Putfile
Encyclopedia
Putfile was a free file-hosting website started in January 2004 that provided video and photo hosting services. It was originally owned by Putfile Limited in Godalming
, Surrey
, Great Britain
, and on February 6, 2007, it was purchased by ZVUE Corporation, an internet media company.
image size limit. File size maximums for videos and Flash
files were repeatedly increased; as of July 2007, the maximum file size was 200MB.
Media could be rated on a scale from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). Statistics were kept on the number of views a file had and its average rating. The site provided links to the highest rated and most viewed media.
Registration was free. As of December 2005, text ads were being sold on Putfile.
Uploaded video, flash, and audio files were available at the URL
http://media.putfile.com/title where title was the media's title. Audio files were played through Windows Media Player
, while mov and wmv file types were then converted to the flv format and were played in putfile's flash player created by Anssi, the developer of FlowPlayer http://www.putfile.com/thankyou.php/.
Putfile prohibited the uploading of pornographic or offensive material http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,1871390,00.asp.
As of 14 October 2008 the site stopped allowing new uploads or new users, due to poor management by ZVUE corporation (which also now owns eBaumsworld).
On April 23, 2009, Putfile went offline.
Godalming
Godalming is a town and civil parish in the Waverley district of the county of Surrey, England, south of Guildford. It is built on the banks of the River Wey and is a prosperous part of the London commuter belt. Godalming shares a three-way twinning arrangement with the towns of Joigny in France...
, Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
, Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
, and on February 6, 2007, it was purchased by ZVUE Corporation, an internet media company.
Uploading
Putfile accepted files in most common video, music, audio, and image formats. There was a 5 MBMegabyte
The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context: bytes generally for computer memory; and one million bytes generally for computer storage. The IEEE Standards Board has decided that "Mega will mean 1 000...
image size limit. File size maximums for videos and Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
files were repeatedly increased; as of July 2007, the maximum file size was 200MB.
Media could be rated on a scale from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). Statistics were kept on the number of views a file had and its average rating. The site provided links to the highest rated and most viewed media.
Registration was free. As of December 2005, text ads were being sold on Putfile.
Viewing media
The photo upload tool allowed users to upload multiple photos at once with an easy to use thumbnail preview mode. Once photos for upload were selected they were automatically resized and then uploaded to albums of the user's choosing. Motion in GIF format images tended to be dysfunctional.Uploaded video, flash, and audio files were available at the URL
Uniform Resource Locator
In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource....
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
, while mov and wmv file types were then converted to the flv format and were played in putfile's flash player created by Anssi, the developer of FlowPlayer http://www.putfile.com/thankyou.php/.
Putfile prohibited the uploading of pornographic or offensive material http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,1871390,00.asp.
As of 14 October 2008 the site stopped allowing new uploads or new users, due to poor management by ZVUE corporation (which also now owns eBaumsworld).
On April 23, 2009, Putfile went offline.