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.
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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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Flickr celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007
Originally uploaded by International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Today is talk like a pirate day. So have some fun and talk like a pirate.
Started in the mid nineties as an inside joke between two friends John Baur and Mark Summers. They sent a letter to Dave Barry in 2002 who liked the idea and decided to promote it.
http://www.miamiherald.com/283/story/100129.html
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Flickr users are some of the most vocal ones on the planet. I suppose it's because of all the creativity involved with the people, I suppose so they have been known to resist change, especially change associated with bigger companies. Thus in the same way that they protested the forced migration of all Flickr users to Yahoo! accounts for logging in, now they're protesting Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo . Yeah, I bet nobody saw this coming. =P
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Originally uploaded by psilver [silverph.com] After I went searching for more silly combinations, my brain said how about, "blue camera festival ny" to my surprise, once more, I was rewarded with a real life Blue Camera Festival in New York. Results Everyday there seems to be another shock. Look at how similar the below photo is to the above; both of which sharing the same tags. Read Full Story
I have not blogged in 13 days The reason I confess I've been busy flickring A fixation I can't suppress I visit my page and check my stats For new comments and reviews Then it's on to the pages of my friends Their photos to peruse With images seen and opinions left I fast approach Explore A vast array of interestingness Sights not seen before A heart in fog, a horn billed bird A puppy in a slicker These images are the reason why I'm obsessed with flickr Repentant, Kimberly<$BlogSiteFeedUrl... Read Full Story
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Originally uploaded by jchurch
Was on vacation this past week and went to Rock Jam. Check out the photos from the event located on my Flickr page. For the entire set use this link . Read Full Story
