Comments on: This looks useful

This looks useful

CunningLinguist — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:23:39 -0800

TinyPic.com - "is a very simple, fast, reliable free image host. It is perfect for linking to auctions, message boards, journals, and other websites. There is no registration or login, all you have to do is submit your picture." This looks very useful. I find the most popular pictures on the site curious though.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:47:20 -0800

Wow, sorry, suddenly a lot of those pix aren't loading.

By: Item

Item — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:47:44 -0800

Drat - I was expecting porn.

By: iffley

iffley — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:49:42 -0800

Weird! I was just about to post the addictive random peeks into other people's images from uploadyourimages.com as an FPP. More free image hosting here.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:05:13 -0800

Its a cool site but yeah, those top pics are pretty well stupid. I'd guess most people are using it to have pics to use in chats but it could be useful for auctions.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:05:59 -0800

By the way, how'd they get the pics to load from the bottom up? That's a pretty cool trick.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:06:19 -0800

rofl

By: punishinglemur

punishinglemur — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18:50 -0800

The bottom-up images are bitmap (BMP) images, the huge uncompressed things you get from Paint. For reasons unknown to me, they load, or at least appear, from bottom-up.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:22:57 -0800

When I posted this, the top few pictures were all stalkery pix of the same woman walking on the street, apparently unaware of the camera. I didn't realize the list updated to quickly.

By: jacobsee

jacobsee — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:55:31 -0800

I didn't realize the list updated to quickly. looks like when an image has 10000 hits it drops off the list. maybe they're doing mod(x,10000). yes i'm a loser for figuring that out.

By: Ayn Marx

Ayn Marx — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:01:58 -0800

Cool. Yet another way to track users. Any connection to that other spy scheme, TinyUrl?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:44:23 -0800

I don't understand - how does this site, or the same-owner photobucket.com, pay the bills? Hosting images and bandwidth is expensive. Is there some upsell from the free product?

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:58:05 -0800

ugh

By: majikwah

majikwah — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:08:22 -0800

Can it be? Brittney? Now that's stalking.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:09:45 -0800

Right now the top pics (with 10K hits) are of a man wearing a visor walking on a city street with a cute blonde toddler girl. The "furry" cartoon of metalhead animals with the caption "Insanity: Brother and Sister Forever", which was number 5, did seem odd, though.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:13:58 -0800

When I posted this, the top few pictures were all stalkery pix of the same woman walking on the street, apparently unaware of the camera. You mean this lady?

By: cadastral

cadastral — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:16:00 -0800

2008 will always rule

By: Dreama

Dreama — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:31:05 -0800

Is that Sarah Michelle Gellar dropping a wad of cash to gas up her Navigator? Three of the photos are inconclusive, but this one sure looks like her.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:31:13 -0800

Isn't that Calista Flockhart in bob sarabia's links?

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:32:19 -0800

I meant Sarah Michelle Gellar (the one who was on the TV "Buffy") not Calista Flockhart (the one who was in the stupid TV show about lawyers) but I always get those two confused.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:43:52 -0800

You mean this lady? No. That's the weird part - there are a few candids of celebs in there (I think I saw Gwyneth) but the one I meant was a very ordinary looking brunette who was not, as far as I could tell, famous. It was creepy.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:53:04 -0800

Completely fascinating. This is my new favorite.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:56:35 -0800

No, wait, this is. I may never finish my novel at this rate.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:08:45 -0800

i'm willing to bet those photos were of someone "famous" to a certain extent. I see a lot of these pictures are of celebs and are stalkerish

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:36:34 -0800

This means something. This is important. /neary

By: supershauna

supershauna — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:47:42 -0800

I saw Sarah Michelle Geller, Rob Mills from Australian Idol/Popstars (he used to date Paris Hilton too), Hugh Jackman and his son Oscar, Brittany Spears, and finally, Penn and Teller. So I guess a couple of them are kinda "famous".

By: spazzm

spazzm — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:33:24 -0800

"looks like when an image has 10000 hits it drops off the list. maybe they're doing mod(x,10000). yes i'm a loser for figuring that out." It not only drops off the list, it's deleted and replaced by an image of the TinyPic.com logo. I guess I'm the biggest loser.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:45:23 -0800

It not only drops off the list, it's deleted and replaced by an image of the TinyPic.com logo. Yes. That sucks royally. Nearly every one of the above links I clicked appeared as the TinyPic.com logo.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:44:34 -0800

Sucks, but explains their business model. You can host your pics for free *for up to 10,000* impressions - then you advertise for us...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:01:05 -0800

...and then we get more people using the free hosting, which sucks more bandwidth, and so on and so on. Still doesn't make much sense to me as a business model.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:02:10 -0800

Unless we've been sucked into a time warp and it's 1999 again, in which case VC's will shower them with millions and it's IPO ahoy! Heh.

By: cmicali

cmicali — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:01:59 -0800

Hey the upload progress bar is amazing.. never seen anything like that before, does anyone have any idea how they did that?