Comments on: A Pharmaceutical Company Buys Out Your Drug Dealer http://kulpreetsingh.com/microsoft-facebook Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Robert Ballantyne http://kulpreetsingh.com/microsoft-facebook#comment-36 Robert Ballantyne Thu, 08 May 2008 05:58:27 +0000 http://kulpreetsingh.com/?p=24#comment-36 I loved flickr until that monster, Yahoo!, gobbled it up. For months I used AllYouCanUpload, which was a terrific service hosted Webshots. Webshots was owned by CNet -- so I felt that the site was fairly secure. The AllYouCanUpload FAQ promised that the pictures would be there forever. I thought that that word didn't leave too much room for misinterpretation. Then American Greetings bought Webshots. Not surprisingly, they shut down the great but free service, AllYouCanUpload. So far, the pictures that I uploaded to AllYouCanUpload are still showing up on my blog. Well, I still did not want to deal with flickr, so I paid Webshots for a year. I have no interesting in anything to do with their site, but I need it as a place to stash pictures that I will use elsewhere, such as on my blog. Here, take a look http://howesound.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/farewell-to-comet-holmes-star-maps-april-may-2008-large-tides-may-6/ Those maps are the 200px thumbnails. For some people (such and me and my friend on Linux) if you click the thumb you will be taken to a #403 FORBIDDEN error page. If you do see that, put your cursor at the end of the url in the navigation bar and hit return. So, it is not forbidden, it is a bug. The people at webshots say that the problem is that their site is optimized for Internet Explorer and if I want to see my pictures I should make that my default browser. Really. (I use a Mac, but the problem is not that I cannot see the pic, it is that many people cannot... but they don't get it.) So, I am regretfully considering flickr... which, at least, works. Phooey. How do you avoid the monsters? I loved flickr until that monster, Yahoo!, gobbled it up.

For months I used AllYouCanUpload, which was a terrific service hosted Webshots. Webshots was owned by CNet — so I felt that the site was fairly secure. The AllYouCanUpload FAQ promised that the pictures would be there forever. I thought that that word didn’t leave too much room for misinterpretation.

Then American Greetings bought Webshots. Not surprisingly, they shut down the great but free service, AllYouCanUpload. So far, the pictures that I uploaded to AllYouCanUpload are still showing up on my blog.

Well, I still did not want to deal with flickr, so I paid Webshots for a year. I have no interesting in anything to do with their site, but I need it as a place to stash pictures that I will use elsewhere, such as on my blog.

Here, take a look http://howesound.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/farewell-to-comet-holmes-star-maps-april-may-2008-large-tides-may-6/
Those maps are the 200px thumbnails. For some people (such and me and my friend on Linux) if you click the thumb you will be taken to a #403 FORBIDDEN error page. If you do see that, put your cursor at the end of the url in the navigation bar and hit return. So, it is not forbidden, it is a bug.

The people at webshots say that the problem is that their site is optimized for Internet Explorer and if I want to see my pictures I should make that my default browser.

Really. (I use a Mac, but the problem is not that I cannot see the pic, it is that many people cannot… but they don’t get it.)

So, I am regretfully considering flickr… which, at least, works. Phooey. How do you avoid the monsters?

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