Orkut Increases Photo Storage

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Orkut recently announced to increase their silly limit of 50 photos per user to 10,000 and up to 10MB per photo. Now let’s do some simple math, 10,000 photos * 10MB/photo = ~100GB of photo storage, and guess what, you need to pay about $200 per year to have that much storage in Picasa Web Albums (PWA doesn’t have a 100GB plan, but it has a 150GB plan for $250 a year).

Not that everyone have cameras that take 10MB photos, but still (I have ~1700 photos - mostly 6 megapixels - on PWA right now and it takes a bit over 1GB - PWA probably compressed them).

A couple of downsides are that you can’t upload photos directly from Picasa (or any other major photo management tools that I know of. They do have bulk uploader for Internet Explorer and Firefox though, but the link for the Firefox one is currently showing a “Cannot be found” page) and no API to access the photos (you can always roll o [...]
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Date : 2008-05-07 01:16:57
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