Tag: flickr

  • Social Sustainability and the importance of sharing

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    I wondered for a while what to post on first here after the re-branding of the site and the new focus on Social Sustainability. First I thought about doing a post about blogging seeing as it is one of the most basic building blocks of social media but then I took a step further back…

  • Photo editing within Flickr

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    One bit of functionality which Flickr has long been missing is online photo editing. This was a bit of a gaping hole considering Flickr is a site for online photo sharing and storage! However, Flickr announced yesterday that they have integrated the functionality of online photo editor Picnik into Flickr and it is now possible…

  • Flickr go-slow?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m uploading a couple of images to my Flickr account right now and it is like wading through treacle – they are going really slowly. I’m not sure if there is an issue with my broadband provider of if Flickr is having problems/throttling upload speeds. Anyone else noticed this?

  • Free downloadable wallpaper files

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    Tom Raftery
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    Tired of looking at the same old desktop on your computer? There’s a free gallery of very nice downloadable wallpapers for Windows Vista available here. The photos are from a blogger and prolific Flickr user called Brajeshwar and as well as individual photos, you can also download a .zip wallpaper pack. I’m not quite sure…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    Tom Raftery
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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Do startups use Open Source?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was very much of the impression that startups these days, because they want to keep spending to a minimum, would be more likely to use Open Source tools to develop their applications. The likes of MySQL instead of Microsoft SQL Server, for instance. This view was re-inforced by an interview I did with Salim…

  • Adding images to your blog post

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    Tom Raftery
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    A picture is worth a thousand words or so the old saw goes and it is certainly true that an image can greatly help the look of a blog post. Several people have asked me recently how to add images to blog posts so I thought I’d put up a blog post explaining how I…