Flickr


Washington City Paper: Eyewitness Confirms: D.C. Cop Freaks Out Over Snowball Fight–Brandishes Gun

Sunday, 20 December 2009, 14:28

Interesting example of a local story with much information added to the local paper's account via material uploaded to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs etc…

Continue Reading Add comment

Techcrunch: Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App

Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 16:43

"Yahoo’s Flickr app has just gone live in the App Store."

Continue Reading Add comment

The Journalism Iconoclast: News orgs have forgotten that people really love photos

Saturday, 2 May 2009, 09:34

Pat Thornton: "I hear all this talk about videos and databases and iPhone apps and Web ninjas, when news organizations could be making a killing by just utilizing something they have done well for decades: photos. Why have we lost sight of the fact that people love photos?"

Continue Reading Add comment

Mashable: Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments

Friday, 6 March 2009, 09:34

"Mashable is announcing an exclusive partnership with the blog comment service Disqus with regard to their integration of the comment aggregation service UberVU. For the next two weeks, you’ll be able to test Disqus-powered social media comments exclusively on Mashable, getting a glimpse at what both companies think is the future of blog comments."

Continue Reading 11 comments

ReadWriteWeb: Flickr Releases Handy Embeddable Slide Show

Friday, 22 August 2008, 06:27

It is now possible to embed a slideshow of Flickr photographs on another site…

Continue Reading Add comment

 Monday, 19 May 2008, 12:27 0

"Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter … and other social-media services – Flickr, YouTube, Facebook – for news catchwords such as ‘earthquake’ and ‘evacuation’."

 Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 15:24 0

Does the world really need a mashup that generates Lolcats from Flickr and BBC News headlines? Probably not, but somone’s made one anyway. (HT: psmith)

 Thursday, 17 January 2008, 14:08 0

Better picutres are being shown on the BBC, but a cameraphone picture appeared on Flickr at 13:16.

 Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 09:20 0

Ryan Sholin: "Any non-media business office worth a damn these days knows how to exchange documents, stay in contact online, promote themselves, and find out what everyone in town is saying about them."

 Saturday, 5 January 2008, 10:42 0

Robin Hamman explains an experiment at BBC Leicester that is using a Flick group to pool photos of the local weather.

 Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 18:05 0

"Online photo-sharing community Flickr has rolled out two mapping features allowing users to find photos based on geographic places in a bid to give the site local appeal."

 Saturday, 22 September 2007, 13:49 1

Creative Commons Corp was also named in the suit over the Australian mobile firm’s use of a Flickr picture in an advertisement.

 Monday, 13 August 2007, 18:28 0

"A teenage photographer is suing a US porn film company for damages after it used a photo of her aged 14 on the front cover of one of its DVDs."

 Friday, 10 August 2007, 11:39 0

More on the BBC Mundo multi-media, social media reporting triip across the United States.

Previous Posts