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DPReview bought by Amazon.com!
Amazon has only gone and bought dpreview.com
We’re proud and excited to announce that Dpreview has been acquired by the worlds leading online retailer, Amazon.com.
They must have really been cooking with those digital camera affiliate links!
Seriously, congrats to Phil and the guys over there, fantastic news.
Nested Sets Coming To Flickr
I have long wanted to organise my Flickr sets into some sort of hierarchy. It seems Flickr have heard the transatlantic whining and set about giving us the ability to put sets in sets.
Thomas Hawk quotes Stewart Butterfield:
“We’re doing the final testing and design tweaks now
” and “You’ll be able to go five levels deep (beyond that seemed a little silly, but we’ll see how people end up using it).” .
I’m sure this will be a much used (and abused) feature. It got me thinking though how cool it would be to have much more control of the layout.
Right now your flickr page is organised pretty much chronologically as a stream. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to perhaps put up a welcome message? Highlight your best stuff as well as your recent stuff? Your top tags? When a visitor arrives at the moment there is nothing to orient them, unless your recent stuff is good they are unlikely to go much deeper.
I realise the way most people find my flickr photos is through my blogs or through flickr groups, but I think more people would promote their Flickr URL if they mutated into something more useful.
Flickr Rethinks Contact Limit
Thomas Hawk has reported that Flickr has rethought the cap on Flickr contacts. Now reciprocal contacts will not be counted towards the limit, allowing people to amass larger numbers of contacts.
More info at Thomas’ blog post.
Flickr Losing Lustr
Flickr have decided to downgrade their service. First downgrade won’t affect most of us, I don’t know many people who will be too upset with this one:
the new maximum number of contacts is 3,000 contacts (good luck with that), and each photo on Flickr can have a maximum of 75 tags.
It’s the second that has me upset:
On March 15th, 2007 we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.
I hate hate HATE Yahoo! logins. I don’t use Yahoo! services, any of them, despite my ISP being affiliated with them. My hope is that Flickr have a change of heart, or at least don’t further break their up to now excellent service with further backward “improvements” otherwise when my paid membership is used up I will be one of the many leaving. Restricting contacts etc, that just confirms their madness, but inflicting the sucky Yahoo! user account (and all that entails) just … annoys, irritates, blows.
It’s not the end of the world, certainly not the apocalypse you would think reading the forums, and believe me I feel for the Flickr dudes and dudettes who are taking the flak right now for this.
Thomas Hawk has done a great job rounding up the members reactions.
Flickr needs to reverse the asinine decisions made today to force people to merge their accounts with Yahoo and to place new limits on your contacts and tags.
Flickr ups space limits, Christmas Easter Egg
Flickr has dropped an early Christmas present, upping accounts space limits
unlimited uploads — the two gigabyte monthly limit is no more (yep, pro users have no limits on how many photos they can upload)! At the same time, we’ve upped the limit for free account members as well, from 20MB per month up to 100MB (yep, five times more)!
I’m sure this will come in very handy and is a welcome improvement. While most people I know on the basic accounts do not really reach their account limits very often it can be frustrating the one time they need more. This will make the chance of this happening even more rare.
Much more fun is the Christmas Easter Egg (if there is such a thing!), add a note to a photograph in your Flickr stream saying “ho ho ho hat” or “ho ho ho beard” for a festive treat.
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JPG Magazine Imploding?
Recall JPG magazine, the glossy magazine that took contributions from Flickr users? It seems there has been a corporate falling-out and Derek and Heather (the founders) are leaving …Derek tells his story
It’s a great shame, the magazine had a lot going for it. Probably still does. But you have to think a magazine founded on community support is at the mercy of that community. A community that loves Derek and Heather …