Uploading-Sharing-and-Image-Hosting-Platforms.pptx

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1. Uploading, Sharing, and Image Hosting Platforms

2. What is Platform? A platform is any hardware or software used to host an application or service. An operating system and coordinating programs that use the instruction set for a particular processor.

3. What is Uploading? Uploading is the transition of a file from one computer system to another. From a network user’s point of view, to upload a file is to send it to another computer that is set up to receive it.

4. What is Photo Sharing? Photo sharing websites allow users to upload their images to share with their online friends, or indeed the entire web. Most photo sharing sites are free to use and offer plenty of handy tools.

5. Young people in particular are teen users of digital photography. Many teens like taking pictures of socializing with friends and share the images online through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.

6. Widely-used Uploading and Photo Sharing Websites Flickr Picasa PhotoBucket Instagram

7. Flickr Flickr is perhaps the most popular photo sharing websites around. It’s probably one of the oldest too, having been on the go since photo sharing become popular.

8. It allows users to join groups similar to their interests in order to share images and there is a big focus tagging.

9. Picasa This is Google photo sharing offering. It is easy to use for google mail subscribers and offers many of the same things as the other sites. It also offers users the chance to upgrade their package to have more space and editing tools in return for a fee.

10. PhotoBucket According to some, the most popular photo sharing site in the US, PhotoBucket is the fast becoming popular in Europe. The site has many of the same features but also includes instant chat options and operates closer to the way traditional social networking websites do.

11. Instagram Instagram is perhaps the fastest growing photo sharing websites. It is popular with Twitter and Facebook users in particular as it follows people to upload their profiles. It works well on mobile platforms. Instagram also has good and easy to use editing tools which makes it popular.

12. Widely-Used Sites YouTube Vimeo Metacafe Hulu Vevo

13. What is Video Sharing? It is almost the same with the photo sharing though for video sharing, videos are what are being shared, not photos.

14. YouTube is the most popular video-sharing websites on the internet. It is created by three former PayPal employees and now becomes a subsidiary of Google. It makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of users generated and corporate media such as video clips, TV clips and music videos and other educational purpose videos.

15. YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most container formats, including .avi, .mkv, .mp4, .flv, .DivX, .ogg, .ogv. These include video formats such as MPEG-4, MPEG, VOB, .WMV and even 3GP.

16. Vimeo is a U.S based video sharing website which users can upload, share and view videos. By December 2013, Vimeo has attracted over 100 million unique visitors per month and more than 22 million registered users, following fellow video upload sites free YouTube and Facebook.

17. Metacafe is another video sharing websites for you to post your videos for free. In its early years, Metacafe was similar to other video viewing websites such as YouTube or DailyMotion. But now it has transformed to specialize in short dorm video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.

18. The fifth best video sharing site that you should know is Hulu, which is created in 2007. It is an entertainment website and it offers a variety of TV shows, movies, originals. But the point may disappoint us is that Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States, its overseas territories and Japan. It provides video in Flash Video format, including many films and shows that are available in 288p, 360p, 480p, and in some cases, 720p or 1080p HD.

19. Vevo is one of the top 10 popular free video streaming, websites in the world. It is a right place for music artist and music lovers. For music artists, they can use this platform to promote their works; and as for music lovers, they can find more wonderful songs here. Unfortunately, this websites is only available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland Spain and United States by now.

20. What is Image Hosting Platform? An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an internet website. The image host will then store the image into its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image. The uploader may also be allowed to specify online links to the hosted image, in order to embed it on other websites e.g. Linking with HTML code and with BB code. A clickable thumbnail that is linked to the full image.

21. References whatis.techtarget.com/defdinition/uploading https://www.webwise.ie/parents/explained-what-is-photo-sharing-2/ https://www.adoreshare.com/video-uploading/top-10-free-video-sharing-websites-like-youtube .