[Splines]

> Sharing files between people who do it infrequently is still an unsolved problem. How do I send pictures of my kids to their grandparents for example? It is still easier for me to just email photos to them.

That sounds pretty solved to me.

[mbreese]

Except when they try to send me every single picture that they took over the holidays en masse. I end up with 10 emails, each with 10 pictures, in such low resolution that they are barely useful for anything other than viewing on screen. I want the full resolution photos online so that I could download the 1 or 2 that I really want to have.

[notJim]

Are there really people who are sophisticated enough to resize images but not sophisticated enough to use a zip file?

And free flickr accounts work well enough for people who don't need to print the photos out (which is really the only case you need full res, right?)

[mbreese]

They use the default crapware that came with the camera to send pictures. It auto resizes the photos in the worst possible way. Plus, even zipped, a moderate number of original sizes photos is still larger than a lot of email programs can handle.

I think you're drastically overestimating the sophistication levels of a lot of people when it comes to sharing photos and files. Plus, I doubt my dad has heard of Flickr, let alone know how to spell it.

[notJim]

Your point regarding crapware makes sense, I hadn't thought about that possibility.

And regarding Flickr... You're advocating that you would have your dad use Kicksend, which presumably he won't have heard of either.