Snapfish prints your Flickr photos (but only your own)
Popular Yahoo-owned photo site Flickr announced today that through a deal with Snapfish (itself owned by HP), users around the world can now print the photos they’ve uploaded into the site, turning them into prints, books, calendars, and more.
Printing seems like it could be a big money-maker, and in fact Flickr previously had more limited partnerships with services like QOOP and TinyPrint. The company now says that Snapfish, with its locations in 22 countries, is… Continue Reading
Flickr Galleries let you curate public photos, videos
Yahoo’s photo-sharing social network, Flickr, has added a popularly-requested feature: Members can create one-page collections of up to 18 photos culled from Flickr’s enormous trove of publicly-shared photos. You can see sample Galleries here.
How is a gallery different from Flickr’s favorites feature? “Think of a gallery like favorites on steroids,” Flickr’s online help says. As a former documentation writer, I can confirm this tells us nothing.
Galleries differ from Flickr in the same way museum exhibits… Continue Reading
Flickr adds direct-to-Twitter publishing
What took them so long? Flickr now has a built-in feature that lets members tweet their photos. “You can upload directly to Flickr and Twitter simultaneously, or tweet a photo already on Flickr, using a special short Flic.kr URL,” says the company’s FAQ. It also explains how to post photos from your phone, and how to tweet from Flickr.
From an email sent to us by Twitter’s PR firm (we’ve added links to the relevant account… Continue Reading
After trying it out, I have a good feeling about Hunch
I am an extremely indecisive person. This sometimes frustrates other people, but it frustrates me even more because I absolutely hate wasting time. And being indecisive means I sit there thinking about decisions for far too long. Hunch, a new startup that helps you make decisions, offers a potential solution.
While the idea of a startup that helps you make decisions may sound either boring or completely too complicated to actually work, I’ve been playing with… Continue Reading
Roundup: Windows Marketplace strategy, Apple netbook craze continues, Getty gets Flickr images and more
Here’s the latest action:
Microsoft unveils Windows Marketplace developer strategy — Like Apple, Microsoft will give developers a 70 percent cut of app sales. But the keyword in the company’s press release seems to be “transparency,” an obvious shot at Apple’s less-than-transparent rules for its store. Of course, Apple’s App Store may already be on pace to be a billion dollar a year business, and Windows Marketplace will need Windows Mobile 6.5 — which won’t be available… Continue Reading
Radar connects with Flickr for photos and comments
When starting a conversation, you need a topic. In Radar’s case, that topic is pictures. Users upload them, and other users comment on them. The problem is that Radar is still a growing network, and so it may not offer many conversation starters for new members. Enter Flickr.
Flickr, Yahoo’s hugely popular online photo service, has billions of photos. Thanks to a new integration with Radar, these photos can now be carried over to the Radar… Continue Reading
Flickr opens video for all, and HD video for Pro users
Flickr, while known as one of the main picture hubs on the web, is also a pretty nice place to share videos. Until now, though, that option has only been available to users with “Pro” paid accounts. Today, that changes as the service opens up video uploads to all users while granting Pro members the ability to go high definition with their video uploads.
If you’re wondering why you might use Flickr for videos as opposed… Continue Reading
Roundup: Twestival is tomorrow, Palm talks Pre and patents, Google pays up and more
Here’s the latest action:
Twestival: Bad name, good cause — Tomorrow, over 175 cities around the world will host Twitter festivals (really, meetups), or Twestivals, to raise money and awareness for charity:water, a project aimed at giving some 1.1 billion people on the planet access to clean drinking water. To find an event near you, visit the Twestival site. If you can’t go to one, Magnify.net is powering a live video stream found here, and you can… Continue Reading
100 million photos suggests Flickr has put geotagging on the map
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Location, location, location. As in, it’s going to be a big part of what we do on the web going forward. We’re seeing some of the big companies now get into it, like Google with its new Latitude service. And Yahoo’s Flickr service, which geotags photos so you have a record of where they were taken, is exploding — to the tune of 100,868,302 as of… Continue Reading
Flickr pretties up its mobile site, but where’s the iPhone app?
Yahoo’s online photo sharing site Flickr today rolled out the new mobile version of its site. Phones such as Nokia’s N Series, the Samsung L870, phones with Opera Mobile browsers, Android-based phones and, yes, the iPhone (and iPod touch) can now access the new version of the site at m.flickr.com.
