YouREP, You Represent, is a photo sharing site which appears to have launched as a competitor for products like Flickr. They’ve attempted to implement a Web 2.0 design, but it’s gone horribly wrong. Nonetheless, YouRep provides a fairly large amount of storage space (2GB) and has some features Flickr lacks, such as revenue sharing.

YouRep’s design looks fairly Web 2.0, however many of its characteristics are Web 1.0. For example, look at the site’s logo:

It has a nice Web 2.0y reflection howeverthe colours used aren’t very web two point oh. The colours seem to darker than the vast majority of Web 2.0 colour schemes.

Moving onto the site itself, over its design.

The site allows you to license photographs under the common, no pun intended, Creative Commons licenses (not obscure ones like Founders’ Copyright). This feature is also available in Flickr (and to a much better degree in Wikimedia Commons).

Imaging uploads is fairly simple, and is done through Ajax. The process allows you to give an image a name, tags and to specify a copyright. You can also put them in folders (which is a much more conventional approach, over Flickr’s sets). You can also add a description, but this must be done post-upload. You can also send it to groups, geotag and add notes. Sounds familiar?

The bottom-line is that YouREP is a Flickr clone with a few added features, such as revenue sharing, but with a design which is mediocre at best.

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