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All Four GOP Presidential Candidates Now Oppose SOPA/PIPA
The four leading presidential candidates voiced opposition to the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts in a televised debate Thursday. The most forceful stance may have come from frontrunner Mitt Romney, who called the bill written by one of his key backers a threat to freedom of speech. "The ...
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32 More of the Best (And Worst) Tech Tattoos
At this point there's probably nothing in geekdom, no matter how arcane, that hasn't ended up on someone's skin. "In" someone's skin, to be precise. From ASCII art, to xkcd comics, to video games, to binary, to parts of your childhood you just can't leave behind, there are entire sites ...
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Flickr 2011: The Year in Photos
2011 has been a year of memorable news headlines, from natural disasters to final space shuttle missions to historic deaths. Flickr has pieced together the story of the year in 18 photographs taken around the world by users of the photo-sharing platform. SEE ALSO: How the World Googled in 2011 ...
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One Thing Facebook Can Never Do: Flickr Hits 200m Creative Commons Photos
Yahoo-owned photo sharing service Flickr may have been eclipsed by Facebook as the world's most popular photo sharing site, but there are some things Facebook is probably never going to be able to pull off. For one thing, the creation of a giant public repository of rights-liberal photos available ...
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HOW TO: Reduce the Spam in Your Inbox, Mailbox and Voicemail
Pretty much anyone — man, woman or child — has at some point received an email telling them they weren’t sufficiently endowed. This is spam, and it sucks. Spam is one of the Internet constants that comes with being a digital citizen, but it extends into our analog lives as ...
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Michael Arrington: The Kingmaker Who Would Be King
TechCrunch editor and founder Michael Arrington has left the popular tech blog to become a partner in a new venture capital firm called CrunchFund. As the proprietor of TechCrunch, Arrington has long been the blogger-turned-kingmaker in the startup ecosystem. With CrunchFund, he has now proclaimed himself king and is looking ...
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Flickr Boosts Location Privacy With Geofences
Flickr has introduced a new privacy feature called geofences that allows users to create geographic privacy settings for photos’ location data. With the new feature, Flickr users can draw a circle on a map to designate a geofence and then choose a geographic privacy setting for that area. Users ...
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Flickr Nails Photo Privacy With New Geofence Feature
Flickr will announce a new feature this morning called Geofences, forward- and backward-looking place-specific privacy settings for the location data of the geotagged photos you upload. The feature is live right now and is really well implemented - this is something that every social network ought to enable. Geofencing ...
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Flickr Designer Publicly Criticizes Flickr’s Design
The photo-sharing space continues to heat up, and continues to leave dominant player Flickr in the dust innovation-wise. If one thing’s becoming clear, it’s that it must be really painful to work at Yahoo and have any sort of passion for good product design. The latest example of this pain ...
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A Challenge to Developers: Use Check-In to Save Lives
I am not in the habit of issuing challenges to developers. (This is, in fact, the first time I've done so.) But this is one of those instances in which a day's, or a week's, effort by a good dev or two could save lives. Here's the situation: I have ...
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Over $100,000 Awaits in Developer Contests
Contests continue to be a great way for API providers to encourage use of their platforms. These contests also quickly increase the number of apps built on a platform, which makes a difference when developers are later assessing potential APIs with which to integrate. Contests can also be a great ...
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I Won’t Use Flickr Until They Release My Photo Hostages
Freemium business models are always hard. You have to give users enough for free that they try your service out and get hooked. Then you hit them with fees for upgraded features that make it even better. With a perfect product people don’t mind paying because they feel like it’s ...
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China's Best Known Artist Arrested
Ai Weiwei was arrested yesterday at the Beijing Airport on his way to Hong Kong, the New Yorker reported. Ai, China's best known artist, a global star and designer of the Beijing Olympics stadium, the Bird's Nest, had plans to possibly leave China to live in Germany, where he had ...
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From #Jan25 to Tahrir: What Comes Next for the Internet Revolution?
Guest author Ahmed Zidan lives in Egypt and is the editor of Mideast Youth. The Egyptian protesters have overthrown Mubarak after nearly 30 years. Egypt has come second in row after Tunisia. The two revolutions, the Tunisian and the Egyptian, have succeeded. Egypt has seen its first people's revolution, and ...
