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Yahoo touches up Flickr amid internal turmoil

It isn't a pretty picture at Yahoo Inc. right now, but that's not stopping the beleaguered Internet company from touching up its popular photo-sharing service, Flickr.

British royals expand online presence with Flickr

These aren't your average family snapshots.

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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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Source: Gizmodo

When a big company gobbles up a smaller one, often only a fraction of the money is handed over up front. The rest comes later, based on the acquisition hitting a series of deliverables down the road. It's similar to how incentives are built into the contracts of professional …

The Man From Degban, He Say, 'Um... it wasn't us, honest!'
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Unfortunately, on February 17th this year, Flickr - who are owned by Yahoo! - deleted the image from their servers. The page it was on disappeared... and with it, all the comments, favourites, and the record of its views disappeared too.

Ownership of Work-Related Social Media: Could My Employer Really Own My Twitter and LinkedIn Accounts?
Source: thomsonreuters.com/legal

Social media – encompassing web-based and mobile interactive technologies, including blogs, photo sharing, forums, and social networking, using various platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, and YouTube – is easily available, constantly evolving, and  …

Internet firms can access your texts, emails and pictures by spying through smartphone apps
Source: the Mail online

The small print included with many mobile phone apps is giving their developers the right to rifle through users' phone books, text messages and emails. By agreeing to little-read terms and conditions documents, phone users are giving developers the right to inspect their pers …

Flickr update blocks Pinterest pins of copyrighted photos
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"Pinterest has just hit its first major roadblock. On Friday, photo-sharing giant Flickr confirmed with VentureBeat that it has blocked Pinterest users from “pinning” copyrighted photos on its site to Pinterest."

Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive)
Source: VentureBeat

As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement.

(Photo) George H.W. and Jeb Bush Pay Obama an Unscheduled Visit
Source: Yahoo! News

It was nowhere to be found on the president's official schedule, but it happened: A photo posted to the White House Flickr stream just after 5 p.m. on Friday showed Barack Obama kicking back in the Oval Office with former President George H.W.

Flickr Picks the 18 Best News Photos of 2011
Source: Yahoo! News

We all may have a little year-end list fatigue, but Flickr has curated a pretty cool one: a collection of the best news photos of the year as selected by Yahoo editors.

Flickr
Source: Flickr

Flickr es casi con seguridad la mejor aplicacin de todo el mundo para administrar y compartir fotos en lnea.

Dennys Photo Gallery: Awesome Quiet Landscapes by Adrians Art
Source: visual insights

This week, while on one of my spectacular "visual vacations," I discovered this awesome photographer over at flickr.  This photographer, Adrian Campfield, is based in the United Kingdom and has an incredible emotional connection to Nat …

Photographers Poll: Do you have a Flickr account?

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp in 2004 and later acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

Lee Grace Dougherty: Who is Woman Involved in Sibling Crime Spree?
Source: wtsp

Merritt Island, Florida -- A band of siblings is wanted in a crime spree in which the three are accused of shooting at a Zephyrhills police cruiser last week and robbing a Georgia bank five hours later, according to the FBI.  

Obama to personally tweet from Twitter account - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

Barack Obama will start posting updates himself on the@barackobama twitter feed. My response to that is, what took so long? Back in April of 2009 I was quoted about the Obama twitter feed by Christina Bellantoni (who was with the Washington Times at the time).

Art: Zen Butterfly
Source: dennysartsanctuary.blogspot.com

Check out this colorful artist over at flickr, All Rights Reserved with embed code available, lacefairy1

At Flickr, your photos are always yours
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There has been some discussion on the web as of late about image ownership on photo sites so we wanted to take a moment to address this on Flickr.

Flickr Cites 'Community Guidelines' For Censorship of Egyptian Blogger's Photos
Source: thomashawk.com

TechCrunch is reporting that Flickr has cited "Community Guidelines" for censoring an Egyptian blogger's uploaded photos of Egyptian Secret Police. The photos in question were originally uploaded by Hossam Hamalawy, aka Arabawy to his Flickr account here.

"Cat Correspondent" Wanted: Search Is On by Purina
Source: KPHO Phoenix

There will be 5 audtions nationwide. If your purr-fect feline is tired of that old catrnip, and would like to earn $50K travelling for a year; then Purina would like to see your cat at one of the auditions... _________________________ Eric Zotcavage, Content Creator, KPHO

'Eraser' Software for Web Photos Developed by German Firm
Source: myfoxphoenix

This is great news, now to be able to erase those unwanted photos..............

7 Flickr alternatives, just in case
Source: theNextWeb.com

With Yahoo picking off its services one by one, it's no surprise that people have been speculating about which one will die next. Though the roadmap appears to be laid out at least through the end of this year, 2011 might hold some surprises.

Online photo coincidences betray your friends
Source: newscientist.com

The power of coincidence may help identify the social ties of even the most privacy-conscious web user, a new study of image-sharing site Flickr suggests.

Reverse Trick or Treat: the most amazing Halloween costume ever
Source: Flickr

One Halloween our doorbell rang...we opened the door expecting to see Trick or Treaters...but what was in front of our door -- was another door!

Blue Dot Flickr Profile
Source: Flickr

Time Travel Mart: Whenever You Are, We're Already Then (photos)
Source: laughingsquid.com

A few photos I shot in 2009 of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart in Los Angeles, a time travel themed store that helps support 826LA, a non-profit organization “dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helpi …

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