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"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.

Nokia closes Porn'n'Warez swap site
Source: The Register (UK)

Nokia is closing its Web 2.0-tastic user generated content website MOSH.

MySpace introduces FotoFlexer's editing tools
Source: CNET.com

MySpace has brought on board some Web-based image-editing tools from FotoFlexer so that members can fool around with the photos they've uploaded to the site.

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.

The iPhone Gets Its Own Photo Sharing Site
Source: TechCrunch

Natuba is a new photo sharing site that targets iPhone users with an emphasis on mobile uploading. It comes from Richard Yoo, a former CEO of Rackspace and Serverbeach. iPhone users with Natuba accounts can add their snapshots to the site by emailing them to a special address.

Eye-Fi: First Wireless Memory Card for Digital Cameras
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

....Take a normal-looking 2GB SD card. Add a wireless chip to it. Stick the whole thing into your camera, and before you know it you've got a wireless camera.

myPhotopipe.com, Inc. - Web Based Online Provider
Source: money.cnn.com

myPhotopipe.com, Inc. is a web-based (2.0) online provider of digital photo processing, photo finishing, photo sharing, and related services. The Company's unique blend of 300+ print options, combined with manual print inspections and professional color management.

Bootstrapping Aids Photo Sharing Network
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Alex Welch the co-founder of Photobucket has started his company in a variety of funding means and that bootstrapping was a big help.

Facebook Photos Infrastructure
Source: The Facebook Blog

Facebook users love our photos application, it's one of the most popular areas on the site. The cool front-end features—like upload, tagging, and editing—are great, but I'd like to take a moment and talk about our photo infrastructure.

Yahoo Photos shutting down. Flickr is the new hotness.
Source: CNET

Brad Garlinghouse, SVP of Yahoo and author of the famous "Peanut Butter Manifesto," in which he told people inside Yahoo that the company was spread too thin, told me tonight at a dinner that "I'm eating my own peanut butter." On Friday, he said, Yahoo will begin to close down Ya …

Screenshot of Google's new interface (beta)
Source: Google

Google is apparently phasing in a sleeker, more professional interface for their main search engine. As this screenshot shows, this is a different and much cleaner interface than the one previewed last year, which is now in use on Google News Search. :)

Photo Digg can be easily gamed
Source: http://things.co.il

Picli.com, a new site that is the "Digg for Photos" launched recently. It aims to be a site where users can share links to photo. The site is totally immature. There are various flaws. The biggest problem is the easy "gaming" possibility. This is how I did it:

Pickle out of it's Pickle: Photos & Videos from your phone to MySpace

Pickle has just launched a slideshow widget that will operate on all the regulars, including MySpace and hi5.

The Yahoo-ization of Flickr
Source: technomarketer.typepad.com

Flickr makes changes to bring community in line with Yahoo! to the community's dismay.

Pic2.us - Free Image Hosting Service
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Pic2.us is an image hosting and photo sharing service for users who want to host pictures and create free online photo albums.

GigaOM » Everything But the Kitchen Sync
Source: GigaOM

Multi-device synchronization of photos. While interesting, what I am looking for is the ability to take web based apps, like Google Calendar and be able to access both on and offline and have it synch each time I go online-same with sites like Pageflakes or Protopage or Goowy

Photobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati
Source: TechCrunch

Analysis of two major photo sharing sites seem to indicate that the former is a lot more popular.

Why is Flickr afraid of Zooomr?
Source: TechCrunch

"What's at issue is the ability for innovative companies to build server-to-server import interfaces that make it far easier for non-technical users to try out a new service and take what they own with them.

Smilebox Makes People Happy

I was recently looking into creating an electronic photobook for family and in my search on Google I ran across Smilebox.

BubbleShare

It's not going to replace Photoshop (or ), but BubbleShare is a terrific program. It shares photos, and then you can put in audio and bubble captions. You can also rotate the photos.

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