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Twitter Now Worth $3.7 Billion, Nabs $200 Million And Two New Board Members
photo © 2010 Keith Ramsey | more info (via: Wylio ) The smoke has cleared and the Twitter bidding wars have finally ended, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports that microblogging service Twitter has added another $200 million to its coffers and a $3.7 billion dollar valuation in a funding round led ...
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Flickr Hits Its 5 Billionth Photo, And Here It Is
According to Media Culpa a blog that apparently obsessively tracks these things, photo-sharing site Flickr has hit the 5 billionth photo milestone today with the above, uploaded  by Flickr user yeoaaron. Media culpa blogger Hans Kullin also points out that Flickr has been growing at about 1 billion photos per year, ...
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Caltech Awarded $122 Million to Create Fuel From Sunlight
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will award up to $122 million to create a Fuels form Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub led by the California Institute of Technology. The Hub’s goal is to develop ways to convert solar energy into chemical fuels and scale the technology for ...
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New wave of web services brings customization to commerce
For a long time, CafePress was the major player in customized product creation on the Internet. Slowly other sites sprang up, like Zazzle, Skreened, StickerGiant, Lulu, and many more. Many of these options are novelty one-offs, though, and you’re paying for the customization, not the craftsmanship, of the product. ...
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Flickr Fixes Facebook Integration With Batch Uploads
Last month, social photo-sharing site Flickr finally added some long-awaited Facebook integration to its service, allowing users to simultaneously post photos on both Flickr and Facebook with one upload. But there was a small problem with the way that the new feature was set up: it basically spammed your Facebook ...
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Flickr Likes Facebook
Social photo-sharing site Flickr has, at long last, added some much-need social networking integration to its online service. You can now simultaneously post your photos to Flickr and Facebook. Only photos you set as "public" will appear on your Facebook Wall, however, as the new sharing options respect your photos' ...
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The Yahoo Brain Bleed Continues. A “Vital” Flickr Architect Departs
Death. Taxes. Talented people leaving Yahoo. The certainties in life these days. Today, yet another key employee announced he is leaving the company. Kellan Elliott-McCrea had actually been with Yahoo for over 4 years, working on Flickr the entire time. His role was officially “Flickr Architect,” but don’t let the ...
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The 30 Best (And Worst) Web Tech Tattoos
Love Linux? Love your Mac? No you don't - not like the hundreds of people out there with Apple and Tux tattoos. But even then, that's not hard core - it's not like Apple is just a Web 2.0 darling du jour. This is Lynn LaVallee's monument to the composition ...
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Social Networking: The Employment Law Revolution That Wasn't
There's been a lot of anxiety provoked (and money made) predicting a "parade of terribles" in the workplace as a result of social networking sites and employee blogs. While there is no doubt that these sites provide additional opportunities for employees to be distracted from getting their work done, ...
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Flickr's Community Manager Says Goodbye
When people talk about managing communities in this new online world, one name is mentioned more often and with more respect than any other: Heather Champ of Flickr. Today Champ announced that after nearly 5 years and more than 4 billion photos uploaded, she is leaving Flickr to start ...
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Google Buys Flickr Photo Editor Picnik
Google has acquired online photo editing site Picnik, according to a blog post made by the photo editing startup today. Google also announced the acquisition on its blog. The entirety of Picnik’s blog post is embedded below.Terms of the deal were not disclosed in either posts. Picnik is one of ...
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Flickr API Tips From an Expert
The Flickr Developer Blog has posted an interview with Simon Willison co-creator of the Django Web framework and one of the developers of the sophisticated Flickr mashup WildlifeNearYou.com. The project took around 14 months to complete, and Simon shares some of the tips and tricks he picked up during that ...
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Flickr API Now Gets You “People in Photos”
Flickr has recently added a number of functions to their API to give developers access to their People in Photos functionality, which allows individuals to be identified in photos uploaded to the service. A good way to get a sense of what you can do is to look ...
