Photobucket picture hosting changes

[kennyw]

I just signed up for a free trial to smugmug. It looks like it would cost $4.00 per month, but it looks like it's pretty easy to use. Here's a pic I took on a recent trip to Wisconsin. Hope it shows up.

[url=https://emptysea.smugmug.com/Test-Gallery/n-zvpqNV/i-NNQ46Gx/A]

In out sit around post ride/dinner discussion last night, it was opined that the other photo hosting sites will follow photobucket in charging for 3rd party picture posting eventually ( offroad figured Facebook would as well now that they have 1.4 billion people hooked)

I would opine that, while they all may very well charge to host photos on their sites, it is less likely that they will charge for embedding photos into blogs/forums/Amazon/EBay, etc. since there is no apparent cost to them for doing this 3rd party hosting.

3rd party hosting is not free, the provider is charged money for the bandwidth (MB of traffic loaded). 3rd parties try to get the traffic to visit their website so they can generate revenue on ads for the user benefit of hosting the images.