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Flickr Photo Editing Live
Flickr has now launched the joint-venture photo-editing feature with Picnik. This allows you to do basic tweaks to the pics in your photo stream. While not Photoshop, the ability is welcome, particularly when you have uploaded your pics on the move, for example from your phone camera.
When you first hit the edit button you are asked to allow Picnik into your account.
After that the editing interface should load. On my Mac’s Firefox it doesn’t, boo! Luckily I also have Safari.
Strangely even in Safari I found I had to click through twice or more to actually get to edit. When it does work though it is a welcome addition!
More info at the Flickr Blog
The Disturbing Side of Flickr
Geekpreneur has a list of disturbing Flickr horror stories. What makes them most disturbing isn’t just the events but how powerless Flickr users are to stop them.
Most of the people on Flickr are a friendly sort. They’re helpful and chatty, and they usually have something nice to say about your pictures. Most of them. Like anywhere though, you do get the odd creep sneaking in.
Since one or two problems on Flickr I have become a lot more guarded about what I do and who I allow as contact.
- Any time I post a picture of children I try to make it friends and family only. Lately just family for certain pictures. There are just too many twisted people out there who have made it clear to me that these pictures are not safe for general consumption, no matter how proud we are of our kids. I can’t do anything about the copies that are on these “individuals” hard disks but can try to stop them getting any more new ones.
- I am now very careful how I label and tag my pictures. I had to stop using the word “mum” because of these slimy people who seem to search for those words for their own perverted uses.
- Now it seems pet and animal fans have to avoid drawing attention from people who think it is funny to submit images of abused or deceased animals.
With people like these out there, could it be we are better off not joining communities like Flickr? I would say we should be aware of the problems, protect our privacy and try to enjoy these communities despite the sickos.
Read the post over here and try not to have nightmares 
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Virgin Mobile Flickr Photo PR Disaster
I just read this fascinating story over at Gillianic Tendencies
What it seems to have happened is that Virgin Mobile, or an advertising agency they hired, decided to save lotsa moola and attempt some good PR (backfiring, obviously) by using Flickr photos with Creative Commons licenses (specifically, the ones that allowed commercial use) in a recent ad campaign. Which, fine, is legal, though, perhaps, cheap-assed. What’s getting people especially crazy over this (and this doesn’t include me, thankfully) is that they’re using these photos without the models’ permissions
It seems some random person has spotted Gillians Flickr photo of a smashed car used on an advertisement. No problem there, it was CC licensed in a way that meant only attribution was necessary. Notification to these Flickr users would have been the polite thing, but ok it’s not a requirement.
The crazy thing though is there are people in these advertisements. Without model releases. Being insulted.
There is more coverage here and over at Flickr.
Tags: flickr, virgin, copyright, cc, license, pr, disaster
Yahoo! Silences Rebekka In Photo Theft Outrage
Thomas Hawk has news of a bizarre decision from Yahoo! over at Flickr regarding the theft of Rebekkas work
So what’s got me pissed today? What’s got me pissed today is that according to Rebekka, Flickr has removed her image from their site. That’s right. Not only did they remove and kill her image and her *non-violent* words of protest, but they censored each and every one of us who commented on her photograph, who offered support to Rebekka, who shared in her frustration by wiping every single one of our comments off the face of the internet forever.
According to Rebekka, Flickr’s explanation?
“Flickr is not a venue for to you harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will send you a warning or
terminate your account.”WTF?!?
So a flickr photographer gets ripped off. Dares to complain about it. Has an outpouring of support on the internet over it and Yahoo decides censorship is the way to handle this? This is the worst I’ve seen from Yahoo yet.
Many of us worried when Yahoo! took over Flickr. It seems some of those worries might be well founded.
Popular photographers like Thomas and Rebekka are people who built Flickr into the community it is (yes community, not just a picture hosting site). Even if they were not known at all, Yahoo! should be helping them not silencing them. To pour injustice on injustice is …. well, regardless of right and wrong, it’s bad for business.
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Flickr Introduces Stats
If you have ever wanted to know more info about your Flickr traffic, who looks at what, and where your views come from, the Flickr has the feature for you!
The stats are updated daily and include referrers from other sites and search engines, including search queries, individual photo views within the site, but nicely it does NOT include your own clicks which could skew results.
You need to be a pro user to get this feature, plus after activating you need to wait a while to actually see some statistics.
Visit Flickr now to activate your stats or read more at the FAQ.