Flickr Blocks Pinterest Users From Posting Copyrighted Content
(flickr.com/rasamalai/5949864741/) As Betabeat reported Tuesday, Flickr is making major changes--and apparently getting serious about protecting user copyright is among them. Late Friday VentureBeat...
View ArticleFlickr’s New Look Gets Early Rave Reviews
(flickr.com/renolauren via the Flickr blog) Flickr has started rolling out those major changes we told you about, and the early reviews are glowing. The "contacts" screen where Flickr shows new photos...
View ArticleFlickr Adds Photo Editor, Powered by Aviary
Aviary's new embedded editor in Flickr. Flickr, in the midst of its most drastic makeover since its acquisition by Yahoo, just announced it will be rolling out a new embedded photo editor to users over...
View ArticleBuddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow Thinks You Should Sleep with Your Cofounder
The Lazerows (michaellazerow.com) In a bizarre missive with a linkbaity headline, Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow declared "I Have Sex With My Co-Founder. And I Like It." Okay, thanks for sharing? Mr....
View ArticleFlickr Launches New HTML5 Uploader, Increases File Size Limits
A peek at the new Flickr Uploadr. The photo-sharing service continues to roll out updates to a long-stagnant product with a faster, prettier uploading page. The new Flickr photo and video uploader...
View ArticlePinterest and Flickr Debut New Auto-Attribution System
The new look. (Screencap) One of Pinterest’s problems: the overpowering temptation to post without proper attribution or regard for copyright. Rather than bet against social media users’ laziness, the...
View ArticleFlickr Adds ‘Liquid’ Photo Layout
Flickr's photo page evolution. More changes from Flickr, which has kicked into high gear so far in 2012 in order to drag the still-popular photo sharing site out of the early aughts. Today the company...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Camera Used on Flickr? The iPhone.
(Image: apple.com) Flickr just released its quarterly stats report, which reveals a few fun facts. Did you know that there are now 7.2 billion photos on Flickr, with users uploading 2,500 new photos a...
View ArticlePhotobucket Gets a Major Redesign to ‘Take Back Control’ of Your Photos
Photobucket--the janky-looking, but still widely-used image-hosting site once owned by News Corp--is debuting a serious overhaul for the first time in years with an emphasis on taking control of the...
View ArticleAnonymous Hacks North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr Accounts
(Photo: Flickr) One day after hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed to have stolen 15,000 membership records from the "semi-official" North Korea government outlet uriminzokkiri.com, the country's...
View ArticleWith Tumblr in the Bag, a Triumphant Marissa Mayer Takes a Victory Lap
Couldn't miss it. Chief Yahoo Marissa Mayer looked pretty damn chipper as she took the stage in a small room overlooking Times Square, late yesterday afternoon. Technically, the press had gathered for...
View ArticleBooting Up: It Was All a Dream, I Used to Read Word Up Magazine
(Wikipedia) Is Vine going to run into the same legal headaches as early hip hop? [GigaOm] Searching for a framework to explain the conflict between wearable tech pros and opponents, Nick Bilton went...
View ArticleBooting Up: Tinder Briefly Exposed Users’ Locations Over the Weekend
Exposed. (Screencap: Tinder) Tinder users' locations and Facebook information were briefly available through a simple hack this weekend. The data was only exposed for a few hours, and the company says...
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