Sometimes Silent

Read this over at Mashable: http://mashable.com/2007/02/28/zoto/

Here’s an excerpt:

If you have a free account on Zoto AFTER 10am CST on Wednesday, your account information will be imported into Zoto 3.0, and flagged as a non-paid account. When we launch 3.0 sometime on Thursday, your account will be available for limited login, but you will be required to upgrade to a paid account to have immediate access to your photos….For those of you NOT wishing to upgrade to a paid account, your images from your 2.0 account will be available for download (or deletion at your discretion) after the 12th of March on a landing page when you login to 3.0. Those archives will contain ALL photos and meta data added to your account while it was on 2.0. Once you start the download, you will be given 24 hours to complete any other archive downloads you need. After that, your account and archive will be deleted from the Zoto system.

I signed up early with Zoto and have pictures hosted there, one of my photos was even featured by them. However, this is the first I’ve heard of the free account option going away. Unfortunately the Wednesday mentioned, is the one that has already passed and I can no longer get to my photos there. It’s too bad, I did like their options for blog posting, but not enough to pay for the feature. I have copies of the photos I had uploaded there so you’ll see more pics from my free Picasa / Google hosted site now.

Update on the Zoto situation from their devblog: http://www.zoto.com/dev-blog/?p=103