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Flickr Outsources Printing To Snapfish
Flickr and Snapfish have struck a deal to make HP’s photo sharing site (and Flickr competitor) the go-to printing partner for the 40 million Flickr users in the US and international markets. As Flickr’s “preferred printing partner,” Snapfish will let Flickr users to transfer, organize, and print photos, scrapbooks, and ...
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Flickr and Getty Images Want Your Photo Submissions
For professional and aspiring photographers alike, selling images to stock photography services like Getty Images can be tremendous way to boost your profile and get your images seen more places in print or online. In March, the Flickr Collection made its debut at Getty Images, with photographs comprised entirely from ...
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Obama Family Portrait Posted to Flickr
Much was made of Barack Obama’s use of social media in his successful 2008 Presidential campaign. Although it’s now been nearly a year since he was elected, the President and his team continue to make use of the tools that helped him land the job. The latest ...
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Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s.
My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don’t take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it’s a billion times better for pictures of your friends because you can ...
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Flickr: 4,000,000,000 Photos And Counting
On Saturday, photo number four billion was uploaded to photo sharing site Flickr. This comes just five and a half months after the 3 billionth and nearly 18 months after photo number two billion. As impressive as four billion photos is, that figure is trounced by Facebook Facebook, which reported ...
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Yahoo Brands Flickr; Users Retaliate
It appears that a few days ago there was a slight change to Flickr’s logo: an addition of a small Yahoo logo to the right side so it reads “Flickr from Yahoo.” In response, many Flickr users have taken to the photo-sharing site’s forums to express their horror at Yahoo’s ...
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It's Official: Flickr Comes to App Store
Well, that certainly took long enough. Despite being one of the most popular photo-sharing web sites on the net today, Flickr hasn't had an official presence in the iTunes App Store until now. The company has just launched their new iPhone application, available here, which lets you both browse and ...
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Top 10 Flickr Stick Figures in Peril
Everybody loves funny signs. There’s just something about acknowledging all the extra effort that went into being intentionally or unintentionally entertaining not just on paper, but in a permanent and publicly-displayed manner. The subset of funny signs involving stylized humans is perhaps supreme among them all. Part cautionary tale, part ...
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Flickr Shuts Down Forum Discussion On Obama-Joker Image
Oh, this just gets better and better. Or perhaps sadder and sadder. In a post earlier this morning we discussed Flickr’s questionable decision to remove a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. In that post we quoted ...
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Censorship or Copyright Infringement? Flickr Takes Down "Obama as Joker" Photo
Los Angeles residents recently began seeing a new sort of Obama poster plastered across their city. Instead of promoting "hope," these posters feature U.S. President Barack Obama wearing the Joker's clown makeup from the Batman movie "The Dark Knight." Even those outside of L.A. have likely seen this image somewhere ...
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iPhone to Become #1 Camera on Flickr
For the longest time, the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi has been the most widely used camera on Flickr. With a 10.1 MP Lens, an image sensor vibration cleaning system, 9-point auto focus, and a mid-range price point, it’s easy to see why the Canon camera has been so ...
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Flickr Search Finally Gets Smart
Flickr Flickr is awesome, but the search stinks. It’s impossible to peruse a large quantity of images without investing way too much time and energy. In fact, most of us power Flickr searchers either use a few of these third-party search tools, or use the site:flickr.com operator with Google Google ...
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Flickr Turns Up The Awesome On Image Search
Searching for photos on the Web takes way too much time. There are simply too many photos to sort through and not enough good ones. Image search is a major priority for all the big search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing), and they’ve all been tweaking their image ...
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Mad Men Is This Year’s Manga. Assault Begins On Twitter Avatars.
Remember last summer when seemingly everyone on Twitter had a manga avatar? Then a few weeks later it was an old-style high school yearbook avatar? (I preferred to combine them, killing two birds with one stone.) Well, get ready for another invasion: Mad Men avatars. The television station AMC has ...
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Flickr And Twitter are Now Officially Sucking Face
Earlier this month, Flickr started flirting with Twitter integration by allowing users to link their Flickr accounts to their Twitter accounts. The experiment was only for email uploads, which simultaneously created a Tweet with a short http://flic.kr link back to the photo on Flickr. Now that integration is ...
