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Photobounce: Photo Organizing Face Recognition Software

Haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising.

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Catch it, tag it, bounce it. Fotobounce!
  • Identify and tag family & friends
  • Built in face recognition
  • Organize your photos into albums
  • Facebook and Flickr integration
  • View photos from your mobile device
  • Easy-to-use drag & drop interface
Download Fotobounce for free
Face Recognition

Built-in face recognition.
Stop wasting hours
individually tagging
your photos!
Let Fotobounce do it!
FotoMobile

Browse your photo
library on the go from
your BlackBerry,
iPhone, or iPod Touch!
Facebook / Flickr Integration

Upload your photos
right from Fotobounce
and avoid having to
painstakingly re-tag
your photos!
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Download Fotobounce for Macintosh

Fotobounce version 1.1 now available

Read more at fotobounce.com
 

Who Asked Flickr to Take Down Obama Joker Photo?

Time, DC, and the photographer who took the picture all deny filing a complaint.

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As NewsBusters reported last Wednesday, the photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in cities around the country.
At the time, Flickr claimed it had acted on advice of counsel due to legal issues involving copyright infringement.
Yet, according to Thomas Hawk, none of the conceivably interested parties filed a complaint with Flickr
Hawk contacted the photo’s creator Firas Alkhateeb to see if he knew who filed the request:
“I actually don’t know who filed the DMCA notice,” wrote Alkhateeb to me in an email, “but I figured it must be from Time magazine, since it’s their image. All flickr told me was that one was filed, but not by who.”
it appears Flickr is engaging in its own form of political censorship by either acting unilaterally or complying with the wishes of a party possessing no legal right to the picture in questionRead more at newsbusters.org
 

Flickr v. Free Speech. Where Is Their Courage?

A rare political photography clip.

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One thing I’ve learned over the years is this - screwing over your users while yelling “the lawyers made me do it!” rarely ends well.

Flickr really stepped in it this time
Sometime last week they took down a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight
Thomas Hawk has a good overview
There are lots of pictures mocking President Bush on a Time Magazine cover on Flickr that haven’t been removed. And of the Heath Ledger Joker character.
In the past Flickr has deleted accounts of users who are critical of President Obama, but as far as I know nothing like this was done to users who were critical of Bush.
It’s clear that the Flickr team wanted to take this image down. Not only was the image removed, but the entire page was taken down with all the comments to the image
Flickr lost my trust over this issue. They failed to stand up for a user who chose to display his work on Flickr over competitors. Read more at www.techcrunch.com
 

Flickeroom

A nice new way to browse Flickr.

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Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based app that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before!

You can now receive instant notifications for any activity on your photostream, upload photos by just drag-and-drop, add comments, mark faves, add notes, tweet about your photos and also view all info associated with an image from within the app.
 
Read more at www.flickroom.org
 

The 5 Most Inspiring People on Flickr

Photopreneur is one of my favorite photography blogs. Be sure to read this whole article which includes who or what inspires these inspiring photographers.

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Here are five of the most inspiring people on Flickr.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir

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Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is, of course, a Flickr icon. Her self-portraits have won her stacks of fans who follow her website and her blog.
David Hobby
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David Hobby is better known by his online moniker, Strobist. His blog is one of the most popular — and for anyone using artificial lighting, one of the most useful — photography sites on the Web.

David Bean

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David Bean, the founder of Pro Corner, runs a Flickr group that’s a lot smaller but just as important at handing out advice, helping amateurs step up and professionals stride ahead.

John Watson

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John Watson, who uses the name FD on Flickr, is famous for his huge range of Flickr tools.
Julie Kertesz
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French photographer Julie Kertesz might not be as well known as Rebekka or Strobist, but it’s her attitude that we like. Julie was already over 70 when she discovered blogging and Flickr which was then still in Beta.Read more at blogs.photopreneur.com