The U.S. government is using social media technologies to reach out to the world, to start a dialogue, to influence foreign policy and to change the perception of the United Stated with the rest of the world.
With that the Department of State has set up Project Dipnote and created a YouTube Channel, a Blog, a Flickr photo album, a Twitter account, an account iTunes for podcast, RSS feeds and just recently launched More»

Labels: Flickr, social media, Twitter, Youtube

Google Picasa is an excellent photo service, though in my view and those of many others it is not as good as Yahoo’s Flickr, which most would say represents the leader and key innovator in the competitive-but-not-lucrative photo sharing, storage, and photo community space.
Part of Picasa was a service called “hello”, which allowed photo commenting in real time and as Matt Ingram notes “hello” was actually a great application.
So why will Google close it down on May 15th?
The likely answer is that it’s a drain on Google’s human resources without presenting a clear More»

Labels: Flickr, photo sharing, picasa

Flickr, Yahoo’s popular and successful photo sharing site, will provide Video sharing by April. Dan Farber reports on his interview with Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield, who along with his wife Caterina Fake and their staff developed Flickr several years ago as a supportive service to their game development and wound up focusing exclusively on the photo sharing capabilities. Yahoo purchased Flickr from them for a reported sum of about 20 million, which by today’s standards may make Flickr one of the greatest Web 2.0 undervaluations in history.
Video sharing in a socially networked environment is definitely More»

Labels: Flickr, Yahoo, Youtube