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Flickr's Mobile Site Gets Smarter: Shows Photos Taken Nearby
Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing site, just released a nice update of its mobile site. If you have an Android phone or an iPhone (updated to the 3.0 firmware), you can now see images that were taken close to your current location. The new mobile site makes good use of ...
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Flickr Tests Twitter Integration With Email Uploads
Watch out TwitPic, Flickr is finally waking up to the power of letting users share links to their photos over Twitter. Flickr members can now sign up for the Flickr Twitter Beta, which allows them to link their Flickr and Twitter accounts (using Oauth) to their send out a ...
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Think the Recession is Bad? See Great Depression Photos on Flickr
The Library of Congress’ collection on Flickr Flickr reviews is getting a timely new addition today: photos from the Great Depression and World War II. With both the current economic recession and upcoming Memorial Day holiday in the US, the pictures – some of the Library of Congress’ ...
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Why Obama's Flickr Photos Aren't in the Public Domain
The White House is making unprecedented use of consumer web technologies but those technologies aren't always well suited to fit the government's needs. They aren't always well suited to fit anyone's needs - but maybe if Obama leans on them a little bit things will change. Today the White ...
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Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch
People have been whispering about a new web application in development called Hunch. Today, Flickr co-founder and Hunch head honcho Caterina Fake divulged some more details about the new project on her blog. The new project aims to become a site that can help anyone make a decision about anything. ...
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Creative Commons on Flickr: Users Prefer Restrictive Licenses
Flickr now holds the world's largest repository of Creative Commons -licensed images, but according to a new study, most Flickr users opt to license their images under the most restrictive CC license. Also, only a relatively small number of users (24%) allow commercial use of their images, and only about ...
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The Great Gig in the Sky: Using Flickr for Astronomy
Flickr hosts a wide range of beautiful images, but a new project built on top of Flickr's API only focuses on photos of the night sky from amateur astronomers. The Astrometry.net project constantly scans the Astrometry Flickr group for new images to catalog and to add to its open-source sky ...
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Mel Karmazin Gives Away the Farm, Saves Job
Liberty Media threw Sirius XM a lifeline with an 11th hour $530 million loan. If Sirius’s beleaguered balance sheet didn’t tell you everything you’d need to know about how the negotiations went, the terms would. The initial loan of $280 million comes at a steep 15% interest rate, and ...
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15 Great Flickr Extensions for Firefox
No matter how good a service is it can always use a few tweaks, and Flickr is no different. The 15 add-ons we’ve gathered below for Firefox will help with everything from navigation to uploading, accessing Flickr in countries that block the service, and much more. Take a look and ...
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See "What, Where, When" with this Flickr Mashup
Developer Paul Mison has created an interesting Flickr mashup that shows you a map of the locations with the most photos based on a criterion of your choice. By default, that's a tag, but the mashup can also display your photos, the photos of your friends and family, or those ...
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Holiday E-Commerce Sales Fall Flat
Online holiday sales deflated 3 percent this year. ComScore estimates that holiday sales in the U.S. totaled $25.5 billion between November 1 and December 23, the last day orders could be delivered in time for Christmas. The comparable total in 2007 was $26.3 billion. Sales were ...
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Canary In The Coalmine: NYT Sees First Decline In Online Ad Revenues
In what may be an early indicator of broader Web advertising trends, the New York Times announced today that it saw total Internet advertising revenues decline 3.8 percent in November. This compares to a total decrease of 21.2 percent for all advertising at media company, most of which is ...
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Flickr Upgrades its Mobile Interface
Flickr has just rolled out a new mobile site, adding some significant improvements to its interface as well as adding a few new features you can now use on-the-go. Additions include video playback (on devices that support it), as well as the ability to add new contacts, favorite images, ...
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Flickr Updates Its Mobile Site, Adds Video Playback
According to Flickr, its mobile site has seen a more than 50% increase in traffic over the last year. Today, Flickr is rolling out a new version of its mobile site, m.flickr.com, which not only updates the user interface in general, but also adds video playback to its already long ...
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Flickr welcomes Tiny Prints to 'Do More' family
Flickr on Friday announced that it has formed a partnership with Tiny Prints that will see the online stationery site's services become a part of Flickr's "Do More" offering, which currently enables users to add images from their photostream to credit cards, order prints, and create books. According to ...
