All Entries Tagged With: "Flickr"
Show Me Your Desktop Rebecca Bollwitt
Researching for this round of Show Me Your Desktop, my wife asked me how come I didn’t have many women in the interview series. This opened a whole new world for me. The world of Canadian bloggers.
Rebecca Bollwitt is a Canadian blogger. She is among the top Vancouver bloggers, a Canucks fan (NHL ice hockey [...]
October 2007 Web 2.0 Update: Microsoft Beats Google In Facebook Deal, and more
Hopefully you had a great week. Today we will be starting off a new meme here in Connected Internet. Every month, we will be posting a Web 2.0 Update, in which we’ll be updating you regarding the latest and greatest in the Web 2.0 scene.
Naturally, we will be focusing on social networks like MySpace, Facebook, [...]
Show Me Your Desktop, Jennifer Laycock
This week it’s Jennifer Laycock from Search Engine Guide and The Lactivist’s turn to Show Me Your Desktop. Jennifer wrote the first e-book about blogging I read. The e-book is called Zero cash, A little talent and 30 days. She explains how she started The Lactivist from scrath using viral marketing, CafePress, ads, SEO and [...]
Amazing Microsoft Video Showcasing Next-Gen Image Technology
I just watched a video on break.com that really stunned me. The technology on show from Microsoft included an interesting way to organise and shift through image data, and also a way of using 2D images from various sources to create amazing 3D models.
The 3D model that was created from Flickr images was [...]
Scriptovia.com – New Site For Students To ‘Share’ Work
A new startup, Scriptovia.com announced its existence to the world this week. Scriptovia.com provides an area where students from all over the world can ‘collaborate and share resources’. Hmm, sounds a lot like a site to where essays can be downloaded to avoid doing the work yourself to me.
Aseem Badshah, [...]
Widsets – Get Your Favourite Content On Your Mobile
Widsets, who have advertised previously on Connected Internet have just purchased some additional advertising, including this post.
If you haven’t come across or used Widsets yet, it’s a great service that allows you to create your own mobile widgets, featuring any blog content or feed you may like. It’s also a good way to get [...]
Woman Divorces Husband Via Billboard
Maki discovered this photo on Flickr and submitted it to Digg. I guess Steven deserved getting shamed in public like that!
WidSets – Create Customised Widgets For Your Mobile
A campaign started today on my blog from blogads which I’m very happy with as it’s perfect for my blog and good content. The campaign is from WidSets, which allows you to create your own mobile widgets, which seem to be the latest blog craze, featuring any blog content or feed that you like.
I [...]
Spokeo – New Social Network Aggregator
Harrison Tang has just emailed me about Spokeo, a new Web 2.0 project he’s put together with some of his roommates from Stanford. Spokeo is a social network aggregator that combines MySpace, LiveJournal, Flickr, Youtube, and 20 other social networks together:
It allows members to track friends’ blogs, photos, and videos in a constantly updated [...]
Flickr Introduces Digital Camera Guide
I really can’t think of a better way to find the best digital camera, than looking at what other people are buying. Flickr have introduced stats on which digital cameras were used to take photos that have been uploaded. They’ve even broken it down into point & shoot cameras, cameraphones and also by brand.
All cameras [...]
Permanently Remove Incriminating Personal Information From The Web
Following on from my post earlier about being careful about what you say on the web, there now appears to be an answer. ReputationDefender claim to be able to remove any incriminating information about you that has made its way onto the Internet:
We scour the Internet to dig up every possible piece of information [...]
Flickr Is No Longer Cool Thanks To Yahoo!
Hmmm, maybe the group of Flickr users’ who were planning a mass suicide may turn out to be write. Flickr is currently in the process of being Yahoo!’ed and seems to be losing its soul.Seems a shame. One of the things that made Flickr successful was the fact that it didn’t take itself [...]
Fllckr Users Plan ‘Mass Suicide’
A group of 400 Flickr users lead by Thomas Müller, who has loaded more than 1,400 photos at the site are planning a symbolic “mass suicide” to protest closer integration with the website’s new owner Yahoo!, who acquired the service in March. The users are protesting over a new requirement to tie [...]
Flickr launch ranking service -"interestingness"
Wireless/Mindless Internet Point Originally uploaded by NaOH.
Flickr have just launched an interesting new feature called interestingness, which is a ranking algorithm based on user behaviour around the photos taking into account some obvious things like how many users add the photo to their favourites, how many times it has been viewed and some subtle [...]
Blogging From Flickr With Blogware
"Emily"
Originally uploaded by Nad.
I finally worked out how to blog from Flickr using blogware. The following settings do the trick:
Blog Type: BloggerAPI enabled blog
API endpoint: http://www.blogware.com/xmlrpc.cgi
Username and password as normal – though you might need your username in all lower case. I did, for some reason.
Better late than never i [...]
Grrr! I can’t blog from Flickr (or can I?)
Just saw an extremely funny photo in my ‘Latest London Photos’ Flickr feed (bottom left of the page) that I wanted to post. Unfortunately blogware wasn’t listed as an option on Flickr’s site – is there any other way to add a Flickr picture?
Guide: Everything You Need To Know About Flickr
I've just registered for my Flickr account to do some testing. This guide must be the most complete on the internet.
Quick online tips has loads of other useful stuff on it -well worth a visit.
HP To Acquire Snapfish
It’s been a busy week for acquisitions in the online photos sector, with Yahoo! announcing the acquisition of Flickr and now HP acquiring Snapfish for an undisclosed amount.
San Francisco-based Snapfish is an independent business unit of District Photo, a massive mail-order film processor with operations in the United States, U.K. and Canada. The company boasts [...]
Yahoo to buy Flickr – Confirmed
Thanks again to Problogger for keeping me up to date with what is happening in the sector.
Flickr is a great little service, and it is good to see that the little guys can still launch services that will be of interest to the big guys.
To read more on the Flickr blog click here
