Social network influence-measurement service Klout doubled its pleasure by doubling the total number of networks it factors into its ratings system, announcing the addition of Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram, and Last.fm.
Being the community manager of a museum doesn’t mean that you can’t use modern technology to promote your place of employment. Just ask Josh Lawrence of the Penn Museum.
The last time I posted a photo to Flickr was December 2008. However, I noticed a $4.99 app that might be interesting to people who still use Flickr.
The app has a couple of features that appear unique:
- Find geo-tagged photos posted to Flickr by navigating around a world map
- Share phtoos vis e-mail, Twitter or Facebook
- Upload a batch of photos from the iPad to Flickr with automatic resizing. This seems like a good way to move photos from a conventional digital camera through the iPad using Apple’s Digital Camera Connection kit (SD card reader)
- Batch uploads can be queued when offline and then sent up to Flickr after reconnected to the Internet
- Batch editor for photo properties including tags and set membership
- Map-based geo-tagger
The app has a very respectable 4-star average customer rating (out of a possible 5-stars) with 121 users providing ratings in the iTunes App Store.
Yahoo! promised in December that it would try to find a buyer for online bookmarking service Delicious, rather than shutting the service down. The search-engine giant kept its word with the help of YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
Tennis, everyone? The Family Circle Cup tournament added a fully functional mobile site to its social media arsenal, joining its already existing presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
Google is testing a way to make social results a more prominent part in its search results, moving content that previously appeared at the bottom of its results page toward the top and adding friends’ names, where applicable, TechCrunch reported.
AllThingsD added that the social results that previously appeared as Nos. 9 and 10 on the list will be sprinkled throughout for logged-in users, and Google will give more weight to URLs shared as links by friends via social sites such as Twitter and Quora.
Links that appear on the results page will include a line below it with users’ friends’ names — David Cohen shared this — as well as their profile icons, according to TechCrunch.
Google product-management director of search Mike Cassidy told TechCrunch the focus is on blending results, increasing social coverage, and user control, saying, “There’s a lot more sharing than creating going on on the Web.”
Cassidy told TechCrunch Google picks up shared content some 100 million times per day, adding that Flickr and Quora will be added to the mix, joining Twitter, with still other social services to be included. However, when asked about Facebook, he said, “We’re focused on sites where it’s relatively easy to crawl for data.”
What do you get when you combine photo-sharing site Flickr with geolocation social network Foursquare? That’d be FlickSquare, literally, the latest in photo sharing, social network-merging, app developing ingenuity.
Tweet, and ye shall receive: After Charlie O’Donnell of First Round Capital sent a Tweet saying, “Can someone hack a Foursquare app that cc’s my checkin photos to Flickr?,” developer Benny Wong responded with FlickSquare, an app that allows foursquare users who upload photos via the location-based mobile app’s recently introduced photo check-in feature to send those photos to Flickr, TechCrunch reported.
Flicksquare also adds venues checked into by foursquare users and links to check-ins with the photo info, according to TechCrunch, adding that foursquare’s machine tags were also incorporated into the app.
Wong told TechCrunch, “I’m surprised it’s being so well-received. I spent an afternoon throwing this together since I’m in New York and I was snowed in on Sunday.”
The Super Bowl represents America’s pastime in its historic sport but also in the entrenchment of business surrounding the game. Viewed by 98,000,000 viewers in 2009, and with an average 30 second advertising spot costing $3,000,000, the Super Bowl is typically the biggest opportunity for brands to make sweeping statements, and with social media on the rise, we’re seeing more and more brands dive into areas like Facebook and Twitter. This week, NFL.com organized a social media campaign that utilized Twitter and Flickr to centralize social media chatter about the upcoming Super Bowl 44.
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I think many of you will agree that Facebook photo uploader is far from being perfect and many of you have trouble making your photo albums and uploading pictures. In this post you can find some alternative solutions to solve this problem and make photo uploading process less painful.
Here you can find solutions that will cover most of users whatever you work on a PC, Mac or keep your photos online.
Plugin for iPhoto (Mac) that will let you easily export photos to your Facebook account. This plugin have also tag your friends feature.
