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Attn Amateur Photogs: Getty/Flickr Deal
According to Photojojo, Getty Images and Flickr are doing a deal in which Getty editors will scour Flickr for images with "Getty potential" and offers their photographers residuals.
*not a real quote, just my imagining of the conversations of Getty editors According to Photojojo, Getty Images and Flickr are doing a deal in which Getty editors will scour Flickr for images with "Getty poten... more -
Mosaic Touring Bike
Sweet looking ride
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what nice craft!
‹found via BoingBoing›
----- flickr user nathan2480 -----
Fully functional! I've used it for everything from errands to a three week tour from Vermont to Baltimore.
Specs:
-Bianchi Brava
-Original weight: 24 pounds
-With mosaic: 33 pounds
-Took two months to complete
-Mosaic is covered with a coat of West System's 105/206 epoxy to give structural integrity and protect from rain. Finished with a urethane varnish to protect from UV damage.
Yes, this thing is heavy but it can still climb hills and I've hit 40 MPH down hill. Love it, love it, love it! Sweet looking ride - what nice craft! ‹found via BoingBoing› ----- flickr user nathan2480 ----- ... more -
Before they were coded, they were sketched - Twitter, Flickr, and Vimeo
Interesting look behind the conceptualization of several popular websites. Very cool.
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California fires - jesus
From gino's flickr stream. Wow, that's a lot of fires.
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Sorry I Missed Your Party - Internet voyeurism at its lowest
It's Friday, and before you head out for a weekend of good times, consider the existence of sorryimissedyourparty.com, a blog devoted to pictures of other people's parties found on photo-sharing site Flickr.
In a world where anything you do is just a point-shoot-and-click away from the Internet - this site reminds us that we can all be stars, or possibly have our lives ruined, in the blink of a lens.
Oh, and be forewarned... much of the linkage is seriously NSFW. It's Friday, and before you head out for a weekend of good times, consider the existence of sorryimissedyourparty.com, a blog devoted ... more -
Flickr thievery?
A spate of copyright theft on photosharing website Flickr brings up some interesting questions about the way the web is headed...
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Two founders of Flickr to leave Yahoo
Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have joined an exodus of senior Yahoo managers, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Fake, who led the effort to create Brickhouse, Yahoo's San Francisco-based start-up incubator, will not be returning from maternity leave. Butterfield, her husband, who served as general manager of Flickr, will depart July 12.
The couple, who founded the popular photo-sharing site together and sold it to Yahoo in March 2005 for a reported $30 million, are the latest in a string of high-profile resignations that have coincided with the collapse of Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo.
Among the executives who have left or will leave soon are Jeff Weiner, the executive vice president of Yahoo's network division, and Usama Fayyad, the chief data officer and executive vice president of research and strategic data solutions.
"These are people that are making personal decisions," said spokeswoman Terrell Karlsten. "They really are individual departures where people are moving on to new endeavors."
Still, the departures are a blow to Yahoo, which has been losing talented employees from all ranks of the company for more than two years. The Flickr founders, in particular, were seen as a source of innovative energy.
Soon after Fake arrived in Sunnyvale, Weiner asked her to figure out a way to "build the next Flickr at Yahoo." In a blog post, Fake recalled her response: "It ain't ever going to happen." Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have joined an exodus of senior Yahoo managers, the company confirmed Tuesday. ... more -
Flickr perde due importanti elementi
Il progetto Flickr è uno dei fiori all’occhiello di Yahoo, ma in queste e nelle prossime settimane perderà 2 elementi importanti. Caterina Fake e Stewart Butterfield, co-fondatori di Flickr (nonché marito e moglie), saranno presto un lontano ricordo: già lo scorso venerdì Fake ha abbandonato Yahoo, mentre il suo compagno Butterfield lascerà il prossimo 12 luglio.
Ad occupare la posizione di quest’ultimo, ovvero di general manager di Flickr, arriverà Kakul Srivastava (attualmente director of product management).
L’abbandono dei cofondatori di Flickr va inserito in un più ampio filone di dimissioni che sembra toccare Yahoo in questi ultimo periodo: da annoverare Jeff Weiner, Usama Fayyad, Jeremy Zawodny tra i più recenti; ma già da febbraio scorso alcune dimissioni hanno cominciato a “piovere”.
Il progetto Flickr è uno dei fiori all’occhiello di Yahoo, ma in queste e nelle prossime settimane perderà 2 elementi importanti. Cate... more -
Is social media behind Barack Obama’s success?
Obama has run a remarkable campaign, and his campaign’s has made innovative use of social media, embracing podcasting, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube & more.
Are you connected to Obama through social media? Has made you more favoritable toward his candidacy? Do you feel like you have a more personal connection to Obama as a result of his new media efforts? Obama has run a remarkable campaign, and his campaign’s has made innovative use of social media, embracing podcasting, Twitter, Flickr... more -
Life, death and Twitter on the African Savannah
For veteran wildlife ranger Joseph Kimojino, the traditional tools of his trade -- binoculars, off-road jeep and a rifle -- have been supplemented by Twitter, Flickr and a blog.
A ranger in Kenya's acclaimed Mara Triangle wildlife park, Kimojino is a member of the Masai tribe. He first learned how to click a computer mouse in November. Now he blogs about the Mara Triangle and posts wild animal photos on Flickr nearly every day.
Kimojino's online outreach is an effort to raise awareness and money for the park, and it's urgent: Without the funds he raises online, his employer, the Mara Conservancy, would go broke. Admission fees from park visitors are the conservancy's primary source of revenue, but tourism dropped to almost zero during Kenya's post-election violence, and hasn't snapped back.
But the park's online efforts are working. Despite relatively modest traffic, the blog raised $40,000 from donations in March. Kimojino's Facebook page drew about $2,000; and a handful of safari companies bought advertising on the blog in exchange for sponsoring rangers.
