Gmail’s product manager pushed an article to the official Gmail blog late on Monday to acknowledge the problems that many GMail users faced trying to access their email on Monday afternoon (PT). We’ve identified the source of this issue and fixed it. In addition, as with all issues that affect Gmail and our other services, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Flickr'
CityTV Breaches Creative Commons
May 24th, 2008 1 Comment
This week CityTV was cited by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for failing to uphold the copyright of a man who published photos on Flickr under a Creative Commons license. Though the ruling doesn’t actually compel CityTV to atone for their actions by crediting the photographer (Joel Charlebois, aka uwajedi). When CityTV arrived on the [...]
Tags: Blogging · Creative Commons · Flickr
How to Blog Better with Flickr
April 12th, 2008 7 Comments
Pictures are worth a thousand words, or so the story goes. When writing blog posts or any other kind of content on the Internet images are a big key to making the content more understandable and more interesting. A great way to help manage the images that you use for your site is to make [...]
Flickr Fight Follow-up: The proof
January 26th, 2008 No Comments
After the post I did a couple of days back about FlickrFight using images and not attributing them to the photographers who took and own the images, I thought it might help to actually point to some of the things that FlickrFight is doing. First off, they’re not copying the images, they are getting them [...]
Tags: Development · Flickr · Internet · Open Source · Photography · Programming · Web 2.0
Flickr Fight Doesn’t Attribute Photos
January 22nd, 2008 6 Comments
Pouring through my ever overflowing RSS reader tonight I came across a post on AppScout by Alan Henry about Flickr Fight. This is a site that allows you to search for two terms, and then determines how popular the term is based on the number of hits returned in a Flickr search (Google Fight knockoff??). [...]