Posts Tagged with ‘Flickr’

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories.
Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will have no one vetting the content. Instead, it will be a wide-open format, and they've been marketing the new site to its frequent submitters. In [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

The museum of modern betas (MOMB ) is one really cool place to get a "heads up" on upcoming startups and beta tests. I gathered a short list of new startups that might just add some fun and/or utility to your day. We review so many sites that are fantastic innovations and some that have the ability to change the way we think about Web 2.0, but there are plenty that are just plain fun and that are not designed [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision for Dandelife as well as getting a bit of a newcomer's walk-through.
Dandelife started out as a blogging platform, but it's obviously a different application than [...]

In a move that will throw many online users for yet another loop, Yahoo has decided to jump on the Open ID bandwagon. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for OpenID. But this marks the third or fourth time in a year that Yahoo has merged log in credentials without taking their users' wants and needs into account. It is my opinion they are trying to become the future OpenID single source, as they have long been driving [...]

I've heard dribs and drabs of news about Spokeo over the past year, but it took a push from Guy Kawasaki's blog over the holidays to actually get me to log in and check it out.
Spokeo, if you haven't heard about it, is an all-in-one aggregator for all your social networking sites, from Amazon wishlists to YouTube videos. In all, 33 sites are currently supported in Spokeo, allowing you to keep tabs on every site in one place.
Here's what's [...]

Profy’s Michael Garrett wrote in late October of an expected update to Flickr in the way of an image editor. Yesterday, the company delivered on its promise.
As mentioned in the previous piece by Michael G. noting the impending release, Flickr teamed up with Picnik to provide its users a set of tools – ranging from Auto-Fix to Rotate to Red-Eye – streamlined into its hosting service, effectively cutting out any need for Flickr users to maintain a [...]

A few months ago I stumbled on a web site called Schmap. At the time, I had just reviewed Schmedley, wasn't super-impressed , and somehow lumped the two sites together in my mind. I'd forgotten all about Schmap until recently, when I learned how they solicit some of the information for their site.
Schmap is an online travel guide, which doesn't sound all that unique at first. Then you hit their home page, and notice raves from Time, The Washington Post, [...]