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Flickr Caved in to Protesters Donut Demands
Here's the lowdown: recently, Flickr rolled out a new video feature that allows pro members to upload 90 second videos to their pages. This move sparked a heap of "No Video on Flickr" protest groups demanding that Flickr disassemble the feature in fear that the beloved site would become a Jr. YouTube. But knowing nerds all too well, where there are protestors, there will be mockery.
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Flickr Members Can Now Upload and Share Videos
What was once restricted to Flickr Pro users, has now been extended to all Flickr members — uploading video content!
What Pro members will be able to do though, is upload high-definition videos and still have unlimited uploads for videos 90 seconds or less.
For all of you who already use Flickr as your main online photo management site, this will make sharing much easier since everything will be in one spot!
Do You Text During Concerts or Other Shows?
The other night, I went to a concert with a few of my friends. After the initial bag check and ticket scan from security, we saw large signs at the entrance to the venue reading, "The artists ask that you set your phones to vibrate and refrain from texting and other cell phone use during the performance." While I'm used to signs asking concert-goers not to take photos or videos during the show, this was the first ban on texts or cell phone use I'd seen during a concert.
Mii Madness: The Office Cast
My new favorite flickr user has created a hilarious collection of "Celebrimiis" of the cast of NBC's The Office. For those of you that have not been initiated into the Nintendo Wii world yet, Miis are customizable player characters that you can dress and model after yourself, the girl next door and in this case, the cast of The Office. You then play the Wii games as the character and great fun ensues.
Tech Dating 101: To Upload, Tag, Untag, or Delete?
Posting photos and videos online is more popular than ever thanks to mobile upload technologies to sites like Facebook and Flickr. And along with uploading comes tagging, keywords, titles and captions. I use tags and keywords on photos, so I can find them easily, but it's also a pretty public way of showing the world, "Hey!
What Video-Sharing Website Do You Use Most Often?
Yesterday, MSN announced that it was shutting down its video-sharing property, Soapbox.
Though I didn't use Soapbox myself, I'm sure its users are both bummed and hunting for a different video-uploading and sharing website.
Which brings me to my question — of all the sharing sites out there, what do you use?
Turn Your Pics Into a Music Video With Animoto
I love iPhoto's slideshow feature, but if you aren't a Mac fan (or even if you are), and want a fresh, simple, and quick way to put some music to your pics, check out Animoto.
Animoto is different from a regular slideshow, since the program does all the work for you. It analyzes your photos you upload (via your computer, Flickr, or another photo-sharing website) and your music choice, then creates a custom slideshow (or more appropriately, music video) for your pics.
Gmail Labs Adds Previews For Yelp, Picasa, YouTube, Flickr
Imagine if it wasn't necessary to click a link to view a photo album or YouTube video? Now if you go into your Gmail Labs under Settings and enable YouTube videos (you can watch the entire clip right from your inbox), Flickr and Picasa preview, and Yelp review preview, you can see everything inside your mail window. Yes, Gmail will automatically detect links from various sites and show you previews right from your email message.
Geeks We Love: Doug Aamoth of CrunchGear
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, we're kicking off our third annual Geeks We Love interview series to showcase some of the most talented and loved tech writers in the industry. And who better to get things under way, than the charming Doug Aamoth, who spends most of his days reviewing high-tech gadget goods for CrunchGear? I had the pleasure of meeting Doug at the HTC Touch Diamond Event in London last year, and found him to be very much the way he comes across in his work — passionate and knowledgeable about technology, and a really great guy with an addictive sense of humor.
Models Take to the Streets of Manhattan With Sony Vaios
Here's one way to draw attention to a product. Take a group of hired models and dancers, arm them with Sony's clutch-sized Vaios — like the P Series Lifestyle PC — dress them in the clothes of emerging designers, parade them all around Manhattan, and what do you get? A brilliant marketing campaign by Sony.
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