Yahoo's photo-sharing website Flickr has launched its new people tagging "People in Photos" feature today. To me, it came as a surprise. I am not a big Flickr user, but I have an account, and for some reason I thought that if Facebook has the people tagging option, than...
The complaint (box quoted to the left in two parts) comes from a friend who asked to remain anonymous. Remember, complaints are like cockroaches: when you hear one, there are a thousand more you don't hear. ...
opinion by dysamoria | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago 152 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments
A cnet blogger recently conducted a study comparing flickr and facebook tags. How effective was each one and which did users prefer? Facebook seemed to reign supreme, mostly because of the vanity, I mean photo,...
Saturday June 20th 2009, Salsa Mambo Dancing Show in Tremestieri Etneo Amphtheater organized by the city hall Sicilia Italy - Castielli http://www.flickr.com/photos/34409164@N06/
Yeah, there is no such thing as "deleted" on the internet. Shocked? So was I when I read the following article on Yahoo Tech. The research has been done by researchers at Cambridge University who have found that...
For most of the past three weeks, I’ve been trying to learn as many details as possible about the a $27 billion class-action lawsuit pitting the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron. Only last night,...
After leading the way in his use of social media and the internet, President Obama has posted an incredible photo gallery of high-resolution, behind-the-scenes images to the photo-sharing site Flickr to commemorate...
When 47 year old Ian Tomlinson dropped dead during the G20 London summit protests on 1st April, the police announced that the unfortunate newspaper seller had died of a heart attack whilst making his way home from...
What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...
opinion by dysamoria | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago 129 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
A little more conversation, a little less action please. Internet business types often joke that if you really want to make some scratch you should just set up a porn site. Though it is sometimes...
created by mtippett | 40 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago 1788 views | 15 recommendations | 17 comments
Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other people-driven new media are increasingly the front lines of news coverage on important breaking events. While they sometimes include erroneous information, they are proving to be a valuable resource for firsthand reports, and local knowledge...
I will start out by saying that seeing Homelessness rise in my own area where I live (in a relatively wealthy neighbourhood) has just been the starting point in my interest about this growing phenomenon around the world. There are some startling statistics on the growth...