Influx

The computer printer has to be one of the dullest and least interesting devices there is. People have nothing, but resentment for their printers because they seem to do the least interesting work accompanied, by nothing but problems. They are poorly made from ill-fitting plastic components, they...

"Flickr is currently receiving 60 uploaded photos a second, roughly 10 times the number of people born on Earth per second."Source: FlickrPosted by Ed Cotton

Everything is going crazy over at Yahoo as the brightest and the best leave the ship.(Grant seems to have all the details and more in his post). Yahoo was a brand that shone bright at the earliest part of the internet revolution, but it failed to keep pace with the times. However, the recent years...

Students at LIAFA University in Paris partnered with a team at Orange Labs to do some deep dive investigating into the Flickr site using some data from 2006 and produced this paper. They came up with some interesting findings.- 20% of users account for 82% of all photos- Pro users make up just 3.7%...

This is an intersting mash-up between a Dutch cable network and Flickr. The cable channel is hosting a DJ set by Dave Clarke and using Flickr viewers can search for images to add visuals to the experience. Interesting to see how conventional TV networks can bring more interactivity to their users...

No 21 on Influx's predictions for 2007 was the Flickr's "People's Photography Show" in Central Park. They are doing something close to this at the weekend in a community event called 24 Hours of Flickr. Here's what it is:1. On May 5th Flickr is asking its community to chronicle its day in...

Bill Tancer of Hitwise recently presented some interesting stats on participation levels on Web 2.0 sites, his research found that only .16% of all YouTube visits were to upload video and only 0.2% of Flickr visits were to upload photographs. As we are in the “Participation Age” there...