uploaded can be for private viewing or they can be shared online with friends connected through networking facility provided by the site. Most popular photo sharing or free image hosting sites are eYaad based in UK, Flickr, Picasa and Photo bucket. Eyaad also offers video uploading facility and social networking on site. Many photograph hosting websites offers great flexibility in case of maintaining your album online. One can create thumbnails which can be enlarged and slide shows as well. The slide shows online facilitate viewing of images in a user friendly manner. The images can be categorized according to topic, date and style. These features make the image hosting sites different from photo blogs which have a chronological display of images. On photo sharing sites the images can be classified, captioned and stored in albums online. Thus one can categorize his or her images according to personal preference and store them online. The user can do this for private viewing or sharing with member friends or other users. The social networking companies offer this feature to enliven online communities with greater interactivity. Registering and creating one’s account is in most cases free and easy. The interface is user friendly such that even laymen can executes tasks without difficulty.
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