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Social Media Reunites Camera and Owner

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

The Flickr blog happily reports that one of its members used the photo-sharing site to get a lost camera back into the hands of its owner. Irenicdonna posted the following in the Flickr Help Forum and the "Scotland" discussion group: I found a camera, 2 months ago, which I handed in to ...

Why is blue the most popular color in social media?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it. Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...

Facebook landed him in jail

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

CNN reports the story of a college student, whose Facebook profile was used as evidence against him in court: Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the ...

Animoto

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Here is a cool new use for all those pictures we all have on our various social networking sites. Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button. Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two ...

Flickr Tag Galaxy

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

As with about half of the world, I'm kind of obsessed with nice pictures, so anybody that appreciates decent photography will love this site. I've been doing a lot of social networking research and came across Flickr's new Tag Galaxy. Its a German based application that has seriously won me ...

My first Photobucket image

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I was about to start a Flickr account, and then I realized it's owned by Yahoo. Lame. I went to Photobucket instead. (Don't worry; I'll try Flickr eventually.) I shot this photo today and uploaded it from my phone via e-mail: By the way, I just received a confirmation text message ...