Monday, December 28, 2009

Sites find new ways to show off your family photos - USATODAY.com

About 85 billion photos will be taken this year, according to research firm IDC. And that overwhelming and seemingly unmanageable collection shows no sign of getting smaller. In the predigital photography era, it was easy. You dropped film off at the drugstore, picked up your 24 prints, took them home and probably pasted one or two to the refrigerator.

Now, $10 digital memory cards can hold thousands of pictures. We capture images with digital cameras, cellphones and other gadgets. The result: We're filling up our hard drives with more pictures in a few months than our grandparents probably took in their entire lifetimes...