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Flickr and HP’s Snapfish Team on Photo Printing

Yahoo has announced that its popular Flickr photo sharing service is partnering with Hewlett-Packard’s Snapfish to offering an expanded range of photo printing and gift services. The deal not only provides new ways for Flickr users to organize, transfer, and and print their photo, but expands photo printing services to international users, since Snapfish’s photo printing services are available in 22 countries.

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“At Flickr, it’s important that all our members across the globe have the ability to bring their images to life through printing and sharing,” said Flckr general manager Douglas Alexander, in a statement. “We’re excited to partner with Snapfish in this effort, as we feel the company provides the value and choice we know our members expect when it comes to their photos.”

Flickr Inks Deal with Getty Images

Flickr Inks Deal with Getty Images

A new deal between photo-sharing site Flickr and major photo syndicator Getty Images could do a lot for the pockets for Flickr users.

Under the deal, the Getty Images site will have a page for Flickr users. Those photos will be available for sale to publications, and the money will go to the Flickr user.

Getty will select the Flickr users, but expects to have several thousand images available over the coming months.
Flickr general manager Kakul Srivastava said:

"This partnership is testimony to the Flickr community of photographers who have influenced the aesthetics of photography with authentic, creative and cutting-edge images which will now be available to Getty Images’ customers around the world."

Flickr Users Protest Video Sharing

Flickr Users Protest Video Sharing

As the saying goes, “Sometimes less is more.” And in the case of adding video to Flickr, many of the site’s users seem to believe it. In the three days since Flickr added video sharing on Tuesday, users have banded together to protest the new capabilities, claiming that video doesn’t belong on Flickr and that it will detract from the community.

“We all joined Flickr because of it’s dedication to photography and photographers, and we want Flickr to remain true to this dedication,” says one group’s petition. “It is our request that this feature and addition to Flickr be removed.”

Flickr Adopts Video Sharing

Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing site expanded its online media palette on Tuesday by adding video-sharing capabilities. The new feature will allow users to upload the kind of short clips usually taken with digital still cameras, and store them right alongside the accompanying photos.

A recent survey commissioned by Yahoo showed that many digital camera users were shooting short videos, but not necessarily sharing them, leaving the door open for Flickr to add that functionality. The survey found that 40 percent of digital camera users between 18 and 44 were using the devices to capture video clips, but more than half only used their PC screens to play them for friends, and 20 percent never shared them at all.

Flickr Gets Photo Editing

Flickr Gets Photo Editing

Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr has announced a new partnership with Picnik.com to integrate Picnik’s online photo editing tools directly into Flickr. The new features will enable Flickr users to crop, resize, and adjust exposure on their uploaded images, along with removing red-eye and applying special effects to images. Although the photo editing tools don’t really compete with similar features in professional image editing applications, they will be available for free to all Flickr users, which can be incredibly handy for tweaking photos when users don’t have access to a desktop photo editing application.

Get Around in Flickr Places

Get Around in Flickr Places

Photo sharing site Flickr is beginning to leverage its milions-deep collection of geotagged photos submitted by users, unveiling a new feature called Places. Places will not only enable site visitors to search for photos based on place names, but also enable them to locate Flickr photos using a zoom-able global map. Users can browse photos geographically, peek at local “hot spots” of Flickr contributions, and search by more than 100,000 place names to find images of interesting places. Images can also be organized by theme. Flickr says it will be adding three to five thousand new “Places” each week, collecting together regional information like weather and maps.

Put Flickr on Your Phone With netomat

New York’s netomat, Inc. has optimized its free netomat hub service for Flickr photo streams, enabling users to receive updates to Flickr photosets on their mobile phones with both images and text. netomat’s hubs attempt to integrate services between mobile phones and PCs, including text messaging with presence indicators, RSS syndication, trusted social networking, alerts, and photo storage.

Via a netomat hub, new content posted to a Flickr group is automatically resized for mobile phones and transmitted to netomat subscribers, complete with any associated text. The new service also enables netomat subscribers to invite friends to their hub to chat about the images.

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