Good news for Flickr members everywhere is the news that image-library giant Getty Images is following rival Photo-Shelter in trawling through Flickr to spot pictures that it can sell on members' behalf. Anyone who has used creative commons (and that includes most creative agencies like ourselves ), will know that it opens the door to tens of thousands of images taken by amateur photographers and posted on Flickr, which are available for commercial use. A lot of these are as good as what you'd find on a commercial image bank, if not better, and they are currently being given away by their creators for ...
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Millions of people use Flickr nationwide for commercial promotion purposes, including: artists, photographers, real estate agents, bloggers, students, models, and more. Even JVF Consulting has been a frequent Flickr visitor for many years now, we love to browse through pictures of family and friends and also on occasion search through photostreams from around the world. There are dozens of photo sharing websites out there, but Flickr has caught the attention of the global online community, and it has spread like wildfire. This wildfire has sparked JVF into creating an official JVF Consulting photostream on Flickr. To see our impressive portfolio of logos, corporate identities, ...
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Yup, we were surprised, too. But a brand new service, currently in private beta testing, aims to extract the “soft erotic” videos and images from the popular social media sites YouTube and Flickr. Members of eroticr (behind a holding page) can import photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube or upload images from their own computers. Obviously eroticr is being very careful here with regard to the DMCA and child porn: there are warnings about uploading copyrighted content, making sure that those in the images/videos are adults, and only adding “erotica” to the site, rather than “pornography”. I’m not really sure where they’ll draw the ...
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i call it, 'ghost arms.' Originally uploaded by sufjan Upon doing various searches about the flickr web-world, I entered a horrible and very secret combination. Everyone who uses flickr and many other websites are aware of tags. One can enter all sorts of tags into a search on flickr. For instance if you search for "dog cat calculator" you are rewarded with: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=dog+cat+calculator&m=tags And if you search for "alaska boat net" you are rewarded with: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=alaska+boat+net&m=tags I went about searching in this fashion for quite some time and entered the horrible combination of, "vagina canon girl" you are rewarded with the girl above, as ...
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Flickr My Background is a neat little tool which checks your Flickr account every hour for uploads to your Flickr account and uses the latest photo as your Twitter background.It checks for new photos on your flickr account every hour and updates your Twitter profile background image accordingly. You need to provide you Twitter login details and validate your Flickr account. I’ve tried it out and it definitely works well however you may need to set your custom background image by going to your Twitter design settings page, click on “Change background image”, then click on the image box that appears. Also, due to ...
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