Posts Tagged with ‘Flickr’

Phoja is a new social community that is focused around photographs.
At first glance, it seemed like a Flickr-Digg mashup with its ranking system, but then I realized the differences, and the true potential that Phoja has.
This Melbourne-based startup was established in mid-2007 with an aim to encourage social discussion and community recommendations based on photographs.
The way I see it, there are 2 primary ways in which Phoja can be beneficial for users. Not including, of course, the benefits from [...]

Last month I was completely underwhelmed by Pownce. If you've been under a Social Networking rock over the last little while, Pownce is a Twitter-like service which updates your social network about what you're doing, new links, new videos, etc. The appeal of Pownce WASN'T the service itself - it was the invite process. Everyone wanted to get an invite, then dangle it over their friends who, in turn, did the same to their friends. While the viral effect on [...]

Today’s top social networks are many things. They’re popular, obviously. They’re also pretty powerful, relatively speaking. And they offer a lot of stuff in one place. Some might say too much stuff. Nonetheless, a great many people seem to find the overload to be a sign of strength.
There’s one thing, however, that the top guns in the game don’t excel with: design.
Yes, design. The field of work that (ideally) blends artistry and engineering together into products as pleasing to [...]

One of the coolest things about all the new service sites is that they seem to have led to the development of an entire field of cottage industries around them. Some are businesses extending their reach by using Web 2.0 companies, while others are all-new businesses that have sprung up, and still others stumble upon a money-making opportunity using 2.0 they hadn't anticipated.
File Blendtec under the last category. The commercial blender company, based in Orem, Utah, has just 186 employees, [...]

A new feed aggregator service known as Afeeda is out to simplify feed reading by allowing users to create a single feed that combines multiple feeds from different sources. You start out by choosing between making a personal, group or event feed. Personal feeds gather your own created content such as personal blogs and Flickr accounts. Group feeds are used to aggregate content from anywhere, while event feeds are centered around – you guessed it - events. Once you create a [...]

Firefox plug-ins have most to do with tweaking the browser’s performance, adding to its powers, and increasing user productivity. And lots of other things, too. Now there’s one that helps you make the most of Web-based photo albums. It’s called PicLens, and it helps you enjoy digital slideshows as they were meant to be enjoyed: full-screen.
A number of caveats right from the get go, though, and they’re important memos for all you peoples out on the Web loving the wealth [...]

Early last month we brought you news that Yahoo! had decided to put its Photos site to rest. Well, the company?s still going ahead with the plan, only we now know when it?s going to hit the hay for good.
98 days from today. September 20th, 2007. That?s when it?s to be put away, never to return. Well, never say never, but…yeah, never. Au revoir, Yahoo! Photos. We won?t miss you in the least.
Yahoo! clearly wants to make Flickr its [...]

I like Flickr. I use it quite a bit. As do millions and millions of others. Throughout the world.
Because it’s something of a global enterprise, however, its long-held English-only existence has come as a significant limitation in its drive for expansion. So Flickr has finally decided to do something it should have done long ago: support additional languages.
Some of our higher ups here at Profy likely won’t take too kindly to the fact that Flickr has not chosen Russian as [...]

My husband, an avid Flickr user, forwarded me the Community Uprising du Jour, this time regarding "censorship" on Flickr. The community is in an uproar over the deletion of a photo and accompanying comments that were provoked by the alleged theft of an image from a Flickr user.
I'm always a defender of copyrighted content. After all, I'm a writer, and if you think it doesn't bother me to see my articles on splogs and points I make lifted by other [...]