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Does the world net yet another fr*e image hosting service? Webshots thinks so. They have launched Allyoucanupload.com, where users can upload images for free.

I’ve experimented with several image management solutions, ideally to keep images in blog posts out of the database and safe and secure in their own repository. Flickr and a few others all do just about the same thing, keep your images on another server, backed up and hopefully available 24×7.

The webshots solution is simple and bare bones. Similar to the 10’s of other photo sharing services out there.

Additional features like hi-res downloads, no ads and storage of up to 5,000 images costs $2.49 a month.

The press release mentions the ability to upload 10 images at a time even though the site only let me upload three images at a time. Guess you have register for that, which kind of goes against the whole benefit pitch of not having to register.

I’d really like to see dating sites take a cue from social networking and do deals with photo and video sharing sites, the more multimedia the better.

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