louisgray.com
In the two weeks following Robert Scoble's official announcement that he was to be joining Rackspace, Inc. and embarking on a new project called Building 43, the company's stock has jumped by more than 30 percent, rising at a pace three times that of the NASDAQ, as the broader market tries to recover from a horrific year. A (Read More)
MichaelFruchter.com
It seems that for many, this thing or shall I say buzzword we call social media has become strictly a numbers game. He who has the most followers wins. We are seeing this time and time again, on Twitter, Facebook and so forth. It’s at a point where it’s out of control, I feel. The true value of social media or conversation (Read More)
PhotographyVoter / Published News
Images posted to photo-sharing sites can be sold without photographer's consent following a change in the site owners terms and conditions.4 Vote(s). (Read More)
Kyle's shared items in Google Reader
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Back in May, Google announced their plans to launch Friend Connect. Friend Connect allows website owners to incorporate social aspects and elements onto their sites. It's powered by OpenSocial, which was developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other (Read More)
Smashing Magazine
RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, we’ll cover in this post (Read More)
Submitted by Justinkorn:
Throughout the year I’ve seen many blogs and websites on photography come and go. This list, while not completely comprehensive, is comprised of the websites and blogs that have made it into and stayed in my feed reader or that I regularly visited throughout the year.The Criteria: * entertaining * informative * edu (Read More)
ProBlogger
This morning I spent a little time doing some analysis (using Google Analytics) of the traffic coming into my main blog - Digital Photography School.My analysis was stimulated by a question from a reader who in response to last week’s two posts examining the place of Digg and Social Bookmarkingin a bloggers priorities (Read More)
delicious.com/tag/photography
Today I’m in San Francisco giving a lecture to the Society for Photographic Education. After presenting my pictures and the story of how I became a photographer, I’ll likely be asked if I have any advice for young photographers. Instead of giving just my two cents, I thought it would be cool if I could also offer some advic (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses - fireside chats for the web generation - on YouTube.The first address will appear on Change.gov this Saturday, after it airs in audio. An Obama spokesperson says tha (Read More)
sukhalolupan.blogspot.com
By Andrew Gibson and Smashing Editorial TeamLow light levels make night photography a challenging yet rewarding subject. The best results require specialized equipment, like SLR cameras, tripods, cable releases and flashguns. After sunset, the everyday world is magically transformed, and city buildings, fireworks, thunderst (Read More)
ProBlogger
Two weeks ago I was seeing 40 new email subscribers per day to my photography blog email newsletter. This week I’ve been averaging over 350 new subscribers a day. In this post I’ll share the story of how I did it.In this months ProBlogger Newsletter I gave subscribers some inside information on how I’ve in (Read More)
Lifehacker
New image recognition webapp ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time) is a on a mission to assign relevant tags to digital images based on their content, and wants you to help it learn. While digital image recognition has come a long way in recent years, it's still got a long way to go, and ALIPR's go (Read More)