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Photie serves up unlimited storage for your photos

by Josh Lowensohn

I'm always on the lookout for new ways to host images for quick and dirty sharing. Worth checking out is Photie, which is an incredibly simple photo host. It's light on features, but offers unlimited storage and file sizes (great for people with 14 megapixel SLRs), along with generous sharing options both for downloading shots and hosting on external sites and social networks.

What might be its killer feature, however, is that it gives you a detailed listing of when and where your photos have been viewed. It's something you find on YouTube and Viddler for videos, which can make tracking the buzz of a certain shot more fun for the creator. Many photo services simply give you a view count, which isn't nearly as useful.

While the tracking is great, the service is not without its small annoyances. Thumbnail previews are slow to load, and tags can only be added to shots one at a time. Users of Flickr will yearn for more.

Photie.com

Photie isn't all that different from other photo hosts, but the layout is clean and free of ads, and there are simple ways to share your shots in all manner of sizes. (click to enlarge)

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Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, CNET's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh.
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by JoseCuervoTequila March 27, 2008 8:27 PM PDT
On the home page... there are explicit homosexual images. ***? I wouldn't consider uploading my family photos there. Please tell them to secure that first page.
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by DrFeelgood911 March 27, 2008 8:55 PM PDT
Photie.com is aware of the problem and it will be address as soon as possible. Thanks.
by DrFeelgood911 March 27, 2008 9:01 PM PDT
Photie.com is aware of the problem and it will be addressed as soon as possible. Thanks.
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by sandeepsharma82 March 28, 2008 3:09 AM PDT
hi
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by juddross March 28, 2008 4:13 PM PDT
Photie works crappie! Line errors and bad code abounds!
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