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Issues require a delicate balancing actCompanies that run seemingly public online spaces are taking on governmental roles by regulating content added by their users.As everything from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video become more central to public discourse around the world, the Internet could become a new arena for government regulation.Yahoo Inc.'s photo-sharing service, Flickr, was responsible for deleting a photograph posted by Dutch photographer Maarten Dors....

By JUSTIN WILLIAMS It hasn't been a banner year for Yahoo. It started off with an unsolicited acquisition bid for billions of dollars by the Internet's biggest villain, Microsoft, then was followed by some of the company's smartest talent abandoning ship en masse. Despite what the market may suggest, Yahoo was wise to reject the Microsoft offer. Microsoft's interest in Yahoo was, for the most part, to acquire its market share in search and online advertising - a segment currently dominated...

By Axelsen, Micheal THE LINE BETWEEN WORK AND PLAY IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY BLURRED. SO IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU ALLOW TO GO ONLINE It's the year 2020, and your legs are stretched out under that desk and a coffee is in your hand. You are successful. You did well at university, qualified as a CPA and deal with challenging, business-related issues every day. Your work is interesting, and you love working with clients. Of course, you did have to take...

ShoZu Inc. today connected users of its mobile social media services to nine additional online communities, including photo printing and storage site Snapfish, personal media storing and sharing on Ovi by Nokia, and mobile photo sharing service SnapMyLife. ShoZu users can now upload images to and exchange content with a total of 46 Web 2.0 properties from a single screen on their mobile device for fast and easy mobile social networking - including the ability to mass-publish any photo or...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Searchme, Inc. announced today that it is launching two new visual search features that help users quickly find, organize and share information. These include Media Search for videos and images with content from YouTube(TM) and Flickr(TM); and Stacks, visual bookmarks that users can share on email, blogs, web sites, Facebook(R) pages and MySpace.com(R), all with the click of a button. These features, along with how-to videos and a Stacks...

By Miguel Helft For more than two years, executives and other senior employees have been leaving their jobs at Yahoo at a steady, persistent trickle. The trickle has turned into a flood. Within days of Yahoo announcing last week that merger talks with Microsoft had ended, and that Yahoo would instead sign a search advertising partnership with its No. 1 rival, Google, three executive vice presidents, two senior vice presidents and handful of other well-regarded employees have announced that...

Geolocation method leverages power of Flickr image collectionResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised the first computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken. It's a feat made possible by searching through millions of GPS-tagged images in the Flickr online photo collection.The IM2GPS algorithm developed by computer science graduate student James Hays and Alexei A. Efros, assistant professor of computer...

Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have joined an exodus of senior Yahoo managers, the company confirmed Tuesday. Fake, who led the effort to create Brickhouse, Yahoo's San Francisco-based start-up incubator, will not be returning from maternity leave. Butterfield, her husband, who served as general manager of Flickr, will depart July 12. The couple, who founded the popular photo-sharing site together and sold it to Yahoo in March 2005 for a reported $30 million, are the...

Picnik.com (www.picnik.com), the leading online photo-editing application, today was named one of the 50 Best Web sites of 2008 by TIME magazine. In her review of Picnik, Anita Hamilton of TIME praised Picnik for an "elegant simplicity" that is lacking in other online photo editing sites and tools. Until Picnik, wrote Hamilton, photo editing has been "too complicated for mere mortals. Good thing you don't need any special skills to use the free photo-editing tools at Picnik." According to...

By Katherine Boehret Wouldn't it be great if, after attending an event -- such as a wedding -- at which friends and family took digital photos and videos, everyone could contribute to the same online album? It would be even better if everyone could access the album through a simple e- mail invitation instead of having to create another log-in profile. The once-frustrating process of sharing digital photos and videos has noticeably improved over the past year, thanks to seamless Web- based...