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How news websites handled graphic images of Empire State Building shooting

Poynter :: When today’s deadly shooting occurred in the heart of Manhattan, thousands of witnesses were nearby and many used cameras to quickly document the scene. Some of the images posted to Twitter, Instagram and Flickr included graphic photos of the shooting victims. News organizations scrambled to curate these images, and then had to make difficult decisions about how to verify and handle them.

A report by Jeff Sonderman, www.poynter.org

Flickr update its Android app: New tabbar, metadata editing & more

The Next Web :: Launching in September 2011, Flickr’s Android app took its time to come to the platform and since then has lacked behind its iPhone counterpart. However, Yahoo has pushed an new update today, overhauling its UI to add a new tabbar, new ways to explore, the editing of metadata and whole host of other new features.

A report by Matt Brian, thenextweb.com

Hope for Flickr? Marissa Mayer creates account, reportedly doubles team

Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch wrote an update, stating "That Flickr Account Wasn’t Marissa Mayer, But She *Is* Currently Looking For A New Head Of Flickr" - so yes staff changes/hire continue but we can't rely on her "new" Flickr account as a signal for hope.

That Flickr Account Wasn't Marissa Mayer, But She *Is* Currently Looking For A New Head Of Flickr tcrn.ch/N1nJwy

— Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) August 16, 2012

TechCrunch :: It looks like Flickr may be getting some much-needed love from its corporate parent Yahoo — Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer just created an account on the photo-sharing site. That may not seem like a big deal, but neither Carol Bartz nor Scott Thompson, Yahoo’s past two CEOs, had a publicly visible Flickr account

A report by Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

iPhone's impact on our visual culture: Benefits and drawbacks

Poynter :: What’s a photographer to do? I could hold onto the past and resurrect my metal, film-fed companions, or their newer, digital counterparts and repeat the mantra that a phone is not a camera. But what’s the point when the vast majority of the active picture taking world has already made that shift to cellphones? (The iPhone 4 is the most popular camera among Flickr users.)

Benefits and drawbacks Keith Jenkins, www.poynter.org

Researchers find online photos are worth much more than 1,000 words

ReadWriteWeb :: The next time you pull out your smartphone and snap a photo of a landmark to upload to Facebook, think about the broader implications: Not only are you sharing your experience with your friends, but you’re contributing a small piece of data that could one day build a model of the world.

Researchers David Crandall of Indiana University and Noah Snavely of Cornell University are developing algorithms to create models of patterns based on the vast troves of photographs uploaded to Facebook, Flickr and other photo-sharing websites each day.

Continue to read Dave Copeland, www.readwriteweb.com

How Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet

Gizmodo :: Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.

Continue to read Mat Honan, gizmodo.com

Newseum looks at social media in new HP New Media Gallery

Washington Post :: The Newseum has selected an interactive exhibition on social media as its first permanent addition at the museum since it opened in 2008. It’s only natural since Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, as well as Google and YouTube have become part of the daily news feed.

Continue to read Jacqueline Trescott, www.washingtonpost.com

Understanding Facebook's success, virality

VentureBeat :: Part I of VB's series: "Virality" - Social media is fundamentally changing marketing, and Facebook understands that. A key driver of the company’s growth is the people-tagging feature in Facebook. Even though Flickr was a better product than Facebook Photos for many years, the virality of people-tagging rocketed Facebook to the top of the photo-sharing pack. People-tagging served both to increase user acquisition and drive repeat usage.

Continue to read Part I, by Rocky Agrawal, venturebeat.com

Flickr photo sharing? - Facebook countersues Yahoo for patent infringement

TechCrunch :: In response to being sued by Yahoo for patent infringement last month, Facebook today filed counter-claims against Yahoo for infringing 10 of its own patents. Facebook detailled the Yahoo features and properties violating its intellectual property. The list includes Yahoo Flickr photo sharing service.

Facebook's statement, details - Continue to read Josh Constine, techcrunch.com

Interactive storytelling: Online Timeline tool available for everyone

Mashable :: A new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web. Timeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University, where Wise teaches. The interactive tool allows users to generate timelines on the web by curating content from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud.

Hat tip: Sarah Marshall, journalism.co.uk

Continue to read Sonia Paul, mashable.com