Word: flickr
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...This portable gadget runs little Web applications so you can access Internet information quickly and easily without your computer. Widgets update you visually on the weather, traffic or stock market, or you can use them to showcase your Flickr photos bedside, or to check out just about any other bit of Web content that interests you, even an eBay auction. This simply designed, elegant little device stands alone and can travel with you. After winning an innovation award at CES this week, Emtrace will release it in the U.S. this spring, though the price has yet to be announced...
...might make money someday (remember Pets.com?) that was good enough. Today's upstarts are more fully formed and are often led by wealthy veterans of the first boom. They know Google's not the only shopper. Yahoo! has spent close to $100 million for start-ups Flickr and Jumpcut, among others. Facebook may be next, with Yahoo! said to be mulling a $1 billion offer. With investors on track to inject $500 million into new Net firms this year--twice last year's total, according to a Dow Jones VentureOne report--this may be the start of a golden hunting...
...founder Julie Davidson says that unlike other calendar services, 30 Boxes is focused on younger users. "They have a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a Flickr account," she says, "and they want to incorporate their social media within a calendar." Davidson sees Facebook as her site's primary competitor because they are both after the same youthful audience...
...Flickr This public showroom for personal pics is one of the fastest-growing social networks on the Web, and now it has a blog
...Setting the Record Straight Picture this Our May 8 story on Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of Flickr, a photo-sharing website, incorrectly stated that the idea for Flickr came from an engineer who created an easy way to post pictures on the Web. The idea was entirely Butterfield...