Pictures and Video Social Media

Photo Sharing Reviewed...

Flickr (owned by Yahoo!)
 innovative, tons of cool features, drag and drop, sharing, RSS, badges, clustering
 difficult to use for non tech savvy
 
Photobucket
 simple, limited functionality, badges
 perhaps too simple, annoying ads, no sharing and social web features
 
Kodakgallery
 professional interface, targeting main stream
 no sharing and social web features
 
MyPhotoAlbum
 simple, has all the basic functions, each album has unique URL
 no sharing and social web features
 
Pbase (not in the same space)
 stunning professional photography, gallery-based implementation, simple
 no sharing and social web features
 
Picasa (not in the same space yet - owned by Google)
 hard to say because it is not apples to apples, but editing photos is nice
 basically not (yet) in the same space, not really web-based
 
Picturetrail
 music associated with albums, lots of badge options
 unbearably annoying ads during sign up, clubs instead of groups, does not seem intuitive
 
Shutterfly
 professional interface, targeting mainstream
 no sharing and social web features
 
Slide (not in the same space)
 runs on top of Flickr, Photobucket, etc. plugs into MySpace, blogs, etc. Fills nice niche within the space.
 focused on making slideshows (it's a limitation, if you want to consider this service as a contender).
 
Smugmug
 professional interface, a lot of album options, well thought through
 not free
 
Snapfish
 professional interface, targeting mainstream
 no sharing and social web features
 
Webshots
 has lots of social web photo features
 ads, somewhat clunky, no tags (at least we could not find them)
 
Zooomr
 conceptually interesting, some innovative UI, uses OpenID for login.
 confirmation image gives you instant headache; no geography-only tag cloud; the maps are cool, but not useful
 
Zoto
 very well designed, has the most social web features
 somewhat slow, lacks printing ability