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Two weekends ago, I had to reset the passwords on my different social networks. My E-mail had somehow become compromised, and my Facebook was briefly used to post spam in a single discussion group, so everything had to be changed, immediately.

I had to go to Facebook; I had to go to Livejournal, that site that started everything; Google+ and my ( Read more... )

I'm a heavy user of Flickr, my account hosting no fewer than 4,827 photos as of this moment. For just over a decade, it has been a site that has worked quite well for me. Then, yesterday, I saw this Wired article appear on my feed.

Just shy of a year ago, Flickr started offering 1,000 gigs of free storage to every user, along with an automatic ( Read more... )

Wired's Julia Greenberg maps the growth, and decline, of Yahoo. That this Internet company, particularly through Flickr, is one I regularly use just makes me nervous.

Silicon Valley is full of giants. But one seems to be slowly disappearing. Yahoo was once an Internet titan, a ruler of the web. Now its future appears to be in question ( Read more... )

The author of The Economist's Prospero blog notes that Anton Corbijn has apparently decided to abandon the practice of photography as an art form. Why? Technology.

Photography as a slow, analogue art-form is dead. Over 200,000 photos are uploaded to Facebook per minute-that’s six billion each month-and there are over 16 billion photos on Instagram ( Read more... )

Wired's Christina Bonnington reports on a camera that, I suppose, is cool but also seems rather redundant.

When I look at my bare beige apartment walls, I lament the passing of personal cameras and Polaroids. If I want real life copies of my precious smartphone photos now, I must use a service like Printstagram. Polaroid’s latest camera attempts ( Read more... )

Since my upgrade to a proper smartphone earlier last month, I've joined Instagram. I find myself really enjoying the experience. Instagram feels like more of a community than the more professional Flickr, I think. The app's editing features are decent--I'm still not sure what I think of filters, so I use them sparingly--and the site lends itself ( Read more... )

I began my online presence on Usenet, but my first participation in formal social networks. began here on Livejournal. I've remained on Livejournal, but since then there have been migrations, of blog content to WordPress (secondarily to Dreamwidth) and of everything to Facebook. There's some specialty networks I take part in at a low level--Flickr ( Read more... )

Yahoo, as any number of news media (like the Financial Post, has bought Tumblr.

Yahoo! Inc. is buying blogging network Tumblr Inc. for about $1.1 billion as Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer seeks to lure users and advertisers with her priciest acquisition to date ( Read more... )

This post at the Economist's Babbage blog regarding the apparent success of Flickr's new app and marketing strategy pleases me, if it's true. As a long-time Flickr user myself, I'm invested in the continuing survival and success of the service.

The previous version of the app was fusty at launch in 2009. It became positively antediluvian with the ( Read more... )