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Hey Flickr ... why so censorious?

Flickr isn’t talking about the “Jokerized” image of President Obama it yanked from its site, and it doesn’t want its users to talk about it either. Turns out, this photo-sharing “community” is more of a business than its customers like to believe.

Federal government: Star of YouTube, Flickr?

The federal government, keeping in line with President Barack Obama’s directive for a more “transparent" and open government, will soon be a staple on YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo and blip.tv, with similar plans in the works for social networking sites Facebook, MySpace and Ning.com, officials said Wednesday.

Boy Photoshops girl: A Flickr love story

Rosie Hardy and Aaron Nace are together for Valentine’s Day, which no doubt thrills their Flickr fans who’ve been following the couple’s 9 ½-month relationship via the photo-sharing Web site almost since the beginning.

Flickr turns to Getty to sell amateur photos

Flickr, a popular online photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo Inc., is teaming up with Getty Images to offer shutterbugs a chance to turn their hobby into a moneymaking endeavor.

A-B stock surges on report of possible InBev bid

Shares of Anheuser-Busch touched an all-time high on Friday on reports that Europe's InBev SA was working on a $46 billion bid for the St. Louis-based brewer.

Yahoo's Flickr Expands Into Online Video

Yahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internet's dominant video channel, Google Inc.'s YouTube.

New Editing Program Touches Up Flickr

Yahoo Inc. is touching up its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures.

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Discover Cool Photo Apps With Flickr s New App Garden - Webmonkey
Source: webmonkey.com

Everyone has an app store these days. But of course, for Flickr, the photo sharing site that brought you rainbow vomiting Panda Bears, "store" is far too pedestrian. Which is why Flickr has launched a new App Garden.

Great Photos From ... A Flickr User.
Source: Flickr

Hello, what a wonderful photso from aerostrato here: Enjoy them. Bye.

Flickr2twitter Application Takes On Twitpic
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Flickr has joined the Twitter picture sharing game with its new application Flickr2Twitter. Will people switch from Twitpic to Flic.kr?

How to geotag your photos if you are a DSLR user

There are masses of geotagged photos in cyberspace nowadays, by which I mean jpegs with location information (latitude, longitude) included in the embedded EXIF data.

Modify a Holga Camera
Source: Wired News

Hack a Holga: How to wring great photos out of cheap Chinese plastic.

Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments
Source: Gawker

Flickr user Shepherd Johnson was browsing the official White House photostream one night when he decided to post a politically-charged comment. Then another, then another. Soon, without warning, Yahoo's photo-sharing service deleted his account, complete with 1,200 pictures.

China blocks Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Chinese censors blocked access to Twitter and other popular online services today , two days before the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.

swine flu affects us all on Flickr
Source: Flickr

photo: swine flu affects us all

The President's Hair: This, This Is What It Means To Have A Black Man In The White House
Source: Politico

The caption from the White House Flickr feed: "The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own."

Gallery: Flickr users make accidental maps
Source: newscientist.com

Billions of photos have now been uploaded to the internet, and many are tagged with text descriptions. Some are even geotagged – stamped with the latitude and longitude coordinates at which the image was taken.

Pick Up Girls at Online Dating Sites
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There are many men who lack the confidence and the skill required to pick up girls at the bar. In recent years, many of these men have taken to practicing their conversational skills online.

Integrating Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr with your site
Source: newearthonline.co.uk

There are so many popular sites providing services these days that you're bound to want to integrate with them to display feeds of your own or others content on them.

GSA signs deals for agencies to use social networking sites
Source: nextgov.com

The GSA has signed deals with YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Blip.tv allowing all government agencies to post content to those sites without creating independent contracts with providers.

"Shoot the Recession" - Great photographs of the economic crisis
Source: Slate

Last week, Slate launched "Shoot the Recession," a project in which we asked our readers what the economic crisis looks like to them. The response on the photo-sharing site Flickr, where we set up a group page to collect your contributions, has been bullish.

Boy Photoshops girl: A Flickr love story - An illustrated Internet romance tests our unwillingness to believe
Source: msnbc.com

Excerpt: Rosie Hardy and Aaron Nace are together for Valentine's Day, which no doubt thrills their Flickr fans who've been following the couple's 9 ½-month relationship via the photo-sharing Web site almost since the beginning.

Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives
Source: The New York Times

IN barely 100 years, photography has gone from a magical, even mystical process, to an afterthought.

Apple iPhone art
Source: Telegraph

Apple iPhone users are now able to create artworks on the move, thanks to drawing applications including Brushes and NetSketch. Here we present a selection of the most impressive pieces posted on Flickr.

The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Show Senator Pat Roberts that small farmers aren�t little GQ-reading dilettantes
Source: ethicurean.com

Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack went before the Senate Agriculture Committee today to be confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture.

U.S. Army posts rarely seen photos, videos from Korean War
Source: USA Today

The U.S. Army is using YouTube and Flickr to provide what Stars and Stripes describes as a "rare and often stark look at Korean War combat."

Barack Obama on Flickr - TIME
Source: TIME

The historic 2008 election inspired thousands of people around the world to post their Obama-themed photography and art on the image-sharing site Flickr. Here is the best of the 100,000 images TIME examined.

Wicked Florida Flickr Bikini Babe 2008 Best Beaches
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Dr. Stephen Leatherman, a professor for environmental studies and a known beach specialist, showcases the best of US beaches annually. The lush greens, pure sands and crystal waters make up the 10 proud beaches of America.

Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Thought the Yahoo layoffs were over? Not quite... today it seems that George Oates, a high-profile member of the Flickr team and one of the site's early employees, was told that she was being given the chop too.

Is This The Photographic Proof That Palin Lied About Her Pregnancy (Or Just Another Conspiracy Theory)?
Source: The Daily Dish

As Dish readers know, there are only three public photographs that I could find of Sarah Palin pregnant with Trig (the McCain campaign insisted there were "loads" and then was forced to retract). But we now have another.

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