As you might expect from its name, Photobucket is a place to keep photographs, videos and other images. But unlike a bucket, Photobucket is very good at storing and finding images and videos.

Photobucket is a very popular web sites, consistently rating in the top 50 most visited sites. There are over 40 million register users and according to the image counter on the bottom of the front page of the site, there are over 6 billion images on Photobucket. Of course not all of these are public images. You can upload images to Photobucket and keep them just for you and your friends.

WHO WOULD USE IT?

This is a great site for all those amateur photographers among us who like to share their snaps. This is also the place where aspiring photo artists can strut their stuff showing the world what they can do. And even if you are the sort of photographer who does a lot of close up images of your thumb, you will enjoy browsing some of the amazing images on this site.

WALK THROUGH

Photobucket is available as a mobile web site. You can view images without logging in but to upload your own images and share them with friends you will need to register as a Photobucket user. You can do this on mobile site or through the web. In either case it is easy. You need to provide an email address where Photobucket will send a conformation email, your gender, date of birth and your country. The mobile version of Photobucket is available at http://m.photobucket.com or http://mobile.photobucket.com.

COSTS

You can have a standard Photobucket account for free. This gives you 1Gb of storage on Photobucket and up to 25Gb of downloads of your images for other people. If this is not enough, you can upgrade to a Photobucket Mobile Pro account which not only gives you a lot more storage but also gets rid of the ads that pop up all over the place.