March 19, 2007

Why Flickr is a lot better than Snapfish

Posted at: 11:11 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Professional, Tech and Web

Flickr is an amazing photo service which I use a lot on my blog, but my sister has not switched over yet from Snapfish. I have been trying to get her to change but she is very hesitant. She uses snapfish to share pictures of my nephew with family and friends. Before I started using flickr, I uploaded a few pictures onto Snapfish. Come to find out, you need to purchase prints at least once a year to keep your membership or your photos will be deleted.

I. Terms of Membership:
… A condition of Membership is your “Active Participation” in the Service. Active Participation is defined as sending in film or purchasing photo merchandise, including reprints and enlargements, through the Service at least once every 365 days . Purchases through Snapfish third-party advertisers, including HP Home & Home Office Store, do not count towards Active Participation. If you cease Active Participation for any reason, Snapfish may terminate your Membership (or any part thereof) and your use of the Service, and may remove and discard all information, communications, postings, albums, image files, creative material, photographs, links, comments, and other content (collectively “Content”) uploaded by you or otherwise made available by you within the Service.

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For all those who don’t think that this is fair, please sign up for a flickr account. A free Flickr account lets you have 100 MB/month of uploads and will display the last 200 photos. Once you go over 200, it will hide the photos, but it will NOT delete them. I am so happy with the service that Flickr provides, that I would rather spend $25/year for a PRO Flickr membership than buy a $.12 photo from snapfish once a year. For intense photo users, a Pro Flickr account is very useful since you do not have a quota or a limited number of sets.

Also, Flickr provides an API for you to integrate your pictures into your website using code instead of manually adding them. Snapfish does not let you do that, which is sad because web services are the way to go when dealing with users.

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