What is Fotki? Fotki Review

Fotki is a social networking site and web service suite that provides digital photo sharing, video sharing and media information. It is one of the largest social networking sites in the world. The site supports Web 2.0 features such as: using Ajax, tags, RSS subscriptions, social bookmarks, GPS location information and EXIF ​​information display.

Founding

Fotki was founded in 1998 by Dmitry Don (current president) and Katrin LilleOKS (his wife) as a way to store and share their digital photos with friends and family around the world.

About Fotki

Fotki is a photo-sharing software licensed by many global companies: Telecom Italia, Alice.it, Sears, Mark Travel, Vegas.com, FunJet.com, etc. As of January 2011, Fotki claims to have 1.6 million registered members from 241 countries and one billion digital images.

Serve

Fotki offers unlimited storage space to registered users, with most of its free registered users coming from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. It also offers blogging services similar to LiveJournal or Blogger, online printing and sales, customization services, as well as email and co-branding services.

Fotki provides unlimited online photo album space capacity, supports jpg, jpeg, png, psd, gif, bmp, tif, tiff image formats, and supports streaming media services in addition to uploading images. Users can upload images using Java, ActiveX controls, software clients, web pages, URL addresses, FTP, mobile phones, E-mails, and other methods. There are various ways to upload images, and the speed is very good. You can also create multiple album names, and it supports simplified Chinese. Images support external links, and there is no limit on the external link traffic. Disadvantages: The size limit for a single image upload is not specifically given.

Covering Language

English, French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Chinese, German, Italian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Malay, Hebrew, Spanish and Japanese.

Free Account

Fotki free account members have a 3,000 MB storage limit and a 50 MB email limit, and can request an additional 200 MB of storage every 30 days.

Starting October 1, 2015, free members must upgrade to paid services. If you do not upgrade by October 1, 2015, all free accounts will be deleted.

Development History

-In 1998, Fotki was founded.

-In 2001, the commercial version of Fotki website was launched.

-In 2003, Fotki was registered as a trademark in the United States.

- In June 2007, Fotki was named one of the best Web 2.0 applications by CNET.

-As of January 2011, Fotki claims to have 1.6 million registered members from 241 countries and one billion digital images.

- In June 2012, Fotki sent a message to all its users informing them of its financial situation and the resulting need for additional support for the storage of original full-size images. Access to original images was suspended pending further arrangements.

- In August 2015, Fotki stated that they would no longer support free memberships because they were removing ads.