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Webshots adds video sharing

Webshots VideoCNet's popular web photo-sharing site Webshots has taken the obvious next step of launching its own video sharing feature. Aficionados of YouTube and other video sharing sites won't find much here they haven't seen before. The features are pretty standard. Upload your videos, embed them in your blog or web site, leave comments. You get the idea. The site boasts larger and higher-quality videos than most sites, but also has limits other sites don't. If you're a non-paying member you're limited to five-minute videos and up to 100 videos uploaded, plus 10 more for every month you're a member. If you're a paying premium member that goes up to 10 minutes, 250 videos, plus 25 for each month of membership.

While Webshots' new video features aren't bad by any means, if it's their aim to differentiate their service from the ever-growing crowd, they need to drop the arbitrary limitations. Existing Webshots users and people who want their videos and photos in one place (and who aren't already using Photobucket) will probably take advantage of the new video features, it's going to be a hard sell to people who are already happy with YouTube or its dozens of cousins.

You can check out Webshots' embedded player after the jump (ooh, elephants!), or see a few promo videos on Webshots.

[Via TechCrunch via Techmeme]

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AllYouCanUpload: Unlimited photo uploads from CNet

AllYouCanUploadAllYouCanUpload is a new image hosting site from CNet's Webshots. Unlike Webshots, it's in the ImageShack/PhotoBucket camp, intended not for browsing like Flickr, but for hosting photos and images to be used on other web sites. Like ImageShack, AllYouCanUpload is a free, no-login service and the upload form is right on the front page, and the service is completely devoid of advertising. There are no file size limits and no limit on total storage of number of images uploaded. Its most notable feature, though, is that there are no bandwidth constraints, so if you upload a file that becomes immensely popular, it won't get taken down as with some other services. That feature is by no means unique to AllYouCanUpload, but it's nice to see. Like ImageShack, once you upload an image you have to hang on to the URL or you'll never get it back. If you're interested in such things, CNet's Martin Green writes a bit about the service, and CNet's new "Haystack" back-end storage system, in his blog.  Now, how long before ImageBot will work with it?

[Via TechCrunch]

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