One of the coolest applications leveraging the Twitter API is Twittervision. From time to time when things are slow it’s pretty fun just to check out and see what conversations are happening across the world. Today Flickrvision Beta appears to have been released by Dave Troy. In a similar fashion to Twittervision, as photos are posted on Flickr the information is laid over a Google maps page. Note: The photos s
In 2003 I was blown away with the news of the first widely published gigapixel image, by Max Lyons. In fact seeing the gigapixel image (comprised of one billion pixels) of Bryce Canyon sparked my interest in digital panoramic photography (see Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography). Today I’m blown away by the news of the first terapixel image (comprised of one trillion pixels). Unlike the more scenic gigapixe
Today on the Flickr Blog it’s been announced that the slideshow function has been updated. Announcing Slideshow 2007 (Web User Edition) – Flickr Blog I’m interested to see this in action in more than one way. For one it will be nice to see this applied on the Flickr site and it will be neat to see how it may be employed via the Flickr API. In looking at my Flickr site this change is in effect as of
A few weeks ago I discovered a great site called photographyVoter.com, founded by Paul O’Connor. The site is similar to Digg.com, but is squarely focused around photography. For a little more background check out Interview with Paul O’Connor. In case you missed it check out my last recommended photography resource: “Photographer Rights & Education“
I’m not sure how this slipped by me, but Wired published a very interesting development in March “Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries“. It’ll be interesting to see how this is used in the future to detect altered photojournalism photos. As we’ve seen repeatedly particularly with the high profile case of Allan Dietrich, previously noted in my post “Ethics of Photography: Career Suicide by
Sometime ago my friend Oskar approached me with the results of an experiment that was mind blowing. He ran an experiment which enlightened me regarding the aspect of working with JPEG format files that drastically impacts image quality. At the core of Oskar’s observation is that when working with a JPEG file, in many programs (potentially even Photoshop), each alteration made will prompt a save in the program b
I just received word, as an iView Media Pro affiliate, that iView Media Pro will no longer be available after May 16th. Now that iView Media Pro is part of Microsoft the application has been assimilated into Microsoft Expression Media. Looking at the Microsoft Expression Media page it looks as though Microsoft is finally ramping up its design and image product line to compete with Adobe’s software suite. Unfort
Last night at 11:53PM, after 4 months of civily requesting a refund from www.mp4converter.net for their non-functioning MP4 Converter software (MP4 Converter – 3.2.10.0418) , I left a rating on VersionTracker.com warning others to avoid their software and their company. This morning at 5:44AM I received a confirmation email from my podcast hosting company that my account has been closed per my request. The only