Flickr

I chose to evaluate the Flickr web site. Flickr is owned and made available by the Yahoo! Incorporation. Flickr provides storage for photos and video and helps users make their content available to the people that matter to them. Flickr is constantly striving to enable new ways for users to organize, customize, share, and edit their photos or video. Flickr users can upload from the web, cameras, cell phones, a personal computer or whatever photo software they are using.
A Flickr account comes with the use of the editing program called Picnik, with which, users can get rid of red eye, crop and resize a photo and even get creative with fonts and effects. You can get creative in other ways as well! You can customize a photo to fit the size and theme of your photo book, print framed pictures, and create the family Christmas card, all on the Flickr web site.
With Flickr, you can choose to make your photos and video available to everyone, just a private few, or no one else. In addition to choosing who can view your photos or video, you can even give others permission to comment on, organize, add notes to and even edit your content. Users can also create and manage a photo blog with comments and more! Flickr makes sharing your content easy and personal. Through groups and privacy controls you can choose how you share your content. Photo groups, you may choose to belong to, show you others that share common interests with you. You can even share where your photos or videos were taken and see other photos or videos that were taken near you. This feature allows you to explore the world in an unique way.
Being able to choose how you organize your content is another great feature that Flickr offers. You can organize your content by theme, date, people, location, or anyway you want to. You can create a set of just summer vacation pictures, and then add that set to your vacation collection. Batch, set, and collection options for organizing your content also allows for batch, set, and collection editing. Flickr offers you the ability to organize your content in just about any way you can imagine. Flickr features for editing and organizing go on and on.
I personally use Flickr and I love it! A Flickr account is free and easy to set up. However, the free Flickr account only comes with a certain amount of storage space and features. If you want more storage space and features you can update your account to Pro which costs $24.95 a year or about $2.00 a month. A Pro account includes: unlimited uploads, storage, sets and collections, access to your original files, ad-free browsing and sharing, stats on your account, and HD playback for high-definition uploads.
I use web based storage because all of my photos and video are in one convenient location that is easy to access, the web is still there if my house burns down and because I can organize and edit them in any way I want to with just the click of a mouse. However, I do think of a few reasons why web-based storage might not be the best way to store all my photos.