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Flickr Clouds from Getty Images

News from The Flickr Collection:

Getty Images added a Flickr photo clouds feature, which lets users visually group images that catch their eye.

These new image clouds are fully searchable in three different ways: via a particular username, keyword or cloud topic.

For example, a user looking for inspiration around “winter” can either review all image clouds that contain an image with the keyword “winter,” or simply review image clouds with “winter” in the cloud title, regardless of the image keywords.

Users can also share their clouds with the community, download a desktop widget and screensaver, export their clouds to Facebook, view other users’ clouds, mark favorites and follow fellow users.

Getty Images and Flickr launch the Flickr Collection

Quickly:

• The details.
• How it looks on the front page.
• The Flickr Collection itself.
• Below the price range for a specific image:

Yet the split Getty/photographer remains unclear for the moment. Jason Cincaid once wrote: "There is no set payout structure - each selected participant in the program will need to negotiate their own deal with Getty".

Denise Waggoner writes: "The creative and photo research teams at Getty Images from all over the world (I’m talking China, Brazil, the US, UK and beyond) have spent the last several months exploring ... all Flickr has to offer ... there are three BILLION pictures on Flickr and we are literally at the tip of 'ye olde iceberg.' We’re starting small and then we’ll continue our journey and add thousands of new pictures a month".

Related:

• Flickr + Getty Images: An old story* gets new blood
  (July 9, 2008)

QuickLinks For 2008-10-31

• Getty: Flickr photo fees still not decided:
  Photographers whose Flickr pictures are to be used by Getty Images still don´t know how much they will get paid. Nearly four months on, it is not yet clear whether amateurs will get paid the same as a professional for their images.
  A Getty spokeswoman told us that the amount amateurs will get paid will be decided when images are uploaded to the Getty website early next year.
  When asked whether the photographer will be given details of their prospective fee, before or after their photos appear on the Getty website, the spokeswoman added: "Getty will work directly with Flickr members who are invited to be part of the Flickr collection to determine the specifics of each business relationship, and members will have direct connections with representatives at Getty."
  Amateur photographer/Chris Cheesman (abbreviated).

Flickr + Getty Images: An old story* gets new blood

• Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It (NYT Blog):
  Getty will make payments to Flickr, but detailed terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Mr. Klein said that financially the deal will be immaterial for both Yahoo and Getty Images. Over time, however, thousands of Flickr photographers may benefit.
  Getty also runs a site called iStockPhoto, where amateurs contribute photos that the company markets at lower rates. The photos on Flickr are of sufficent quality to demand higher prices, Mr. Klein said.

QuickLinks For 2007-11-12

• PhotoShelter Collection online:
  The newly launched PhotoShelter Collection enables photographers of all levels to benefit from a worldwide image-selling marketplace that returns commercial and creative independence back into the hands of the artist. For commercial photo buyers, The PhotoShelter Collection aims to offer the freshest editorialized collection of imagery online.
  More details about PhotoShelter´s "Rating System".
  Look also at PhotoShelter´s new "The Contemporary Collection".

• Microsoft Wants To Create The Next Flickr:
  The feature team is building a next-generation photo and video sharing service that will compete with flickr, smugmug and other photo web solutions today.
  Duncan Riley/TechCrunch. - Microsoft is at the forefront of innovation again.
  Related:
  
  • Microsoft is readying its Flickr competitor (Harrison Hoffman)

 

Stewart Butterfield joins Zooomr to leave Flickr

The web is full of rumors what happened during Yahoo´s executives monster meeting.

Owen Thomas/Valleywag writes today:

At least one key Yahoo executive was unswayed by Friday´s revival meeting featuring Steve Jobs: Stewart Butterfield, the founder and general manager. Butterfield, Valleywag has learned, plans to leave to, well, spend more time with his family. Yahoo, too, might have a claim on Butterfield´s devotion, in the midst of a precarious revamp. But Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, while a big supporter of Flickr himself, is not nearly as cute. No word on whether Butterfield´s wife, Caterina Fake, now a high-ranking Yahoo executive, plans any move, or who will replace Butterfield at Flickr.

Related:

• Flickr Founders Fake And Butterfield Named Among 100 Most Influential People In The World (May 06, 2006)

(Photo: DAVID WALDORF FOR TIME)

QuickLinks For 2007-10-01

• Use My Photo? Not Without Permission:
  Much more than a virtual attic for old photographs, Flickr has flourished as a gathering point for friends and family who want to keep in touch with one another’s lives. Simultaneously Flickr has become a global clearinghouse for images; at last count, it had more than a billion of them.
  There are many accusations of people misusing Flickr photographs.
  
  In the world of creative works, photography has always been in a category alone. The camera was seen as a "soul stealer" in its infancy, and the fact that a photo was a copy of reality intrigued theorists like Susan Sontag, who wrote presciently in "On Photography" (1977) about the attraction to photos felt by ad directors.
  NYT/Noam Cohen in detail on the pitfalls of using Flickr images without model releases, Creative Commons named in a lawsuit, and four illustrating examples.
  Related:
  
  • Virgin sued for using teen´s photo (Sept. 21, 2007) (thx EN)

 

Grumpy today

... but only in this photo and not in the interview the BBC conducted with Stewart Butterfield, published yesterday (nearly 30 minutes).

Stewart talks "about his success, the future of the internet, and how web 2.0 sites like Flickr, YouTube and Facebook are changing our lives."

Maybe he just got tired to respond to 2.0 questions like "Let´s talk about the next generation then, do you think their brains are different from ours?"

Flickr + Economist on photopreneur

Many sources track down where and how intensively microstock and also Flickr photos are published on websites and, more valuable for certain reasons, in print publications.

The relatively new photopreneur blog (general announcement about their future), quoted here earlier when Adam Brotman of SnapVillage was interviewed, runs today an article on "Economist Website Turns To Flickr As Photo Source" and quotes Graham Douglas, Economist.com' s Head of Graphics:

Flickr images on PictureSandbox up and running again

"In this town, luck can change that quickly".