Flickr Launches Facebook-like People Tagging Feature

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...

Flickr Recognized Yet Again for Complete Disregard of its Users

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. ...

Facebook Photo Tags Are All About The Ego, Study Shows

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,...

Inauguration day of greatest Transatlantic at Port of Genova

June 2009. Inauguration day of greatest Transatlantic at Port of Genova

Mambo Dancing Show in Tremestieri Etneo Sicilia Italy

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/

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

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...

Blogger Targeted by ‘Spin’ in $27 Billion Lawsuit

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,...

Obama's 100-Day Photos 'Delivering on Change' Posted to Flickr

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...

Blogger turns detective to solve G20 death riddle

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...

GUTTED by flickr

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...

Social web bigger than porn, gambling and pills

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...

1. Mumbai Attacks: 2008 in Review

" 2008's Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News 1.    Mumbai attacks2.    Natural disasters: Emergency info 3.    SF Olympic torch relay protests 4.   ...

Mumbai Terror: Twitter, Flickr & YouTube = Cutting-Edge News Media

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...

Flickr Now Public just for uzzze guys !

You can become a papparazzi at flickr where your picture is worth a thousand words. Stop yacking and start clicking nowpublic

Homelessness is a Worldwide Problem - It's time to Act!

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...

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