Social Services Profit, Flickr Collection At Getty Images

Looks like Yahoo found another way to make money from Flickr, for creators of photographs, the middlemen (yahoo and Getty) and who ever else pick up the crumbs, like ad agencies.
The Getty site has a nice Flickr Collection and promises to make it dynamic and larger as time goes by. The pricing is not cheap, $50 for 500KB photo to about $330 for a 47.5MB photo.
The getty images seeing the value of 3 billion and growing collection of photographs, has hand picked photos from user submitted accounts.
More than being another collection, the getty flickr collection has added value in being able to search by categoreis such as concept, people, location, subject and composition.
If you are planing to make money from your photos at flickr, you need to be chosen to sign up with getty images and flickr has all the information on this page, such as;

"How can I participate? Getty Images’ photo editors will identify photos that they would like to feature in the collection and reach out directly to members of the Flickr community via a new platform that we are developing for them."
Hope this will be a better deal for all those photographers! not a dead fish!

Tags: flickr, getty images, Flickr Collection

Flick your Photos With Flickr Graph

Does Flickr bring people together? Yes anyone that has visited knows that. Strangers from far corners of the world sharing what their cameras caught and commenting on photos, creating groups and teams, both public and by invite only. But I found the Flickr graph which allows you to explore those relationships that exist within Flickr.
In my research about social networks, I have seen other methods that explore relationships withing groups like MySpace or even yahoo email. This also uses classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs and I have no clue about the algorithm as he explains.
This is not a new application and has been running for while, since 2005.
Go have a look.

tag: flickr, social networks, social engineering

SFAC Gallery and JPJ Magazine "takes on Flickr"

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is presenting a multi-faceted exhibition focusing on the new digital environment that has revolutionized the way photographers shoot, store and share images. This complete endeavor centers on two Bay Area enterprises that are helping to poster new frontier in this new and now 49er era.

Exhibition:

In the South Gallery- JPG Magazine: Community and Opportunity
In partnership with the SFAC Gallery, the JPG Magazine community tackles the theme Breakthrough in a multimedia exhibition that celebrates global participation and exposes the editorial process. An accompanying feature will appear in JPG's May issue.

In the North Gallery- Takes on Flickr
Six leading Bay Area curators explore the expansive Flickr community and emerge with image-sets that reflect unexpected thematic threads and a diverse array of photographic styles.

Curators: Rebeca Bollinger, Heather Champ, Joseph del Pesco, Chuck Mobley, Renny Pritikin, and Terri Whitlock.

Links;
Exhibition information at SFAC
Takes on Flickr (Gallery Photos)
JPG Magazine

Tags: sfac, flickr, jpgmag, jpg magazine, 49er

Random Flickr-Blogging IMG_6754

IMG_6754
Originally uploaded by jhatton1980.

I believe in people, but I love little people, I think they are the best people in the world.
This Flick, building blocks our world, playing with building blocks is my Random Flickr-Blogging IMG_6754.
Best way to see people is through children's eyes.

Tags: RFB, random flickr_blogging

Where it all started:
If I Ran the Zoo: Random Flickr-Blogging: IMG_6754

Future of Web Apps Summit!

Social networking usually revolve around web apps. Blogger where this site resides is one of them and who have not flicked on flickr? And I am sure you have bumped into technorati, and Odeo, techcrunch yahoo, google are all web apps that have revolutionised the web sphere. If you are interested in these services, how would you like to here the people who implemented or were involved in implementing these technologies? Get into web 2.0? Then sign for the two-day Future of Web Apps Summit! You can sign up at summit website. Speakers include Evan Williams formerly of Blogger and now of Odeo, Ted Rheingold of Dogster, Tantek Celik of Technorati, and Steve Olechowski of Feedburner. The conference is put on by UK based Carson Systems, a company focused on enterprise web applications that is led by Ryan and Gillian Carson.
The cost is $295 for two days. And if you are lucky, click here to go to Shoutblog and you might get a 25% discount.
By the way Shoutblog is the blog of BuzzShout. BuzzShout is a democratic reviews and listings site for modern web 2.0 companies. Check out the front page for the latest companies and reviews as per description on the site.