A few days ago we told you about the banning of pictures of babies in nappies from Photobucket. Photobucket has now backed down, restoring the baby photos and apologising for overreacting. It looks like its no-nudity policy is not quite as strict as first thought.
Of course, the main reason we posted this update is so we could run the baby photo to the left again. It’s just too cute not to. [CNET]
Anne Geddes would be appalled. Photobucket has banned images of babies in nappies from its site, saying that they violate its no-nudity policy. It says the policy applies to people of any age.
This was discovered after a US diaper company running a baby photo competition using Photobucket had all of its entries deleted by the image sharing service. CNET has the full scoop, and while this policy on the surface might seem ridiculous, you can kind of see where it’s coming from. At what age, for example, should they set the nudity cutoff? I’m sure Photobucket doesn’t want to be tackling this kind of issue, so has sensibly decided that there will be zero-tolerance. [CNET]
TiVo today announced you can now access accounts with Photobucket and Google’s Picasa using any broadband-connected TiVo, and as a bonus, if you have a TiVo HD or Series3, you can see the pics in HD resolution. This isn’t necessarily a revolution–you’ve been able to pull photos locally from your computer for years now, and Photobucket and Picasa aren’t exactly the market leaders in this field. While Flickr and Kodak would probably have been our choices, just for the broadest reach, it still might be a nice way to browse not only your photos, but photos of complete strangers, using public tag searches like “puppies,” “Alex Rodriguez” or “rough sex.” [TiVo] More »
