To celebrate Oregon’s 150th anniversary of Statehood, Oregon State University (my fine alma matter!) has joined the a Flickr project dubbed “The Commons”. In doing so, OSU is the first university to take part in the project. The contributed OSU images show the Civilian Conservation Corps show what life was like in Oregon’s earliest history…
I’ve long held the belief that location based services on the mobile platform will be very slow in terms of adoption. However, yesterday, Apple announced the new capabilities of iLife ’09. In this update, iPhoto ’09 specifically will include: facial recognition that will allow you to find and categorize your pictures based on the faces…
I’m currently in Seattle for Gnomedex 7.0. For those of you unfamiliar with gnomedex, it’s a blogger/podcaster/rss/social media conference in Seattle hosted by Chris and Ponzi Pirillo (yes that Chris from the old TechTV). I’m very excited to be here and I can’t wait for my first Gnomedex. It’ll be so much fun. To follow…
According to Michael over at TechCrunch, Flickr will soon be adding support to hold videos. A few weeks ago, I was trying to decide whether to buy a Flickr Pro account. Well I buckled down and bought a yearly subscription. I’m very glad I did, even with flickr’s current feature set. I’m in the same…
Flickr has added 7 new languages to their site including French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese, with other languages to follow. On another note – Zooomr just launched Mark III, their new user interface loaded with 250 new features. It’s no secret that Zooomr has a very excited and fanatic user community.Â…
This is very cool. A great wiki site – wetpaint just added support to sign in using OpenID. I’m very excited about more and more sites adding support for this exciting technology. Single sign-on for the web is one of my major beefs with browsing the web. It’s not a major site like digg or…
I’m very anxious to try out Zooomr’s new user interface they’re calling Mark III. I’ve been going back and forth on whether to sign up for Flickr Pro and I’d love to see if Zooomr is a viable alternative. Unfortunately, I can’t log in. I’m trying to use OpenID and I get the following error:…