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At the close of every year I like to take a look at the web metric trends on my web site via Google Analytics and forecast how I might need to adapt over the coming year(s). Yesterday I reviewed the trends of mobile web traffic and today I’ll dive into the larger trends of referring traffic from social media web sites. If you’re familiar with my past writing on social media trends and strategies you’

The 21st episode of PhotoNetCast is out. In this special episode the Flickr Collection on Getty is discussed. Take a listen: PhotoNetCast #21 – The Flickr/Getty Partnership From the PhotoNetCast site: On January 21, Flickr made a second announcement stating that invitations to Flickr users to start submitting the “chosen” images to Getty were being sent en masse. What does this all mean to photographers, either pros

Earlier today Flickr announced on their blog they’ve kicked off Phase 2 of their effort to build the Flickr Collection on Getty Images by sending out invitations to various Flickr photographers. (See Building the Flickr Collection on Getty Images) I was one of the many photographers who received an invitation and decided to check it out. To cut to the chase for now I’m going to be passing on the opportuni

Today Flickr announced a limited partnership with Getty to create a Flickr Stock Collection.  In short you need to be discovered by Getty photo editors and additional details are forthcoming. The great folks at Getty Images and Flickr are joining forces to create a collection of royalty free, rights ready and rights managed photographs. This announcement is just the first step and there’s a lot to do before we lau

There have been many stories over the past few years about copyright infringement on Flickr. To date most have been about individuals maliciously downloading the work of others to resell it as their own or companies using photographs commercially violating either the licensing restrictions of the photo or ignoring the need for a model release. What most remain unaware of is that Flickr fosters copyright infringement