Monthly Archives: February 2009

Start the presses

It looks like the well respected, under funded, user generated JPG magazine will soon be back in production.
The magazine’s assets have been acquired by a group of investors who will also continue to employee some of the magazine’s staff, we’ve confirmed with a source with knowledge of the deal.
Via JPG Magazine Has Been Acquired, Lives Anew

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Canon 5D Mark II vs. Nikon D700

Gizmodo did a good side by side review of these two new cameras.  If course, the Canon is a no-brainer for me because of my existing investment in their lenses.  The bottom line:
In the end, for me, I give the trophy to the 5D Mark II for the 1080p video. It’s got its drawbacks, sure, [...]

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#1 photo site?

Flickr?  Photobucket?  Think again.  It’s Facebook.  And they’re making huge gains with more than 10 billion photos uploaded to the site so far. 

Facebook photo traffic has really exploded since their redesign added a photo tab to the main page.  Meanwhile, Flickr is about to pass Photobucket in monthly users.  Funny, I don’t think know a [...]

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Facebook’s Comment Box Widget

Today Facebook launched a widget tied to Facebook Connect that lets publishers easily implement a commenting system on their site that is automagically tied to visitor’s Facebook account.
This is the first widget Facebook has released for use outside of the Facebook site and they are planning more.  Other commenting services like JS-Kit already allow users to use [...]

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