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Flickr, Behance, Vimeo and YouTube Add New Pinterest Attribution Tool
One thing Pinterest hasn’t necessarily done well is link the content its users “pin” with the people who originally created it. That has angered copyright holders and dampened the service’s potential...
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The Reinvention of Bitly: A Social Bookmarking Site for Mainstream Users
Over the past four years, Bitly has become an important online utility, helping people save, shorten, share and track 80 million new links per day. But Bitly wants to be more than a souped-up link...
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos Among Backers Pumping $6M Into Photo-Editing Start-Up Aviary
Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions and other strategic investors have poured another $6 million into Aviary, a photo-editing tools company. Aviary said it is used regularly by eight million people across...
View ArticleCaterina Fake's Pinwheel Is Now Called Findery, After Trademark Dispute
Pinwheel, the geotagged memory service from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, is now called Findery. That’s after a photo-sharing start-up called Pinweel got a preliminary injunction for trademark...
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After #Eastwooding Exits, Dems Take Their Seat at the Social Table
Last week’s Republican Convention provided perhaps the most entertaining — albeit, not on purpose — political social meme on the Web, with Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood’s odd performance with an...
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What Will Marissa Do?: Mayer Set to Reveal Her Strategy to Troops This Week...
On Friday, I began a series about the various and sundry things new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was up to at the Silicon Valley Internet giant. First up was a look at how she is zeroing in on improving...
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A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos
Nowadays, people are storing a lot of personal photos on a variety of social networks. They capture photos with their smartphone cameras, instantly share them with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and...
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Empty New York
There’s not a lot of evidence of Hurricane Sandy in New York City just yet — though if you look hard enough, you’ll see some disturbing signs. The storm is supposed to start hitting the city overnight,...
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After Declaring It the Future of Yahoo, CEO Mayer Appoints IntoNow's Cahan to...
Adam Cahan A very important management shift at Yahoo got a bit lost in last week’s news of CEO Marissa Mayer’s first acquisition, a small mobile start-up called Stamped. That would be the appointment...
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YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video -- And Puts It Back Up Again
Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as a weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message...
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Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into):...
Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. Not to cranky me, of course, but to the much more amenable...
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Flickr Jumps Into Mobile Photo Fray With New Insta-Hip Filters
The tech world has gone bonkers over photo filters. Now add Flickr to the mix. The Yahoo-owned photo service, as part of renewed efforts toward mobile, has just updated its app for iPhone and iPod...
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As Facebook and Twitter Feud Over Photos, Yahoo Plays Well With Others
After years of neglect, Yahoo launched a majorly revamped version of the Flickr app for iOS on Wednesday morning, adding yet another entrant to the growing ranks of photo-sharing apps. But this effort...
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Along With Flickr, Mail and Homepage, Yahoo's Board Will Also Get a Refresh...
In the last week, Yahoo has redone its powerful Yahoo Mail, refreshed its Flickr photo-sharing service and is also set to release a spanking new homepage design. It’s part of a series of changes made...
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Happy Holidays, Instagram! Here, Have a Class-Action Lawsuit.
’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Valley, not a creature was stirring — except for Lucy Funes and her attorneys, who are proposing a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, the...
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Yahoo's Mayer Hoping What Happens With Big Advertisers at CES Doesn't Stay in...
So far in the six-month reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, there has been a pile of attention paid to the flashy cultural changes (free food!), much-needed rehauls of key mainstays (Flickr, Yahoo!...
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Yahoo's New "Homerun" Homepage Is Rolling Out More Widely Across Several...
Yahoo appears to be rolling out the newest version of the redesign of its homepage even more extensively across several major browsers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. As...
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Mayer's 10X Challenge: Yahoo's Homepage, Mail and Search Traffic Show...
This week in Las Vegas, the new management team running Yahoo — including CEO Marissa Mayer — is at International CES to schmooze with big advertisers and convince them that Yahoo is the place to put...
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Confirmed: Yahoo Connections SVP Shashi Seth Is Out
According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo Connections SVP Shashi Seth is leaving the company. CEO Marissa Mayer sent an email to staff earlier today saying the last day for one of...
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Oh, Snap! Flickr Takes on Instagram.
You probably know someone who does it. I’m talking about the friend who can’t start dinner without taking a picture of it first. Or the family member agonizing over which Instagram filter to use before...
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