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Flickr and Getty Images have announced an extension of their partnership, which allows Flickr users to be featured in Getty's Flickr Collection and potentially get payed in the process. Until now, Getty has decided which users would get in and, so far, it has amassed over 60,000 photos in the collection. Now, th... |
6 November 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't exactly thriving these days but, just because it doesn't get as much attention as Facebook or Twitter or even Google for that matter, it doesn't mean that it's going anywhere. In fact, Yahoo is still one of the biggest online companies and its services are used by a large percentage of... |
29 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Facebook is at heart a social network but the services and products that have developed around it can be impressive on their own. For example the social network can be considered the world's largest photo hosting site and there are over 20 billion photos on Facebook at the moment. Now Flickr is looking to steal ... |
22 October 2009
09:49 GMT |
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It seems that every autumn, Flickr continues to pass over yet another landmark in image hosting. While in November 2007, it reached the 2 billion photo mark and in the month of November 2008 it reached the next milestone, 3 billion, the company got ahead of itself with one month and reached the 4 billion mark a few d... |
14 October 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Yahoo's campaign to focus its branding and strengthen the relations between its core services may be already backfiring. Popular photo sharing site Flickr has been owned by Yahoo for more than four years now but for the most part it managed to keep as separate as possible. Judging from the reaction most Flickr u... |
25 September 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Washington have recently developed a new series of algorithms that allows them to digitize the entire city of Rome in less than a day. Using a collection of hundreds of thousands of tourist photos, taken within the limits of the city, the new software can easily stitch them together, ... |
16 September 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Flickr has unveiled a new feature that should have been a long time going. Called Flicker Galleries, the feature allows users to create a group of up to 18 public photos or videos from any other one on the site. This is a great way of showing off the works one particularly likes, grouped around a common theme, and so... |
15 September 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Originally created by former game designers Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr is the world’s most popular online photo-sharing network. The service is now available to any owner of an iPhone or iPod touch through a free application that has just been granted a place in the App Store’s photogra... |
8 September 2009
09:15 GMT |
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In the light of the whole Obama – Joker fiasco, Flickr has come out as the bad guy and is now trying to at least limit the damages by changing its policy when handling copyright takedown claims. A photoshopped image of the US President Barack Obama, which depicted him as the Dark Knight's version of the po... |
3 September 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Photographer Thomas Hawk and PDN Pulse reveal that Flickr might have deleted the photo due to a loophole in its copyright policy, but Mr. Hawk makes a strong case when accusing Flickr of being politically incorrect when it comes to favoring the recent United States president.The whole affair started when a Chicago na... |
28 August 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Flickr is one of the best and biggest photo hosting and sharing sites out there but, while its die-hard users love it, there are some areas where it could do better, most notably its search, which leaves much to be desired. Thankfully the developers have heard the complaints and Flickr now sports a brand-new and much... |
5 August 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Photos are a big part of the Facebook experience and the photo sharing service is one of the most used features on the site. There are already a number of ways to upload those photos to the site either directly or from mobile devices or remote locations using MMS or Facebook apps for Blackberry, iPhone or other devic... |
23 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Flickr has officially launched a complete Twitter integration allowing users to easily share their Flickr photos through the micro-blogging service. The feature was actually implemented earlier in the month as a beta but now the photo sharing site is ready to make it available to the general public. “We’... |
1 July 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Flickr is introducing a new sharing option called Flickr Twitter Beta, which will allow users to automatically notify their friends via Twitter every time they upload a photo. This only works for email uploads for now but it may be because Flickr is experimenting with the feature before introducing it on a larger sca... |
13 June 2009
06:40 GMT |
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China is well known for its online censorship and for taking down even major sites. But two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Great Firewall of China has taken its efforts to a new level – Twitter, Flickr and a number of Microsoft services have been blocked.First to go was t... |
2 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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A reader over at AppleInsider going by the screen name of inewton1974 has pointed the site to an annotated Flickr album containing roughly four dozen Snow Leopard screenshots published earlier last week. The pictures show numerous tweaks in Snow Leopard's Finder, the unique features of QuickTime X and more. The... |
1 June 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Users on popular photo-sharing website Flickr have been found to actually be creating maps of their surrounding areas, experts have recently announced. Making use of the site's “geo-tagging” service, which allows uploaders to specify the location where their picture has been taken, a research team ha... |
