techNOcool

Why you ask? Well, one question she routinely raises with all of these free new online apps -

"What happens when these services try to make a profit? What happens to your stuff? "

Case in point this morning I uploaded three pictures of my daughter to my flickr account and got a message saying that I reached the 200 photo limit of my free account. And that to keep me within my 200 photo limit, they will hide my oldest pictures. They also reassured me that my pictures are safe as they are only hidden not deleted and that I can show them again if I upgrade to a pro account.

I am not sure that this is such a big deal to me as I store my pictures on my hard drive and back them up to a CD for 'safe keeping' but I can only imagine the boat that others are in who used flickr as their sole storage place. The cost of the pro account is only $25 per year and I was already considering forking out the dough prior to this but again that is not the point.

Then this afternoon I came across EdVentures in Technology � New and Improved Google Apps Not to be out done by Yahoo, Google obviously feels that its online suite is developed enough to charge users for usage.