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Flickr's 3 billionth photo: DSC_2672_1
I've always been annoyed by the significance we humans attach to numeric milestones just because they happen to involve a lot of zeros. But 3 billion--the number of photos now housed at Flickr--is undoubtedly a big number, even if its intrinsic excitement diminishes when, for example, translated into octal ...
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A TechCrunch Party at LeWeb: are you coming?
We are pleased to announce that we will hold a TechCrunch party that will close LeWeb conference next month in Paris. LeWeb is probably one of the most important web event in the industry and certainly the most important in Europe with more than 1500 participants coming from all over ...
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Three Billion Photos At Flickr
A Flickr user named Garrett Ryan Smith uploaded the 3 billionth photo to the site today. The last big milestone was 2 billion photos, a year ago. They’re well behind Facebook, with 10 billion. And they’re falling further behind - a year ago Facebook had just 4.1 billion photos. Still, ...
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Flickr: Public vs. Private Around the World, A Map
Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr users in South America vs. South East Asia? How about Hawaii vs. Alaska? (That one might surprise ...
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Flickr Releases New Homepage to the Public
Flickr has been beta testing their new and improved homepage for a few weeks now, and has today finally released it into the wild for public use. I must admit I was a bit concerned the Timothy Leary style Explore page panda was going to be part of it, but ...
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Have You Seen the Flickr Panda’s Technicolor Yawn?
I’m trying to to come up with a decent way to introduce this - there really isn’t a sane way to approach this because the latest feature from Flickr, while fairly mundane in function, is borderline insane. The service allows you to see new images as they come into the ...
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Flickr to Get More Social With Homepage Redesign
It seems like everybody’s doing some design update these days. First Facebook, then Mashable, and now Flickr is joining the redesign craze. Today, Flickr released a sneak preview of its new design. Its intent is to roll this new layout sitewide in the next few weeks. By ...
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Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming.
Comcast’s decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers - 75.5 million ...
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How to Rock Flickr Like a Champ
Yahoo's wildly popular photo sharing site Flickr is a lot of fun to use, but it really helps to take some time and learn how to use it well. We've recently engaged more seriously with Flickr and wanted to share some quick tips that we think will help you ...
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Flickr Improves and Adds Video to Slide Shows
Flickr slide shows sure do make it easier to view all those images being shared on a given Flickr stream, and the ability to do so has even spurred a healthy-sized third market from developers that offer Flickr slide show tools as well. The dominant photo-sharing service has ...
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Flickr Releases Handy Embeddable Slide Show
Yahoo's photosharing service Flickr is one of the more wonderful things on the web and today the company made a small release that a lot of people should enjoy quite a bit. There's never been a really easy way to embed a nice slide show of your photos off ...
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Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake Joins New Startup, Hunch
Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr along with her husband Stewart Butterfield in 2004, has announced her plans to join a fledgling new startup called Hunch. Flickr is one of the web’s most popular photo-sharing sites, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005 for $35 million. Since then, Flickr ...
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AOL Realizes Bloggers Will Work For Free; Stops Paying Them
Plenty of people blog for free, but when you are blogging for a multi-billion-dollar media conglomerate like AOL (a unit of Time Warner) at least you can expect a steady paycheck. Or not. Recent belt-tightening at AOL is hitting its network of bloggers, many of whom are being ...
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Apple’s App Store: The New Walled Garden
One reason startups and developers are so excited about the iPhone is because they can create richer mobile applications for it and it promises to become a more open platform than the carrier-controlled home decks on most other cell phones. But don’t be so sure that they are not ...
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Getty to License Images from Flickr Users
Yahoo and Getty Images announced a partnership today which will allow Getty to contact Flickr users and offer them to add their images to Getty's collection. Getty would then license these images and offer them to its clients. A notworthy aspect of this program is that the photographer on Flickr ...
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Add Some Spice to Flickr Galleries with FotoViewr
Cover flow is one of the slickest designs ever made by Apple. There's no doubt that it gives a whole new meaning to album art and even makes users more appreciative of album covers. However, what if you could go beyond your album covers and do the same for your ...
