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Yahoo! Research, with their minds bent on "the next generation of search," have come up with a unique way of viewing how tags have evolved over time on Flickr. Tags are like keywords that are assigned to millions of photographs by Flickr members. The Taglines project gives a visual representation [...]
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Announcements
Monday was Memorial Day in the US. I took last Friday as well for a nice, relaxing 4-day weekend. Welcome back, everyone. As soon as I finish my coffee, it's time to get back to work.
Meanwhile, the two lucky winners of the Pod giveaway drawing are Deirdre from New York [...]
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Reader Photos
water drops, originally uploaded by *sam.
Photos posted in this category are selected from the contributions of members of the Photodoto discussion group at Flickr.com.
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Reviews
I must just be in a reviewy mood this week, but have you seen Slickr from Cellar Door Software? It's a fantastic screen saver for Windows (sorry, Mac and Linux guys---I'll review more OSX and Linux stuff in the future) that integrates with photo-sharing site Flickr. The latest version, 1.0.1 [...]
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Grab bag
The Chicago Tribune has a thoughtful article about the empowerment and problems created by the ubiquity of photographic devices from traffic cameras to cell-phones and the responsibility we all share in the use of the images from those devices.
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