27 April 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Getty Images has expanded its content with the addition of the Flickr Collection, available today March 11, 2009. Yahoo applauded the initiative of delivering creative imagery from Flickr members to gettyimages.com and allowing customers to access photographs via commercial licenses. All the digital images that manag... |
11 March 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Since Monday, the popular photo-sharing website Flickr has started allowing users of its free services the possibility to upload small videos to the site's servers, in what appears to be a bid to challenge YouTube's and Google's dominance of this market. Behind the popular portal is Yahoo!, which seems... |
3 March 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Until now, the only way photographers who posted their pictures on Flickr could get paid was by means of a private negotiation between them and those who wanted to use their ''all rights reserved'' work. Things are about to change. Flickr has just signed an exclusive partnership with Getty Images,... |
9 July 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Photoshop Express, the web-based version of the famous graphics editor, was scheduled to receive a new update these days but, due to some unexpected glitches, Adobe delayed the release, Pocket-Lint informs today. The new pack of updates brings multiple features to the Flash-based Photoshop, but one of the most expect... |
13 May 2008
10:24 GMT |
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Yahoo's photo sharing service Flickr has just rolled out a brand new feature, which makes sharing photos, videos, groups and sets a piece of cake. In fact, the improvement is actually a button, namely the "Share this" button, which lets registered users share the content mentioned above with a single click. Obvi... |
23 April 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Facebook has millions of users, the company's representatives even estimating that approximately 250,000 new accounts are created every day. Because of that, the website is somehow forced to improve its functions periodically, in order to satisfy the majority of members and bring them the features they need. Tha... |
16 April 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Following the recent release of Flickr Video, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo, also the owner of the photo-sharing service, has updated its internal instant messaging client to support the clips uploaded on Flickr. This means that users of Yahoo Messenger 9 can share their Flickr video straight into the message win... |
16 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo made what seems to be Flickr's first step into the video sharing market: the implementation of video support which allows users to upload their own clips on the famous photo sharing website. That's right, Flickr was actually a photo sharing webpage and the v... |
11 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Flickr, the popular photo sharing service, is now stepping into the video sharing market with video support, a special function supposed to let people insert their own into Flickr photostreams. Although it may sound like a good competition for other such sharing services on the web, it's not because the idea of ... |
9 April 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Global Delight Technologies has just released the latest version of Web2 Delight for Mac, a search-and-download tool enabling Mac owners to get anything their hearts desire from online video or photo platforms such as YouTube and flickr. Web2 Delight supports Apple's iPod, iPhone and AppleTV. It automatically co... |
2 April 2008
04:19 GMT |
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What is Yahoo! thinking? One of the products it has worked best on was launched without any fanfare and mediums were kept mostly in the dark surrounding the event. Yang needed the attention to show the shareholders that he was head of a strong and organized company, not one that couldn't dwell on its best featur... |
15 February 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s photo sharing service has had this one in the brewing for a while now and the magnitude of the whole thing is yet to be seen. With the launch of the two sets of photos, we've been given a small taste of what is yet to come in "The Commons" pilot project, which brings together Flickr and the Library... |
17 January 2008
19:26 GMT |
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If you're looking for a "no fuss" kind of digital photo frame, this one might actually be a decent choice. RealEase has just introduced the world's first touch-screen WiFi-integrated digital picture frame. The Shogo touch screen digital frame uses an integrated battery, which translates into no more wires f... |
11 January 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Finally, an official announcement from Nokia states that the Finnish handset manufacturer is optimizing the Nokia N95 8GB for networks using 850/1900 MHz HSDPA in the Americas. Combining speed, technology and content, the new Nokia N95 8GB bridges the gap between traditional fixed entertainment centers and portable w... |
7 January 2008
08:01 GMT |
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*I would like you to take into consideration that this is the 21st century and that photo editing tools have been around for quite a while now* The previously announced partnership between Picnik and Flickr has finally paid off today, with the launch of the editing program that is supposed to make Flickr more user f... |
5 December 2007
07:08 GMT |
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It's not easy to compete with Google, but Yahoo! seems to be up for the job or at least right now it is. The new releases seem to top each other's and right now it's the Sunnyvale, California based company's time to shine.Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing site, has released today two new ... |
19 November 2007
05:08 GMT |
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The one who says Flickr is not the best photo-sharing service on the web might be wrong. Although I'm not a huge fan of the product, I must admit that Flickr has always been one of the top technologies on the web because it is pretty similar to YouTube with only one difference: it is focused on photos and not on... |
