Weblog Tools Collection » 10 Flickr Hacks is a great article exploring the virtues of flickr, the new picture hosting service provided by Yahoo.
What makes 10 Flickr Hacks so interesting is that it highlights the community-mindedness of web 2.0 ideas in being able to create interactive activity with what is effectively a fancy picture hosting service.
You have a lost of 10 ways in which widely accessible innate content can be turned into something interesting.
Maybe web 2.0 is more a state of mind rather than any specific application?
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Yahoo has launched a great new service (ok, this may seem hypocrticial given my previous posts - but hey, we’re in a different country now), which incorporates:
It looks an awful lot like the types of features myspace.com has, but either way, it is soon going to become popular as mor eand more people get into the Web 2.0 “community spirit” state of mind!
I’m creating my account as we speak and will post more shots later!
An interesting article cropped-up on Boing Boing linking to this article by Reporters Sans Frontieres.
In it, the article quotes a court paper stating that Yahoo aided the Chinese authorities in their search for evidence to convict Li Zhi (jailed for 8 years for anti-government comments on the web).
What is incredible about this incident is the willingness of Yahoo to provide information to help convict someone (notably in a communist country with the 2nd largest internet population!) whose right to freedom of speech is the very thing that has helped build Yahoo into the worldwide company it is - can they sit at their computers with no idea of the impact this might have or is the Chinese internet users insatiable appetite for realitively unregulated content enough to wash over the scandal?
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