Flickr inviting users to submit their photos for review by Getty Images team
Flickr and Getty Images have been working for sometime enabling photos hosted on Flickr to get featured on Getty Images website.
This program is named Flickr Collection on Getty Images. It now consists of around 60,000 images.
Flickr and Getty Images are now [...]
Flickr finally has face tagging feature!
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has finally added a face tagging feature.
There is no face recognition technology though. You would have to manually tag faces with names.
The feature was made popular by services like Facebook. Picasa and Apple iPhoto have it with recognition capabilities.
Flickr said that [...]
Yfrog can now record videos from webcam
Imageshack has updated their Yfrog service that is designed to be used with Twitter.
Yfrog can now capture video from the user’s webcam for sharing on the Twitter network.
It can also take snapshots using the webcam and broadcast them with a tweet.
The developers said that they [...]
Photobucket to be sold for just $60 million?
TechCrunch has reported that Photobucket could sell for as low as USD 60 million.
Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring it from News Corp.
This company is backed by Disney supported Steamboat Ventures.
News Corp had acquired Photobucket through their MySpace subsidiary in 2007 [...]
Photobucket might be sold by MySpace
TechCrunch has reported that MySpace is close to spinning off their photo sharing service Photobucket.
They had acquired this service back in 2007. The price-tag was around USD 250 million.
Disney-backed Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring Photobucket.
MySpace never made much use of Photobucket. It [...]
Fotolia provides stock photos from inside MS Office!
Fotolia has launched a new feature which adds itself as a new ribbon in MS Office 2007 applications.
Using this ribbon, users can search for and insert stock photos from within Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Users can also buy photos from within the user interface and use that [...]
Polar Rose offers tagging of photos on Flickr and Facebook
If you need a faster way to tag your photos on services like Flickr or Facebook, Polar Rose has the solution for you.
Polar Rose provides a convenient way to tag your photos. You also get the ability to share photos between users and [...]
Snapixel photo sharing service: USD 10 per year for unlimited storage!
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has a new rival in the market.
Snapixel is offering unlimited storage and bandwidth for a bargain price of USD 9.95 per year.
They are also offering a free account that provides 5 GB storage space for your [...]
PicApp enables you to insert legal images with your blog posts
PicApp is a new web service that provides access to free legal images for writers and bloggers.
They are now offering integration with WordPress enabling quick search and insertion of images.
The service offers around 20 million high-quality, legal and free images. These [...]
PhotoSketch is an impressive image montage maker
A group of Chinese students have developed a new product named PhotoSketch.
PhotoSketch is a very high quality image montage maker. The technology behind this product is pretty awesome.
You just start by drawing a rough sketch of what you are looking for.
PhotoSketch then searches for images [...]