The new site, which iPhone users have been able to see in beta form since October, looks great. It reminds me a lot of the original… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google goes deeper into TV ads, CNN uses Facebook Connect, Flickr’s new homepage and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google starting to catch on to this TV ad thing? –It’s been almost two years since the search advertising giant made its first foray into television advertising. In order to grow, it’s going to need more time slots (inventory) to sell. It took a step in that direction this week, striking a deal with Harris Corp., a company that will help add and manage new inventory. Google TV Ads also made a deal… Continue Reading
From MySpace to Facebook to Flickr to LinkedIn, here’s looking at you
Rapleaf, a company that provides people-focused search services to corporate clients, spends a lot of time mining social networking data. It has just released a survey studying the social networking habits of the 49.3 million people it has information about, divided by age. Sample sites include MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Flickr.
Here’s some of the findings, lifted directly from the survey:
- 120 million social network profiles (total) were found, with each person averaging 2-3 social networks
PS: Grou.ps, another way for groups to collaborate online
There are already a few models out there for helping groups collaborate, including wikis and more complex conceptualizations of project management software.
Into this competitive area of web software steps Grou.ps, a sort of group-focused web software service. The company is trying to combine blogs, wikis, aggregated rss feeds, live chat and other key components of web communication into one, coherent system. One person creates a group and invites more members. Each member has their own… Continue Reading
Yahoo launches Flickr Video, puppet tells Arrington
Our good friend Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has news on the impending launch of Flickr Video. While it’s a little hard to take an announcement seriously when it’s done via video blogger Loren Feldman playing Shel Israel as a puppet (embedded below), the details of the post seem legitimate.
Whereas market leader YouTube exploded in popularity thanks at least in part to its ease in distribution of copyrighted material, Flickr Video will look to cater to… Continue Reading
Roundup: McCain and Obama lead in California, AOL acquires buy.at, Blue Frog bankruptcy, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Super Tuesday looks good for McCain, Obama in California
Update: But California went to Clinton / McCain
2) AOL acquires affiliate network buy.at
3) Blue Frog Media files for bankruptcy
4) Google Apps adds security from Postini
5) Solar panels that work even when the sun’s down
6) Baidu sued for linking to pirated music
7) Middle East cable break speculations
Flickr users still hate Microsoft
Super Tuesday looks good for McCain, Obama in California — According to the third… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s StumbleUpon clone, Froogle gone, Google phone, more
Here’s the latest action:
Google’s fireworks — This has been an impressive week for Google, and it shows in the 4 percent-plus jump in Google’s stock price earlier this morning (though it has tapered in the past hour). The main driver was its stellar earnings report. But here are the side-shows:
Video: It announced a video-conferencing product acquisition this morning (see our story).
StumbleUpon lookalike: Google also released a tool that looks a lot of like StumbleUpon, the site… Continue Reading
Spokeo — integrates MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and more
People — especially young people — are spending more time online, and they’re developing loyalties to certain social networking sites.
Many young people have profiles and friends at multiple sites (Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, etc), and it takes effort to keep click through friends’ profiles to see what they’re up to. Spokeo is a new Mountain View start-up that tries to solve that problem.
It is another one of those things that seems so obvious, and helpful: It… Continue Reading
Stunning photo site, Zooomr, releases Zmail & much more
Zooomr, the photo start-up that has galloped ahead of everyone else in offering edgy photo tagging and sharing techniques, is about to release its latest feature: Zmail.
Zmail, an internal messaging system for the site, will let users notify their friends or groups of the photos they have taken — letting users avoid having to jump to an email client like most photo sites require. Zmail may not be a remarkable invention by itself, but is… Continue Reading
The thief’s Chihuahua, loopt, Snocap & more
Here’s a roundup of relevant Silicon Valley action, after the long weekend:
Yahoo employee sets up Flickr on his phone, and “captures” thief — Yahoo Web designer Ben Clemens, of Berkeley, said his phone was stolen, but that a program he’d installed made the phone automatically take pictures and upload them to Flickr. And so the phone took photos of the thief, and their Chihuahua. Here is an example (see photo). This is a pretty amazing story,… Continue Reading
Google’s blind-spot: wild ideas
Google’s badly named Google Image Labeler made us scratch our head this weekend. The clunky title is one more reminder that Google remains vulnerable despite its invincible image — something that start-up expert Paul Graham also points out in a recent interview.
One advantage that big companies have is leverage. Google, with its many millions of users, is now attempting an end-run around other Web 2.0 photo search sites, by launching a game (Image Labeler) that… Continue Reading