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3G iPhones At Any Cost? Cell Tower Deaths on the Rise.
Is AT&T pushing tower-climbing workers too hard as it rolls out its 3G data network in preparation for the launch of the next iPhone? Philip Elmer-Dewitt at Apple 2.0 notes a curious rise in cell-tower deaths over the past five weeks. Since April 12th, six cell-tower technicians have ...
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PR Secrets for Startups
Editor’s Note: At a time when anyone can broadcast their opinions about your startup to the world, public relations requires a new level of engagement on the part of companies and entrepreneurs. But what are the new rules of PR? Guest author Brian Solis, who earlier this ...
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Diller Wins Break-Up Battle In Court
Barry Diller won a court battle today against Liberty Media’s John Malone. Now Diller can finally go ahead with his plan to break up InterActive Corp. into five pieces—HSN, Ticketmaster, Lending Tree, Interval International, and the new IAC (Ask.com, Bloglines, Citysearch, Evite, iWon, Match.com, BustedTees, Vimeo, GarageGames, and CollegeHumor). ...
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Could China Throw a Wrench in Microsoft’s Yahoo Deal?
If Yahoo agrees to Microsoft’s buyout offer, the deal would still have to be pass muster with antitrust regulators here in the U.S, in Europe, and i n China. As John Markoff points out in the NYT, a new Chinese law that will go into effect in August gives ...
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Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix
WiMax is going nowhere fast but that is not stopping a consortium of cable and tech companies from considering a plan to invest $3 billion more into a proposed bailout-through-merger of Sprint Nextel’s WiMax business (known as Xohm ) and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire. The consortium that is reportedly being ...
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Who Is The Openest Of Them All?
If there is one thing I noticed this past year, it is that companies seem to be tripping over themselves more than ever before to claim the mantle of openness. Openness is now a marketing mantra. Facebook kicked things off in May by opening up its social network ...
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Apple Tries To Patent A Way to Avoid Long Lines
Already, people who own an iPhone belong to a certain club. But what if that club came with fringe benefits, like being able to avoid long lines at Starbucks and other stores? A recent patent application by Apple hints at a killer future feature that would let iPhone ...
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ImageKind Scores Partnership With Flickr
When we wrote about Photo printing site ImageKind in February, the company said they were close to announcing a large portal distribution partnership. Earlier this month a reader suggested to us that the partnership might be with Flickr based on some code that appeared on the ImageKind site ...
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What’s The Most Popular Camera on Flickr?
The most used camera among Flickr users is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, according to new statistics tracking camera usage released by the company. Flickr determines the most popular cameras based on data automatically included with most digital cameras today. The most popular “point and shoot” camera is the ...
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1.2 million Flickr Photos Geotagged in 24 Hours
Look for a post on the Flickr Blog later today announcing that 1,234,384 photos were geotagged in the first 24 hours after the new feature launched yesterday (159 of those were mine). Flickr Geotagging, which allows users to drag photos on to a Yahoo map and mark them with a ...
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Flickr Geo Tagging Now Live
Flickr added geo tagging functionality and search to its service earlier today, as previously rumored. Adding location information on Flickr is done through the Organizr, under the Organize tab. In addition to the “Your Sets” and “Your Groups” tabs in that area, they will add a Maps tab where ...
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Why is Flickr afraid of Zooomr?
Flickr says that users own the the images and tags we enter into their system. Apparently that doesn’t mean they have to make it easy for us to take what we own elsewhere. When Kristopher Tate, the founder of the feature-rich startup photosharing site Zooomr (see prior coverage ), ...
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23 is too much like Flickr
23 is a lot like flickr. Almost a clone, even down to the UI and feature comparisons. The service is free, for up to 15 MB of uploading a month. 29 EUR gets you an unlimited bandwidth account. The things I like best about Flickr right now are the “sets” ...
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Flickr Photo Printing
Flickr announced that they are now supporting photo printing. They are giving away 10 free 4×6 prints to each user to start. Only people with U.S. credit card addresses can participate for now. Photos can be delivered, or picked up at any Target store with one hour processing. The costs ...
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