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Photo Sharing

Flickr’s Galleries: Sharing the Work of Others

I had a great post set for today about a website and link sharing project, but we’ll postpone that for a day to talk about something that caught me by surprise. Yesterday Flickr launched a new feature called Galleries. Read the announcement on the Flickr blog for more details, but the idea is that members [...]

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I Can’t Afford to Not Be On Flickr

About a month ago, I highlighted the situation of a Flickr user Matt Stigliano, whose account was permanently deleted without warning. At that time, I decided to rethink my use of Flickr and whether or not it was a wise choice for a professional photographer to publish work on a service that engages in such [...]

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Alternatives to Flickr

With the recent publicity over Flickr’s propensity to delete accounts without warning or recourse, a few people have asked about alternatives to Flickr. Let’s look at a few: SmugMug offers a great set of tools for photo hosting and sharing with a slick user interface. They offer three levels of (paid) membership with prices ranging [...]

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Flickr Permanently Deletes Yet Another User Without Warning

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Flickr seems to be getting aggressive about deleting accounts. Last week I wrote about the fact that Thomas Hawk was banned from their forums for pointing out situations where Flickr’s staff had made nonreversible deletions of members’ accounts. Today I learned of another deletion, that of San Antonio realtor Matt Stigliano, aka @rerockstar. Unlike some [...]

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Tweet Your Photos from SmugMug

Flickr isn’t the only service which makes it easy to share photos from your galleries via Twitter. I use SmugMug for my fine art print sales as well as client proofing. I’ve started to put a few other photos there as well, and they make it very simple for a photographer to share via Twitter, [...]

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Thomas Hawk Banned from the Flickr Help Forums

Thomas Hawk is one of Flickr’s most prolific photographers, posting a couple dozen photos per day (or more). He posts some really great work (for example, see his set of photos with more than 25 “favorites”). His blog has occasionally featured the stories of photographers who have had their work (or even their entire Flickr [...]

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Photo Licensing and the State of Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is the de facto online encyclopedia, providing a vast amount of information on any subject imaginable. Recently New York Times writer Noam Cohen took a look not at the text of Wikipedia, but at the photos. He wasn’t impressed: Photographs are a glaring flaw in the Wikipedia model. Unlike the articles on the site, [...]

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Do You Have a Moment?

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Group photo walks and events can be fun. While Scott Kelby’s recent WorldWide Photo Walk aimed to capture a bunch of images on the same day, another venture wants to cut that time slice down to a single moment. The Worldwide Moment project aims to celebrate peace by photographers around the globe taking photographs simultaneously [...]

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Binghoo! and the Future of Flickr

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The big news in the tech world yesterday was an agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft which essentially shuts down Yahoo’s search business, with Yahoo searches to now be powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine and the companies to share revenue from ad sales. Will there be an impact on Flickr, a Yahoo property and one [...]

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What is Interestingness?

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What is interestingness? The short answer is that it’s a way of measuring a photo’s popularity on Flickr. The long answer is that nobody knows the exact formula for computing a photo’s interestingness. It’s a combination of number of views, number of times that someone marks the photo as a favorite, and number of times [...]

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