22 October 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated Windows Live Photo Gallery, the upgrade to the default Windows Photo gallery that ships by default integrated into Windows Vista. While Windows Live Photo Gallery is still in Beta at this stage the product has evolved with the addition of some new features and functionality. Following the consis... |
19 October 2007
09:45 GMT |
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Today, September 19, is the International Talk Like a Pirate day. I had no idea about this 'special day', until someone called me. I was working on a piece of news when my mobile rang and a friend asked me what I knew about the Flickr hack and what has happened to them. My instant reaction was: "What?! Flic... |
19 September 2007
08:57 GMT |
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That's right, there is the possibility that Windows Live Photo Gallery is connected with Flickr. Last week, Microsoft introduced an upgrade to Windows Photo Gallery, the default viewing and editing application built into the operating system. The upgrade was delivered as an integer part of the new phase in the e... |
13 September 2007
09:02 GMT |
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Some time ago, Yahoo made what it seems to be an obvious move: it announced that it closes Yahoo Photos in order to remain focused on Flickr, a recently acquired photo sharing service that has almost the same features as this product. Because of that, all the users of Yahoo Photos must migrate to another photo sharin... |
17 August 2007
08:28 GMT |
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Every day, one new Internet company launches another video service that is meant to beat YouTube. Bull**it! But I'm starting to get used to it. A lot of YouTube-like products that could beat Google and steal most of its users were already released and none of them managed to compete with the famous video platfor... |
10 August 2007
06:38 GMT |
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The famous phone producer Nokia said that it will acquire Twango, a famous photo-sharing social website founded in 2004. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but this is an interesting move than brings new rivals for giant companies such as Google and Yahoo that are already owning similar solutions with... |
24 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The Yahoo photo sharing service Flickr grew up a lot and is now the second most popular product in its category with approximately 38 percent market share in the latest four weeks. According to a recent statistic published by Hitwise, Photobucket is the leader in the United States with 43.5 percent market share. The ... |
11 July 2007
06:02 GMT |
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Photobucket, an online photo sharing service, will be acquired soon by the Fox Interactive Media, a large company that owns several famous names such as MySpace. The deal was rumored a long time ago but the two firms needed the approval of the Federal Trade Commission in order to finalize the transaction. According t... |
6 July 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Last week, an interesting rumor spread on the Internet sustaining that Yahoo's Flickr was banned by the Chinese authorities but no reason for that was offered. At that time, the Sunnyvale company's officials refused to offer more details about the unavailability of the service, saying only that it wasn'... |
14 June 2007
11:06 GMT |
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The transition from the old-fashioned Yahoo Photos to the new Flickr starts today, Yahoo's employees struggling to make the migration with minimum action from the registered members. Some time ago, Yahoo announced the closure of Photos, all the users being forced to upload their photos on Flickr, the other photo... |
14 June 2007
05:47 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo has gotten into some new troubles in China after it was reported that its online photo sharing service Flickr in unavailable for most of the local users. There is no official statement to indicate that Yahoo is facing a new ban in the country but, after the company's representative de... |
11 June 2007
05:41 GMT |
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Have you ever asked yourself whether Yahoo were able to work with Google and improve one of the products developed by the two companies? Well, maybe this is not possible; but what if you're able to implement one of the giant portal's solutions into Google's products? It might result something incredibl... |
16 May 2007
13:56 GMT |
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Yahoo updated its search engine with a new element, adding interoperability with Flickr, the online photo sharing service owned by the company. You're now able to view photo thumbnails of the most famous landmarks straight into the SERP, just like you'd do in any other shortcut provided by Yahoo. The pictur... |
11 May 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Yahoo prepares to announce the closure of Yahoo Photos, the service that allowed users to upload and share their pictures with other Internet users. The service will be shut down in the upcoming months because the company wants to move all the clients to the recently acquired platform, Flick. According to TechCrunch,... |
4 May 2007
04:54 GMT |
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A while ago nobody thought that the geographical coordinates of a place you're taking pictures of could have any utility. And since Flickr had a brainstorm and associated maps with photos, everybody started talking about geo-tagging or GPS photo-tagging. Here it goes (and I'm referring to the Geo-photo-tag... |
25 April 2007
13:21 GMT |
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As you probably know, Yahoo's Flickr is one of the most known online photo sharing services, allowing users to publish, share and comment pictures with other members of the community. Currently, it is extremely popular because it contains several image manipulation utilities such as photo editors and organizing ... |
16 March 2007
11:38 GMT |
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