Shutterbook: Another player in the photo-sharing arena

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Shutterbook: Another player in the photo-sharing arena

by Jordan Running Sep 5th 2005

Shutterbook, a photo sharing and management site, may be accused of bandwagon-jumping, but it does have a great interface going for it. It's mostly Flash-based, but is attractive and responsive. It lacks the community aspect that attracts the Flickr crowd, which may be a big turn-off for some, but does allow comments and has a blog featured. Shutterbook is currently in private beta, and there's a reasonably good demo you can check out before registering.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Chris said 12:14AM on 9-06-2005

How many of these photo sharing services really have any features that can compete with Flickr? Flickr is the undisputed king, and I haven't seen any that come close. Why do people bother creating a service that doesn't even have anything original in it?

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