Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Google, News, Photos | 2 Comments

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

What Orphan Works Could Mean to Bloggers

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Legal, Multimedia, Photos, Podcasting, Videos, copyright | 1 Comment

The orphan works legislation, last seen in 2006, now has the attention of Congress again with two similar bills, one in the House and one in the Senate. These bills, should either of them pass, could have a drastic impact on copyright holders both within and outside of the United States.
But what should bloggers expect […]

VentureBeat: Web 2.0 Expo Annotated Photo Gallery

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under News, Photos | Leave a Comment

VentureBeat has a great annotated photo recap of the Web 2.0 Expo - held this past week in San Francisco.

The New York Times profiles the new photography professional

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Features, News, Photos, Social Media | Leave a Comment

The New York Times takes a look at how Flickr has changed the concept of a photography professional:
Consider photography. As art-school photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph. Flickr, the wildly popular photo-sharing site, was founded by the […]

Flickr Adds New Sharing Feature

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under News, Photoblogging, Photos | 1 Comment

Flickr has added a new sharing feature, making it even easier for bloggers to pull great photos from Flickr to illustrate their blog posts. The new Share This menu gives easy access to embed code, as well as the option to nab the link, send to a friend, and blog it. The latter being if […]

More Room For Photos On Flickr

April 9, 2008 | Filed Under News, Photoblogging, Photos | 3 Comments

It’s not just video that is new on Flickr, they’ve also upped the maximum size for photos. Now non-paying users can upload photos the size of up to 10 MB, while pro users gets the new limit upped to 20 MB. Nice.

NowThen offers Brits photo messaging and blogging services

March 4, 2008 | Filed Under Mobile, Multimedia, News, Photos | Leave a Comment

A new startup has launched in the UK which offers a cost-effective way for mobile phone users to send photos to a large group of people at once, or to include on their blog.
The primary aim of the service is to allow anyone to snap a picture on their camera phone and send it, for […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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