Posts Tagged with ‘Flickr’

After talking with Angela LoSasso at Web 2.0 Expo, I started thinking about some of the "dinosaur" companies: enterprise and Web 1.0 companies that are trying to find their way in the Web 2.0 space. I had just seen a press release announcing the appointment of a "Chief Blogger" at Eastman Kodak Company. Like most born-and-bred Rochesterians, I've lived in the shadow of Kodak my whole life (literally: the house I grew up in was on the same street as [...]

All hail Twitter Local which clued me in that RSSmeme creator Ben Golub actually lives in my own backyard. I planned on waiting until the next Open Coffee Club to grill him, but in honor of RSS Day, I bumped up my plan of attack and he agreed to an interview in honor of the day.
Cyndy: So what prompted you to come up with RSSmeme?
Ben: It's really all thanks to Louis Gray, who hyped Readburner, which is a great [...]

Just yesterday Yahoo! announced that it would be adding video capabilities (which were added today) to its extremely popular photo-sharing site, Flickr. Now, just one day later there seems to already be a rapidly growing group among Flickr users, as reported on Webware, who are against the move and want the site to remain dedicated to photography.
Flickr, however, views videos as "moving snapshots people take now that digital cameras can record video as well as still images, " according to [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without ever weeding through all the emails in there, and whether I hit a storage ceiling or not, it leads to one huge mess.
Gmail has an [...]

In a move that seems somewhat delayed on Adobe's part, given the amount of competing web-based services already available, the beta release of Adobe Photoshop Express has been publicly launched.
Despite carrying the same name as the legendary digital image editing software, Photoshop Express is a free service that is more of a cross between Google's Picasa and Picnik, the web-based photo editor used with Flickr.
Sure there are plenty of choices when someone wants to quickly edit a photo online (FotoFlexer, [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]

I have a constant flow of apps in my inbox and in Firefox tabs, waiting to see if they are worth a review. Most of the time, when an app is unusable or has major bugs, I just delete it and move on. But I had two apps in a row last week that this happened with, and I realized it's a symptom of a larger problem with many Web 2.0 start-ups.
The two apps I tried using were SyncWizard and [...]

It's been a while since I looked to see how Zooomr was doing. They recently received their second Webware 100 nomination, so I thought it was time to revisit the site.
The good news is that Zooomr is still around. After their problems with launching Mark III last spring, they've managed to keep the site running, relocate their servers (albeit with an issue or two), and even start to monetize the site with ads and a freemium model, where [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]