The new partnership would allow users of Yahoo’s photo sharing service to make their images available for licensing to clients of Getty’s digital image service.
No timetable for the service’s launch has yet been announced, however the images culled from Flickr would reside in a specially branded collection. Getty will invite select users to participate, and [...]

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Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.

Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will [...]

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Yahoo’s Flickr has launched Flickr Video, which allows “pro” accounts to upload 90-second video clips. Flickr’s limit is much lower than Google’s YouTube and is designed to avoid copyright issues. Adobe rolled out Media Player 1.0, based on its Air platform. Adobe’s Media Player 1.0 makes online video available outside a browser.
Adobe’s Flash technology is [...]

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