YouTube is an online video sharing site divided into different categories for easy access. It allows users to upload their original video and share it with their friends. However, anyone with a web browser can view those videos as well. So it is like a community of sorts. Any anyone in the community can rate the video and make comments on them as well. They allow webmasters to display these videos on their own sites or blogs as well. User can bookmark their favourite videos too. Youtube is now owned by Google.

YouTube

Flickr is an extremely popular image hosting and sharing site. It hosts images and pictures which can be shared publicly or privately with your friends or relatives. You can also display your personal works to the public through Flickr and allow others to comment. Flickr also offers their users a very intelligent way of organizing their photos. You can even give your friends permission to ogranize your images for you. Adding comments, notes and tags can be easily done as well. Best of all, your images can be searched for.

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PhotoBucket is a huge and immensely popular image hosting and sharing site. You can upload your favorite photos or pictures and share them with your friends or relatives. It even allows the sharing of video content as well. A lot of surfers have began to use PhotoBucket as their main host for their online signature photos as well as for a place to put their video/image portfolio. However, all images are moderated to prevent abuse and this provides a safe and secure environment for the community. PhotoBucket gets about 17 million visitors per day and it is still growing.

PhotoBucket

Definitely a new way to view the web - through images. Cooliris is a browser plug-in which turns your browser into some sort of "super-media" browser, making your image surfing experience all that better. Basically what it does is to arrange all the images on supported sites into a long wall of pictures. You can then browse those images in a 3D environment. The supported browsers are Firefox, Internet 7 & 8 as well as Safari & Chrome. It is available as a free download.

Cooliris

Youtube alternative. And quite a big competitor as well. It does contain a huge amount of videos for your viewing pleasure. With 72 million hits per month,we are talking about massive popularity. But then most video sharing sites are pretty popular on the Internet nowadays, since everyone's on broadband these days. And just like Youtube, anyone can upload and share their videos and they have since able to stream HD quality videos. Users can choose from various categories from comedy to sports to gaming. Well, why not? Youtube can be fussy when it comes to us small video uploaders, so any competition is good news.

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Your photos look better on SmugMug or so they claim. I am sure that your photos will look good or bad no matter where they are depending on the quality right? Anyway, SmugMug is basically a photo sharing site but unlike most photo sharing sites, this is a completely paid service - so it caters mainly to professional photographers or digital artists. And there are different plans - some of which allows price of the photos to be set and purchased with the owner taking a cut of the profit. Users can upload unlimited amount of photos but the size (and hence the resolution) of the photos are limited to the plan. So if you are a photographer looking to sell your work, their services might interest you.

SmugMug

Need good quality images to liven up your website? How about enhancing your client's website to attract customers? Or what about making your website even more beautiful to impress your clients? Well, look no further, Gettyimages has one of the largest collections of royalty free photos and images on the Internet for you to choose from. They are one of the first few to provide images online to their customers legally and they are still around now. So they must be doing something right. They have over 24 million images in stock! Furthermore, they have since expanded to music and video, so for those looking to do even more to their sites, this is the site to go. All you need to do is to search for the images you need. They have many licensing schemes for various uses.

Gettyimages

Don't you wish you were the first to have thought of Youtube? Well, you can't really change the past, but you can certainly plan for the future, especially with PHPmotion. It is a open source PHP script designed to allow users to share their videos with others on the Internet. Users can then add comments, vote for their favourite videos and even share music. With a good number of freely available templates, the site design itself can also be interesting to attract visiotrs. They provide support to their script through the forums.

PHPmotion

The ultimate backup solution for small businesses. If you don't need all those fancy but confusing features but just need a secure and reliable online storage option, then this is a site for you. It comes with a flat (and reasonable) price for unlimited backup storage. Furthermore, the backups are kept securely with encryption with their own offsite backup. All you need is a small, simple-to-use software which can automatically back up your data for you and can keep track of all your backups. You can even retrieve your data anywhere from most mobile and Internet connected handheld devices. Pretty cool.

Carbonite

Yes, as the name implies, this website is all about sharing your files. So if you need to share files, all you have to do is to sign up, upload your files and share the link with your friends or co-workers. It is that simple. The best part is that you can actually share an entire folder, so you don't need to individually upload each and every file. They have even accounts for private storage, so only those you want to share with will be allowed access to it. They offer about 10GB of storage for the free accounts. For the premium account holders, you will get 100GB of storage space as well as 5GB size limit per file. You can share music, photos, videos and all sorts of files. Not only that, users can search for files in the database as well. Think of it as a file sharing network but with private access as well. They are very popular in Brazil. Perhaps Brazilians love sharing music a lot.

4shared

Tired of all those file sharing networks that does nothing else. Worried about the security of your files. Tired of all those complicated options in some file sharing network which you never make use of. Can't really collaborate with your friends or your co-workers and need something really useful? Well, you should try Ge.tt. It is a file sharing service with a difference - it allows you to truly network around the files you share. And not only that, you get to truly control the files you have. You can share with certain people, or share in with the public. You can also give full access to others while limiting access to some. And they invented something called "real-time" sharing, which means you don't need to wait till you have completed uploaded the file before sharing. It is shared and your friends can download the file immediately. Now that is a pretty cool feature. Signing up allows you access to even more management tools.

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FileFactory offers users the ability to send large files to one another. Instead of sending files using email which is very inefficient, the file is sent through a browser and an email is sent to the recipent informing them of the link. Then the recipent simply just downloads the file. No hassle. FileFactory also offers a small program called FileFactory Turbo . This program acts as a uploader byt allowing multiple files to be uploaded at once. They offer a premium service with even better speeds and features.

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Big Upload offers it users a free 500 Megabyte file sharing space. It allows users to upload their files and share it with their friends by informing them through email. If you sign up for their premium service, you can get up to 2 Gigabyte of storage space. With this premium service, you will also get higher speeds, unlimited downloads and secure storage. Big Upload also offers a paid backup service though the Internet. This service includes unlimited bandwidth and the only limit is the storage space available for each account. You can also use this service to backup your website automatically.

Big Upload

Don't you just love images? They are great to liven up a website, or even just a publication or a brochure. They can be used in different medium, especially now that we are so used to high quality images, they have become a necessity. if your website or brochure do not contain such images, it might easily be discarded or ignore totally. So yes, high quality photos and images are important. Stocklib has over 10 million royalty free images for users to choose from. And they claim that all their photos are done by professional photographers, which I kind of agree. They do stock quite a number of high quality images. The best part is that all their images are charged at the same price so you don't need to worry about your cost and budget. They do not have a subscription based pricing, only per credit. Of course, not that ideal for web designers who might find a subscription based model more suitable for their uses.

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