Uploading, Sharing, and Image

hosting platforms
 Uploading platforms

Uploading is the transmission of a file from one

computer system to another.
From a network user’s point-of-view , to upload a file is
to send it to another computer that is set up to receive it.
People who share images to others on bulletin board
services upload files to the BBS.
 Sharing platforms

Photo Sharing
 Photo Sharing websites allows users to upload their images to
share with their online friends, or indeed the entire web.
 Young people in particular are keen users of digital
photography . Many teenagers like taking pictures of
socializing with friends and share the images online through
social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
 Most photo sharing sites are free to use and offer plenty of
handy tools.
 Here is a list of some of the most popular and widely –used
photo sharing websites:

FLICKR
 Flickr is perhaps the most popular photo sharing website around.
 It’s probably one of the oldest too, having been on the go since photo
sharing became popular.
 It allows users to join groups similar to their interests in order to share
images and there is a big focus tagging.
 Picasa
It’s easy to use for Google Mail subscribers and offers
many of the same things as the other sites.
It also offers users the chance to upgrade their package
to have more space and editing tools in return for a fee.
 Photobucket
The most popular photo sharing site in the US,
Photobucket is fast becoming popular in Europe.
The site has many of the same features but also includes
instant chat options and operates closer to the way
traditional social networking websites do.
 Instagram
The fastest growing photo sharing website.
It is popular with Twitter and Facebook users in
particular as it allows people to upload to their profiles.
It works well on mobile platforms. Instagram also has
good and easy-to-use editing tools which makes it
popular.
 Video Sharing

It is almost the same with the photo sharing though for
video sharing, videos are what are being shared not
photos.
 Top 5 Free Websites
Youtube
Vimeo
Metacafe
Hulu
Vevo
 YouTube

The most popular video-sharing website on the internet.

It makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML’s
technology to display a wide variety of user-generated
and corporate media video such as video clips, TV clips,
music videos, and other content such as video blogging,
short original videos and educational videos.
YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most container formats,
including .avi, .mov, .mp4, flv, DivX, .ogg, .ogv
These include video formats such as MPEG-4, MPEG, VOB,
.WMV and even 3GP.
It is created by three former PayPal employees and now
becomes a subsidiary of Google.
 Vimeo

The next open video website to upload videos for

free introduced here is www.vimeo.com
Vimeo is a U.S.-based video-sharing website on which
users can upload, share and view videos.
By December 2013, Vimeo has attracted over 100
million unique visitors per month and more than 22
million registered users, following fellow video
upload sites free YouTube and Facebook.