Tag Archives: Flickr
Facebook Files Lawsuit Against Yahoo!
Last month Yahoo! filed a lawsuit against Facebook that claimed Facebook’s News Feed, ads, and privacy settings infringed on their patents. Today Facebook has filed a countersuit against Yahoo! through 10 of their patents. Facebook said that Yahoo!’s Flickr photostream and their recent activity feature infringes a Facebook patent that is related to generating a personalized feed of stories on a social network. ”While we are asserting patent claims of our own, we do so in response to Yahoo’s short-sighted decision to attack one of its partners and prioritize litigation over innovation,” stated Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.
Categories Facebook, Flickr, Ted Ullyot, Yahoo!
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Flickr Starts Disabling Pinterest Pins On Copyrighted Images
Pinterest was recently questioned about whether they would be in violation of displaying copyright images. Now Flickr has updated their website to prevent Pinterest users from “pinning” copyrighted images from Flickr. About 5 days ago, Pinterest wrote a tutorial for website owners to block users from “pinning” them.
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Flickr To Get A New Design Which Will Make Them Look Like Pinterest
A Flickr redesign was rumored earlier today. The new design will make Flickr look just like Pinterest. Flickr will have a new photo stream design, Justified View, and a new uploading feature called Uploadr.
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Categories Flickr, Pinterest, Yahoo!
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Klout Now Measures Influence from 10 Different Networks
Today is a big day for Klout. The social influence calculator just added five new networks to its algorithms, bringing their measurement possibilities to 10 total networks. Adding Tumblr, Blogger, Flickr, Last.fm and Instagram to the already-included Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and YouTube means that some Klout users are about to see a huge jump in their scores. The staff blog reminds users that “connecting an account will never lower your Score, but it may increase it as we can give you credit for your influence in that network.” TechCrunch notes that Google+ is still missing from the list but that it should be on its way soon.
Situation Room Photo Hits Close To Half Of Most Viewed On Flickr In 3 Days
The above photo was taken on May 1, 2011 and uploaded to Flickr on May 2. It is a photo of Barack Obama and other members of the White House staff watching a live feed about the mission against Osama Bin Laden. This photo has hit about 1,678,265 views thus far. The highest viewed photo on Flickr is a picture of Nohkalikai Falls, Cherrapunjee, which has 3,020,228 views thus far.
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Categories Barack Obama, Flickr, The White House
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Flickr Head of Product Strategy and Management Matthew Rothenberg Steps Down
Matthew Rothenberg was the head of product strategy and management at Flickr. Rothenberg worked at Flickr over the past 5 years and stuck around even after co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake quit Yahoo! Markus Spiering will be filling in for Rothenberg until a replacement is found. [TechCrunch]
Categories Flickr, Markus Spiering, Matthew Rothenberg, Yahoo!
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Flickr Announces App For Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7
Flickr has recently announced Flickr for Windows 7 and Flickr for Windows Phone 7. Through the Flickr apps, you will be able to swipe through panoramic blades to see all recent activity and the latest uploads from your contacts. The app is fully optimized for high-resolution display. Tapping on a photo brings up a full-screen lightbox view.
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Flickr Accidentally Deletes Mirco Wilhelm’s Account Which Had 4,000 Photos Stored
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) photo sharing website Flickr.com has accidentally deleted the account of Mirco Wilhelm, which had 4,000 photos stored. Fortunately Wilhelm had the photos stored somewhere else. However Mirco’s photos were being linked to from all over the web including Flickr’s blog itself.
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Categories Flickr, Mirco Wilhelm, Yahoo!
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107 Trillion E-Mails Were Sent Out In 2010
The complete stats about e-mail, websites, web server market share, domain names, Internet users, web browsers, videos, images, and social media are out and Pingdom did a great job aggregating all of this information. About 107 trillion e-mails were sent out in 2010 and 89.1% of that number was spam e-mails. As of December 2010, there was about 255 million websites. Of the 255 million websites, about 59.4% was hosted on Apache servers and 88.8 million were .com websites. The number of blogs by the end of the year was 152 million and 25 billion tweets were sent on Twitter in 2010. As of December 2010, Internet Explorer had the lead market share at 46.9% followed by Firefox at 30.8%. About 2 billion videos are watched on YouTube every day and 20 million videos are uploaded to Facebook every month. Now over 3,000 photos are being uploaded on Flickr every minute and over 3 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook per month. [Royal Pingdom]
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World Erotic Art Museum Threatening Thomas Hawk In $2M Lawsuit For Uploading Photos To Flickr
The World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, Florida has threatened Thomas Hawk with a $2 million lawsuit because he took photos and uploaded it to Flickr. However this isn’t the first time that Hawk was kicked out of a museum for taking photos or being harassed for taking photos. Below is a blog post that Hawk wrote and the museum’s response:
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Categories Flickr, Naomi Wilzig, Thomas Hawk, World Erotic Art Museum
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