"All the rest has been from single donations from individuals around the world, from donations as small as $5 to our biggest, which was $5,000," says William Deed, the experienced blogger behind the park's online outreach effort.
Kenya's wildlife is seriously threatened by poaching, except in parks like the Mara Triangle, which employs rangers to protect animals. The rangers' salaries are paid from park fees, but tourism has dropped 90 percent. To keep the conservancy running, the park's online outreach needs to raise $50,000 a month until the tourists return -- a job that's fallen into Deed's lap.
Two years ago, Deed, 28, was an office temp in Rotherham, England, "a really shitty, shitty town near Sheffield," he says. Deed was so bored with his lot, he started a blog about the banalities of waiting in line.
The blog became popular, and within months, Deed was recruited by the conservationist blog network WildlifeDirect, brainchild of famed Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey and his son-in-law, Emmanuel De Merode.
Deed's assignment: Help wildlife rangers set up blogs about mountain gorillas and other animals in the Congolese guerrilla stronghold of North Kivu.
Eastern Congo was much less boring than Rotherham, Deed found. After surviving more than a dozen evacuations and being ultimately driven out of the park by Laurent Nkunda's rebels, Deed found a more peaceful but no less adventurous assignment with the Mara Conservancy. For veteran wildlife ranger Joseph Kimojino, the traditional tools of his trade -- binoculars, off-road jeep and a rifle -- have been ... more -
IPhone 2.0 To incorporate photo geotagging
You can add one more geotagging method to our How to Geotag Your Photos post last week. Soon the iPhone will do it for you.
In the latest build of the iPhone 2.0 software, Apple has added a system wide "Location Service", and you can choose whether you want to let the camera application to add positional data to your photos.
The ambiguous wording – Location Services – doesn't reveal whether this will be done by GPS or by the iPhone's current triangulation methods. What it does mean, though, is that geotagging is about to break big. The iPhone is already the most popular camera phone on Flickr. And when the 2.0 software goes live, it could also give us an interesting look at just where all those unlocked, black market iPhones have gone. We're guessing China. You can add one more geotagging method to our How to Geotag Your Photos post last week. Soon the iPhone will do it for you. ... more -
Tossing cameras = amazing photography
Instructions: take camera, put it on a long exposure, hurl it into the air, admire amazing results.
Footnote: terrible catcher? Borrow somebody else's camera...
Instructions: take camera, put it on a long exposure, hurl it into the air, admire amazing results. ... more -
GTA IV's Liberty City vs New York
Much praise has been given to Grand Theft Auto IV's impressively accurate representation of New York City but how are non-residents of the Big Apple to determine just how deserved this acclaim is?
By browsing through the Flickr photoset in which various New York locations and iconic buildings are compared to their Liberty City digital counterpart, that's how.
Prepare to be very impressed folks... Much praise has been given to Grand Theft Auto IV's impressively accurate representation of New York City but how are non-residents of... more -
Flickr members say 'NO' to videos
A petition has been started on Flickr saying no to the photo-sharing website's new video capability. So far, around 23,500 members have joined. I'm not one of them.
If you don't like video, the best protest would be not to post any and not to watch any. It really makes no difference to the experience as a member, in my opinion. You can share video or share photos ... where is the gripe? A petition has been started on Flickr saying no to the photo-sharing website's new video capability. So far, around 23,500 members hav... more -
Flickr goes YouTube
Flickr has now launched its video capability, putting it in direct battle with YouTube and Yahoo's arch rival Google.
Flickr's already massive membership base - which measures millions around the world (including me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foraggio/collections) - can now add video to their pages as well as photos, increasing their capacity to show off their creativity.
The thing is, many Flickr uses probably already use YouTube (like me), so will they do a John Edwards and "cross over" or will they just stay dual users? W'lle just have to wait and see. Flickr has now launched its video capability, putting it in direct battle with YouTube and Yahoo's arch rival Google. ... more -
See Flickr images all around the world AS they are being uploaded!
A cool website that displays Flikr images on a 3D globe.
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The look of music
Remember the "Graphical Representations of Rap Songs" on this site a while ago? There's a lively group on Flickr called 'The Song Chart Pool'. The idea is to pick a song you like and represent its title or lyrics in simple graphic form, like this example of Tay Zonday's epic, cult hit. Remember the "Graphical Representations of Rap Songs" on this site a while ago? There's a lively group on Flickr called 'The Song Char... more
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View the world's most stunning photos with Earth Album
Earth Album's a clever Google Maps/Flickr mashup that lets you nose through some of the world's most eye-catching, beautiful photographs.
It's not as clever as Flickr's own location-based tagging system - it won't, for example, show you pictures taken in specific areas of a city and is limited to pictures from the entire city instead, but it is very clever and a lot of fun to browse.
Earth Album's a clever Google Maps/Flickr mashup that lets you nose through some of the world's most eye-catching, beautiful photograp... more -
Random album cover web game
Catchy title, yes? To play, take a random article title from Wikipedia, the last four words from the last quote on Wikipedia's Random Quotations page and add the third picture from Flickr's Interesting photo page.
The article title is your band's name, the end of the random quote is the album title, and the random picture is your album cover. Links for all the sources are here:
Band name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Album title:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
Album art:
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ Catchy title, yes? To play, take a random article title from Wikipedia, the last four words from the last quote on Wikipedia's Random ... more -
News in the 1910's
This selected set of 1,500 photographs is from a large collection of almost 40,000 glass negatives. The entire collection spans 1900-1920 and richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, and political activities, with a special emphasis on life in New York City. This selected set of 1,500 photographs is from a large collection of almost 40,000 glass negatives. The entire collection spans 1900-1... more
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