See http://www.tagle.it/photouploader

Here’s a post I wrote a while back comparing Facebook photos and flickr:
http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/10/10/the-power-of-the-social-graph/

With regard to monetization, I think they know their audience. We don’t believe in print. :) The last time I printed a picture was years ago. I’ve got pictures online, pictures on my iPhone, pictures for a screensaver. I love pictures.

However, I’m surprised that if they really have 15B photos with 4 copies for each (60B), it is really only 1.5 petabytes of storage….I have heard that companies like Shutterfly (which has much less images < 1/5th), uses up storage of more than 5 to 6 petabytes.

It clearly could be due to the size of the image they store where Facebook might be doing it at a much lower resolution but it also means that they are going to have a real tough time monetizing all those pictures since they might not be print/memory worthy quality. I’m sure traffic through all those pics with advertising is worth something but if people upload 220M images a week…..i see a missed goldmine oppty for monetization.