Tag: photo sharing

Flickr revamp spotlights photos, social features

Yahoo is trying to improve how people can use its Flickr photo-sharing site with a home page revamp. Next up: better photo pages, too.

Google adds Android app for Flickr photos

Google's Photostream will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.

Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas

Microsoft's newest web tool, Photosynth, is designed to give viewers a much zippier way to stitch multiple images together into a panoramic scene.

Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends

Lightroom 2.0 is better at editing just a portion of an image and it plays more nicely with Photoshop. More broadly, it's designed for digital-era photography challenges.

E3 '08: Avatars go Live on Xbox 360 this spring

Microsoft unveils a new avatar feature coming as part of a major system update later in the year.

Memeo launches Share for sending photos to grandma

Share your shots without a host using Memeo.

Powerhouse adds photos to Flickr Commons

A Flickr project to house publicly held images is getting hundreds of photos from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

Yahoo wants users to pinpoint photos

Yahoo will start telling people where it thinks Flickr photos were taken, but people can correct the photo-sharing site's misconceptions.

Photoshop Express now Flickrs

Adobe rolls out Photoshop Express' Flickr support, as well as an embeddable player for distributing your slideshows.

Using tags to improve the Flickr experience

The photo-sharing service's director of product management talks about the many ways tagging adds context to the understanding of what users are doing and seeing.

Photobucket shares interface, matches Flickr

Photobucket let a few commercial partners build services using the photo-sharing site's interface. Now, as with competitor Flickr, all comers will get access.

Facebook mini-feeds get hungrier: Yelp, Picasa, Flickr, Delicious

The social-networking site now allows members to pull in their feeds from those four services without installing a third-party application.

Flickr purists gripe about video expansion

Hundreds of Flickr users protest arrival of video clips. So why haven't photography buffs launched a No Dumb Snaphots group?

Yahoo allows Flickr users to upload video

In a bid to broaden Flickr — and put some pressure on Google's YouTube — Yahoo is allowing users to upload video content to its popular photo-sharing site.

Flickr now helps you find friends

Flickr's friend finder takes your e-mail contacts and sees if they've got Flickr accounts.

Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express

Adobe's free Web-based version of Photoshop lets people edit and share photos with 2 gigabytes of storage.

PicApp offers ad-sponsored stock photos

Stock photography houses have been under siege from the millions of amateurs shooting quality photos and making them available for free.

Flickr Video beta due in April

Yahoo executives say at a party that Flickr Video is "coming soon." Further investigation reveals that "soon" may be next month.

Photobucket u-turns on 'nude' baby picture ban

Photo sharing site Photobucket has quickly u-turned on a decision to ban pictures that show babies in nappies. The company originally removed such images from its site because they depicted "nudity", which it said threatened the safety and security of its users.

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