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The Weirdest Things The FDA Thinks Will Kill You

At first glance, the US Federal Drug Administration’s Flickr stream of recalled products seems a bit ridiculous. But if you’re constantly on Flickr and you care about your health, the life you save could be your own. Or, you, know, the laugh.

August 3, 2011
Online

White House Flickr Shows Obama Struggling To Quit Smoking

Hey, I don’t begrudge the guy for still chewing Nicorette gum some four years after he tried giving up smoking. With all the stress he must deal with, it’s surprisingly he hasn’t taken to smoking far-stronger stuff.

August 2, 2011
Cameras

A Blind Camera For The Photographically Challenged

The Blind Camera is perfect for those people bored by the mass-produced point and shoot cameras. There’s no viewfinder, no lens, or flash. All it has on the outside is an LCD screen and a shutter button.

July 14, 2011
Online

Everyone’s Welcome To An Opinion, But Often They’re ‘Wrong’

Wrong, or shamed by their opinions, as Flickr user André Rabelo saw when he uploaded this black and white photo to a Flickr pool called DeleteMe!, which votes on whether a photo has any right being amongst the top classes of photography.

July 9, 2011
Online

Twitter And Flickr Light Up The Planet

People love visualising internet usage, mostly because it’s very pretty. But photographer and NYT tech editor Eric Fischer’s outdone himself with perhaps the prettiest one of all, mesmeroisingly mapping Flickr and Twitter use across the dark surface of the Earth.

June 10, 2011
Mobile

iOS 5 Plays Nice With All Major Social Networks, Not Just Twitter

Twitter may have the exclusive status of being built into iOS for sharing purposes, but that doesn’t mean Apple’s ignoring Facebook. In addition to Twitter handles, Contacts in iOS 5 has spots for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, and totally inexplicably, MySpace. [AllThingsD]

May 4, 2011
Online

White House Photo Is Almost Flickr’s Most-Viewed Photo Ever

It takes a fair amount of badass to become the most-viewed photo of all time on Flickr, but the photo of Obama, Hillary Clinton and other politicians watching Osama bin Laden’s capture is well on its way to knocking a lame (by comparison) photo of Nohkalikai Falls, Cherraphunjee off the pedestal.

April 18, 2011
Cameras

iPhone 4 Is Killing Cameras When It Comes To Photo Uploads

The iPhone 4 has steadily been pushing its way up the most-uploaded list at Flickr for some time now, but as TechCrunch notes, it’s almost toppled the Nikon D40 off the pedestal. They estimate it’ll be around a month when Apple receives the Flickr crown, and we can safely say that iPhone 4 owners upload the most photos online. On Flickr, at least.

April 1, 2011
Software

Creepy Stalks Twitter, Flickr Users By Aggregating GPS Data

Windows/Linux: If you’ve ever doubted how much anyone could track you based on information embedded in geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr, free app Creepy will show you by aggregating GPS coordinates for any user, pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map.

March 18, 2011
Software

Flickr Just Got A Lot More IPad Friendly

Flickr may not have an official App, but they did make their site iPad-friendly. If you tap any photo on the site, you’ll enter the lightbox mode, where you can swipe through photo collections, or launch a slideshow. [Flickr]

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