Earlier this year we saw the launch of two search engines -- Stolen Camera Finder and GadgetTrak Serial Search -- that help find stolen cameras by searching photos on the web for the serial numbers. The idea is neat, but no one knew whether it would actually help recover stolen gear or not. Turns out it does work.
Emotional Breakdown is a cool new web app that attempts to gauge the …
Twitter, Google+, and Facebook are one step closer to becoming clones of each other (at least when it comes to photo sharing) -- Twitter has rolled out photo galleries that display the 100 most recent images Tweeted by users in chronological order.
Here’s a nifty visual guide to all the keyboard shortcuts you have access to when viewing a photograph on …
The photo sharing feature on Twitter that we first reported on a couple months ago is now …
Alexa's traffic reports seem to show that photo sharing service 500px is growing like a weed. The site has received quite a bit of coverage as of late.
There has been a lot of discussion regarding social media sites and their scary-sounding terms of services that always …
Millions of people know Instagram as a fun way to share photographs, but …
Want to play role in the legendary agency Magnum Photos? Well, now you can as a "Magnum Tagger". The cooperative is having a tough time keeping their large archive of historical photographs organized and easily searchable. Of the 500,000 images they've uploaded to the web, about 200,000 have little or no associated metadata.
Photorank.me is a new web app that attempts to calculate how influential you …
Google has added EXIF data to …
You can now create instant photo books with your favorite Instagram (AKA …
A little update to the recent brouhaha over Google+’s Terms of Service: …
Did you know that earlier this year YouTube added a free image stabilization tool to its video editor? It lets you smooth out the jitter in your videos without having to shell out dough for an expensive rig or software solution. The downside is that the stabilization makes your video look like it was shot by a robot.
Here’s a short video that gives a small glimpse into how Google’s stealthy Photovine photo-sharing app works.
If you're not convinced that Google is jumping into the photo-sharing pool head first, get this: the company has not one, but two stealthy photo sharing apps in private beta. Besides the Pool Party app that came to light at the beginning of the month, the rumored Photovine service has now materialized into a website -- well, a landing page, at least.
Last year Scott Bourne caused some commotion among photo-enthusiasts by claiming that Twitter's ToS forced photographers to give up rights to photos shared through the service. After Google launched their new Google+ social network, Bourne again wrote a very similar post warning his readers about the ToS. We weren't planning on weighing in, but seeing that the FUD has spread to our comments and even The Washington Post, we'd like to clear some of it away for our readers.
For photo enthusiasts, Google’s new Google+ social network is something like Flickr mixed with Facebook. It has the social …
Mashable is reporting that Google will be rebranding …
One of the gripes some people have with Flickr is that it doesn't offer an easy way to download your complete collection of photos if you ever want to move your images elsewhere (though, hopefully you're not using it as your only backup).
OpenPhoto is a new “open” alternative to Flickr being built by programmer Jaisen …
An integral part of being a respectable artist is to have your artist statement be so confusing …
Photographer Jamie Beck has done quite a bit lately to popularize the “ …
In March 2011 we reported that an iPhone photo sharing app called Color had raised a whopping $41 million in funding before it had even launched. Sequoia Capital, one of the most prominent VC firms in Silicon Valley, invested more money in Color than they had originally invested in Google. Now, just three short months later, Color is still struggling to find users while its less-funded competitors are leaving it in the dust.
Last week we featured Shopobot, a new website that can show you the price history of camera …
Even though it seems like the photo sharing market is saturated with services competing for the world's photos, the incredible growth of many young companies (e.g. Instagram) shows that there's still plenty of untapped areas for growth, with mobile sharing being one of the big ones at the moment. A trademark for "Photovine" filed by Google earlier this month seems to suggest that the search giant is looking to expand beyond Picasa.
You’ve probably seen countless photographs already of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan back in March, but …
Shopobot is a new shopping tool that helps buyers determine the best price …
Flickr is a popular method of sharing photos, but the service doesn’t provide any easy way to download them …
Bad news for TinEye but good news for photographers: Google is adding …
Textify.it is a neat little web and …
Need some inspiration? The “Endless Interestingness” page by designers Mark Barcinski and Adrien …
Confused about what a certain acronym means when it comes to Nikon’s line of Nikkor lenses? There’s a helpful …
DEAR PHOTOGRAPH is a neat photo project by Taylor Jones that collects pictures of pictures from the past in the present. These are images that show old photos held up and aligned to the present day location, offering a glimpse into what once was.
Twitter has just announced that they will be launching their own photo-sharing service that will let you attach photographs directly to Tweets, competing with services like TwitPic. Rather than host the images themselves using their own servers or Amazon's S3 storage, they've decided to partner with photo-sharing giant Photobucket. It'll be interesting to see whether photographers feel more comfortable sharing their images on Twitter now that the functionality will be baked into the service itself, especially after recent brouhahas involving third party services.
One of the big complaints users (or ex-users) have against Flickr is that its account deletion process is …
A camera’s sensor size is a very good predictor of how good its image quality is, but understanding and …
Since we first covered its launch back in October 2010, Instagram …
If you’re a coffee lover (or addict), adbeus is a photoblog that you’ll …
There have been a number of stories lately reporting that a large number of Flickr users are leaving the site for new photo-sharing services that are cropping up, including Instagram and 500px. Earlier his week, a designer at Flickr named Timoni West wrote a post on her blog that publicly criticized Flickr's usability. More specifically, she calls the "Your contacts" page (the one that shows your contacts' photos) the "most important page on Flickr", pointing out the problems with the page and offering redesign ideas that would address them.
If you have camera gear you’d like to sell, Amazon will now take it off your hands in exchange …
If you’re both a photography lover and a Mac user (there’s a lot of you out there, right?), computer …
Since launching in 2008, TwitPic has been at the center of quite a few copyright controversies and legal battles, especially when disasters strike and Twitter users are able to publish photos of things that are happening well before major news outlets. Back in early 2010 photographer Daniel Morel had an iconic photograph taken during the Haiti earthquake widely republished in newspapers across the world without his permission after he uploaded the photos to TwitPic, then later that year Twitter's decision to display TwitPic photos directly on their website caused a brouhaha. TwitPic has finally decided to update their Terms of Service to make it clear that users of the service retain the copyright of everything they upload.
Deal of the day website Groupon is the fastest growing companies in web history and a popular way for local businesses to generate some buzz in their areas, but some independent photographers are finding out the hard way that offering special deals through Groupon might be the worst marketing decision they ever made.
Online SLR Camera Simulator is a neat flash app that helps teach the …
Google Street View photos won't be limited to the exterior of buildings for much longer -- the company has just announced Google Business Photos, a service that will allow Google websites to show the interiors of local businesses. If you thought having vehicles equipped with Street View cameras driven up and down every street in every city was a tedious project, for Business Photos Google is planning to have photographers sent to businesses that apply for the service. Crowd-sourcing the imagery would definitely be less labor intensive, but shooting inside private property requires permission.
There have been a number of devastating tornadoes in the Southeastern United States this past week, with the homes …
The Stolen Camera Finder is a new search engine developed over the past …
Did you know that 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some kind of …
Hiding or censoring part of an image through obfuscation is as easy as selecting the area in Photoshop and applying the Pixelate->Mosaic filter, but what if you don't have an image editing program at your disposal? If you're seriously paranoid about your privacy on the Internet, there's a new service called PhotoHide that helps you quickly add these pixelated areas to any photo. Everything is done through the web browser, and you can download the final image once you're done.