TikTok releases Photo Mode and 7 new editing tools
The new editing and photo tools give creators more freedom over the content they post. But the updates aren't quite original.
Topic: Image sharing
Flickr (Finally) Has An Android App
It sure took a long time, but Flickr has finally launched its first Android app. Flickr has had an iPhone app for more than two years. The new Android app appears to offer several features not available on the iPhone version — including filters to help edit photos before publishing, and additional sharing options. The […]
Here’s What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful
I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They’ll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who’ve scattered our photo uploads across TwitPic, yFrog, Mobypicture and other photo services. But I’m also hoping that the product Twitter launched yesterday is a shell of what it’ll […]
Twitter User Galleries Start Rolling Out Today
Twitter has begun rolling out User Galleries, a new feature that should make the process of searching (and finding) images shared on Twitter a lot easier. The galleries will show images — but not videos — that are shared on Twitter via many of the major photo upload/sharing tools, such as TwitPic, yFrog, Instagram and […]
Up Close With Twitter’s New Photo Sharing Feature
Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it would be rolling out its own photo sharing service. I found this enabled for my own account last week and today got a formal message about it. So, I thought a close look at how it works might be useful. Use The Camera Icon For Photo Sharing Right […]
Google Maps Adds Photo Albums
The experience of viewing place photos in Google Maps got a little easier this week. Google has announced that it’s now showing certain place images in a photo album. The album pops above the place as an overlay — similar to what you’ve probably experienced before via the Lightbox javascript application. The photo albums only […]
Collecta Upgrades Video, Image Results
Collecta has announced improvements to its handling of images and video in real-time search results. The company says it’s now including video feeds from 12seconds, Qik, and uStream — three popular video sharing services. On the image side, Collecta says it has “enhanced” how it handles photos posted to TwitPic and yFrog, two of the […]
Yahoo Buys Xoopit To Advance “Smarter Inbox” Strategy
The web’s first (and some might still argue only) “killer app,” email, was invented roughly 35 years ago. And everyone seems to have ideas on how to bring it into the 21st Century. Google Wave is aiming to be an email replacement of sorts: a real-time, social communication and collaboration platform. Yahoo, for its part, […]
How To Use Images Successfully On Social Media Sites
Images are one of the most popular forms of social media news content for a variety of reasons. This form of media is easily consumed, transfers information quickly, usually requires less reading and can project a great deal of information (many times more so than text). People are busy and not willing to give away […]
Yahoo Upgrades Flickr Mobile; Google Upgrades Picasa
Photo search took a couple steps forward today with announcements from both Yahoo and Google. The news from Yahoo is a mobile makeover of its Flickr photo sharing site, while Google announced a variety of improvements to its Picasa photo service. Here’s a look at the two announcements:
Flickr Launches Stats: Detailed Overview
Flickr just announced the launch of Flickr Stats for Flickr Pro accounts. Who doesn’t love stats? Now having them on my Flickr account makes me incredibly happy. Here is a detailed look at what Flickr Stats has to offer on the day it launched.
Flickr’s Two Billionth Picture
See the image above? You are looking at the two-billionth picture uploaded to Flickr. It was taken at Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney. Holy moly! from the Flickr blog confirms that this picture, is indeed, the two-billionth image uploaded to Flickr. It is a picture of a gum tree.
Digg Those Pics & Only Those Pics At Digpicz.com
Every wanted to see the highest rated images over at Digg? Digpicz.com has launched to serve that purpose as the “unofficial Digg Picture Browser,” commentsStan Schroeder. Digpicz uses the Digg API to aggregate images from Digg and place them in one location. Digg has sections for news, video, and podcasts, but it does not have […]
Flickr Now Second Most Popular Photo Site
LeeAnn Prescott of Hitwise posted data showing that Flickr has surged to the number two photo site spot, controlling over 6% of the market share in the US. Photobucket still leads the pack with a comfortable 43.5% share. But in the past four weeks, Flickr’s traffic grew 38%.
Goodbye Yahoo Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More
TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because […]
Google’s Picasa Add Photo Search & Other Features
The Google blog announced that Picasa, Google’s photo sharing application, now enables you to search photos. You can search your own or your friends’ public albums captions, album titles, and album descriptions. Picasa also added the ability to print your pictures with Shutterfly or PhotoWorks and a feature to enable you to upload your videos […]