Flickr launches The Commons, a collaboration with the Library of Congress. They have posted 1500+ pictures from the FSA Archives, and the Bain News Service, which features news photos from the 1910′s. The goal of the project is to crowdsource metadata about the individual images, but beyond that nobel effort, the pictures are just great. [...]
It was a pleasant surprise to see Thomas Hawk uploading his fine images on Flickr after a long absence I wonder if that has anything to do with the release of FlickrFan, which uses the Flickr API as it’s primary way of sharing photos. Regardless, it’s nice to be seeing more of his photos again, [...]
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook: Cory Doctorow writes on Facebook’s “built-in self-destruct” : They make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to avoid.
Hmm… Recipes will have their own markup language soon?
Because of this, I’m tempted. Nelson Minar puts it best: “What asshole bizdev person at Facebook thought it’d be a good idea to let third party sites implant your purchase history on Facebook? Tracking user behaviour across third party sites is wrong. Ignoring an opt-out popup for 20 seconds is not evidence of informed consent. [...]
wow. That’s a lot of photos! I’ll be helping their way along to 3B, as I just sprung for a flickr pro acct.
I’ve been tracking Miro for a while, since it was called ‘Democracy’. It has some really nice integration with Youtube and other web video services. You can use it as your ‘vodcast’ download app to watch your Crave or Mahalo feeds. (Hey VBS.tv, get on the RSS boat, already!) It also has integration with BitTorrent, [...]
I don’t often write about workstuff on this little blog, but since this story has roots in ‘social media’, I think it’s worth continuing here. Yesterday, as I was leaving the office for lunch, a tweet comes through from Scott Beale/Laughingsquid. I follow Scott on Twitter (sent to my phone via SMS), have his blog [...]
The Right-Wing Facebook is a parody site of fake Facebook profiles from Republican presidential candidates. and, (surprise) leftwingfacebook.com is registered but (currently) empty.
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