Outside Murdok’s home office, it’s semi-cloudy, a bit damp, and somewhere in the 40s. So if, like us, you’d prefer a nicer scene to look at, consider dropping in on Flickr’s Best of 2007 events.
Fox Nabs Santa Pug From Flickr
Television networks and sports leagues are pretty vigilant about protecting their content, and have gotten fairly nasty about it lately, especially in relation to the Internet. That righteous indignation doesn’t always go both ways, though, as these same entities can be lax when it comes to use of other people’s content.
Two Billionth Photo Finds Its Way To Flickr
Some people have their bookshelves lined with photo album upon photo album, and I find that quite impressive. Flickr’s got ‘em beat, though, as the photo-sharing site recently received its two billionth upload.
Careful How You Use Flickr Images
When I started my music podcast, I needed an apporpriate image for the podcast blog. I found an ideal image on Flickr accompanied by a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The image of an electric guitar neck now graces the JamJourney blog.
Optimize for Yahoo Images Search with Flickr
Google Blogoscoped reports that Yahoo’s Image Search now particularly likes Flickr content, so this may be incentive for webmasters to use Flickr “as a kind of Yahoo search engine optimization”.
Yahoo Keeps It In The (Flickr) Family
A little bit of nepotism is to be expected. A lot of it can be annoying, and, in the case of Yahoo’s image search results and Flickr, rather less than helpful.
Flickr Criticized For Regional Censorship
Yahoo’s Flickr is the latest target of criticism after restricting access to erotic art photos in Hong Kong. Though Internet companies self-censoring in certain countries is not a new dilemma, this incident coincides with a blogger that faces fines for just linking to offending material.
Yahoo Image Search Incorporates Flickr Photos
Flickr is owned by Yahoo, and now the two operations are closer than ever- photos from Flickr have been integrated into Yahoo Image Search.
Flickr Relaxes Filters In Germany
In recent weeks and months, I’ve noticed that the Internet seems to have its own c-word: censorship. I’ve also noticed that, like most companies, Yahoo wants nothing to do with this word. So it wasn’t a huge surprise when Yahoo’s photo-sharing service, Flickr, relaxed its filters in Germany.
Flickr Installs Filters In Germany
Earlier this week, we learned that Flickr had started supporting seven new languages. Unfortunately, news has now come that Flickr is “filtering” – not censoring, mind you – content in several of those tongues.
Flickr Says No To German Photos