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Archive for the ‘Flickr’ Category

April 2nd, 2008

Song Chart Meme!

The rise of geek culture has created a convergence of culture vultures and number crunchers. No truer is that convergence than in the song chart meme going around Flickr, where the central ideas of classic song lyrics are depicted as pie charts, line graphs, Venn diagrams, map overlays, bar graphs, flowcharts, and other graphical geekery.
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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

June 9th, 2007

China Blocks Flickr

You know you’re big when China blocks you. That’s what they’re doing to Flickr on the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The popular Internet photo site Flickr said that its service is being blocked in China, although the Yahoo subsidiary did not directly blame the Beijing government, which aggressively censors the Internet of material […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

October 25th, 2006

Yahoo Bookmarks Quick Review

A quick thought on the new Yahoo Toolbar with bookmarks feature. Overall I really like the idea and it’s a very clean and smooth design.
My only problem is all my bookmarks that weren’t already in a specific folder have gone bye-bye somewhere.
All of my bookmarks highlighted over there in the screen grab are completely missing […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

August 1st, 2006

YouTube Meets Mainstream Media

CNN.com has a new feature enabled on their website that allows users to submit their own eye-witness news stories, videos or photos, called “I-Reports” on the CCN exchange
I like the name actually, it definitely fits, but I think maybe “I-Witness-Reports” would have worked too, but now that I type it and see it in black-and-white, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

July 4th, 2006

Another Online Storage Service

With all the talk about Web 2.0, having another place to store a significant stack of data online is still needed.
Streamload.com could be just the place you’ve been looking for to serve that need. You can store 25GB of data online for free. That’s right! 25GB for free. From their homepage they tout the service […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

December 20th, 2005

Web Events of 2005: Yahoo Acquires Flickr

On March 20th, 2005 Yahoo began, what I see as a key campaign to enhance and solidify the “social” marketplace. In the first of a key series of social network acquisitions, Yahoo married Flickr into its family.
Flickr was a key moment for Yahoo as it began the opening of developer APIs amon the […]

By Aaron -- 0 comments

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