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My hatred for yfrog and ImageShack reaches new heights

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I was never a big fan of ImageShack. It remains one of the most popular web services for hotlinking images but it also remains one of the most annoying ones.

They own yfrog. I love the new yfrog. It works as a pretty impressive web client for Twitter with excellent user interface for conversations.

But ImageShack has managed to ruin it with a new policy that blocks hotlinking of images on certain domains.

The hotlinked image ends up showing an error message that the domain is not registered on their platform and it has to be done to enable the embedding.

I have noticed this problem on Trunk.ly (excellent service, you should check it out) and MetroTwit (excellent Twitter client for Windows 7! You should check it out too!).

I have been using Imgur (You should use it as your preferred image sharing service as well) as my preferred image sharing service for a long time now. I am a huge fan of it. I even have a paid account on it and I plan to continue renewing my account on it. The service offers pretty liberal hotlinking policies. The developer is a cool guy who responds to queries and suggestions. ImageShack on the other hand is this Godzilla that is ruining it for both webmasters and web users.

My ongoing ordeal with web services!

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Posterous

I am trying to switch a WordPress based blog to Posterous. It has been more than 10 days. They are still apparently working on it. I get highly personalized support. I have a free account. Waiting for the latest status on my project.

Backupify

I gave up trying to download my Flickr Pro account to my computer myself using the Flickr API. I got myself a paid account on Backupify. The service seems to have downloaded a lot of content from Flickr. But there is no notification about how many items are still to be downloaded. And how much space is being consumed in my account. They are likely to give me ZIPs for easy downloading. Waiting for an update on that too.

Happy with following products because of excellent support!

Imgur

The guy operating this service is awesome. He responds to all my queries. Even stupid ones. Best image sharing service ever!

DestroyTwitter

Hah. This has been an adventure. I do not get all the features I want. But overall, the experience is very good. Best Twitter application ever!

Bulkr

The developer did his best to help me get my Flickr account offline. He even provided me some custom builds with resume support. But the problem seems to be with my Airtel Broadband connection that somehow fails to work smoothly with Flickr API. Very good application if you are a Flickr user.