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Flickr missing an opportunity?

14 Friday Jul 2006

Posted by mp3monster in Photography, Technology

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Best start with my cards out on the table – I’m a big fan of Flickr, no doubt about it. I love the fact that they’ve provided APIs and people are creating lots of cool extras like screen savers etc etc

 

But I think Flickr maybe missing a great opportunity. Let me first give some background. I enjoy photography, and could reasonably labelled as an amateur photographer rather than just a snapper. Some of the photos I’ve taken friends have blogged about (Richard’s Blog) and one particular friend has been encoruaging me to perhaps get my photos used. For me, that means allowing my photos to be used is a stock photo library (these are libraries where photos for commercial calendars etc are purchased). So started looking around a bit at services where I could submit photos for use in a stock library.

 

I have to admit I was a little shocked. Some libraries charge a considerable amount (£60+ or ~$100 per year) for holding your photos which may or may not be picked up and used, and or a large chunk (around the 60% mark)of any payment you might get. I’ve also seen criteria for a minimum number of photos, and if you’re starting out in this area you’re probably not going to have enough photos!

 

So here we are with Flickr – which if you hadn’t noticed allows you specify a Creative Commons license on your photos (i.e. free to use as long as you don’t modify) – so by default you still own copyright. With a means by which you can track down photos on a theme, you have several elements of what it would take to provide a stock library (i.e. indicate licensing, find photos by type, see the photos and download them). From here surely all they need to do is to allow people looking photos to buy a means to make a purchase.

 

There is a question of quality of picture – well Flickr could provide a premium service to buyers by reviewing photos marked as stock usable; and resolution – well Flickr already has the idea of the pro account that allows higher quality images for a fraction of the price being offered by the stock library services), so could they offer a pro plus account for a few more dollars which allows you submit even higher res images or the images with their associated RAW format?

 

Perhaps someone could implement a brokerage solution using the Flickr API?

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G8 – compaign continues for Make Povery History

14 Friday Jul 2006

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The Make Poverty History organisation are continuing to apply pressure to the G8 to try and keep the commitments made last year at Gleneagles being turned into a reality. The compaign included Travis slapping a nice big postit on 10 Downing Street’s door – more here.   If you would like to do you bit – then go to the http://www.live8live.com/postit site here.

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