IMHO the most important feature any service that I trust my most previous assets, my photos with, is the ease of which I can take my photos off.<p>I currently have around 60 gigs of photos that I am in desperate need for an easy solution for sharing and storage for. Even keeping it in the iPhoto folder format right now makes me dizzy for the future, but I havent found one service yet that meet me criteria. Most are great for sharing, but most of them depend on a certain lock-in effect. There is, as far as I can see, no easy way to move your photos very quickly from one host to another.<p>With snapjoy, it seems you are only able to download the images one by one.
I'm in the same boat as nchuhoai, but I now have over 500GB of photos and videos to worry about (get a DSLR and some photogenic kids, and you'll see how quickly the GBs add up, even after heavy editing/deletion).<p>With DSLRs becoming more popular, and HD-quality video becoming more mainstream, I suspect that storing, sharing, and backing up these memories will become a much bigger concern for many people. Snapjoy's pricing page currently maxes out at 155GB @ $15/month, so that's clearly not going to cut it.<p>I use Picasa to manage all the photos/videos, and used to actually pay Google $100/year for 400GB of storage, until they increased it to $19.99/mo (2.4x more) and started to creepily over-share private photos on Google+. I also used to pay Mozy to back everything up, until they removed their unlimited plan and asked me to pay over $70/month for the data I already had there. If I choose to go with iCloud keep all my HD originals, I'll be paying at least $1200 per year.<p>I still haven't been able to find just one service to fit my needs. I've been using Facebook to share low-res photos, KickSend to send hi-res originals to specific people, and CrashPlan to back everything up both offline (to an ioSafe drive) and to their cloud (which still has an unlimited option).<p>Really hoping someone really cracks this nut and offers a compelling service where "overage" charges are in the TB range. Though I would bet that Apple, Microsoft, etc are hoping that folks get used to these storage prices to the point where people are as used to paying them as their cable TV bill.
I've followed snapjoy since they first came out, one of my favorite YC companies. They'd been radio silent for quite some time and I was afraid they'd faded away, so this is great news.<p>Now if they can get facial recognition and geotagging options working, they will replace iPhoto for me.