Orkut Increases Photo Storage
Orkut, Picasa May 6th, 2008 - By Haochi
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 out your own!).
May 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
NINE THOUSAND GIGAWATTS???!?
:P
July 31st, 2008 at 4:46 am
Its unbelievable !
I am surprise to hear this news dear. Thanks for sharing with us. Now I can upload as many photos of my tours and can share with my whole orkut group.
Thanks again Haochi
November 9th, 2008 at 1:31 am
what kind of servers do they have :| ?
If Picasa is their project, how come they offer the same storage for free on other project of them!
Kinda strange huh