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Flickr goes HD

Starting today, Flickr supports 720p HD video!  It’s limited to Flickr Pro members — but free users also got an upgrade and can now upload 2 standard def videos per month.  Previously, free users could upload 0 videos per month.
[Edit: digging a little deeper, anyone can actually upload HD but only video from Pro members [...]

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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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11% Of Internet Users Are On Twitter?!?

Interesting new data from Pew shows 11% of online Americans are now tweeting.  Up from 6% in May.  Maybe Twitter actually be able to figure out how to make money some day.
Online microblogging services like Twitter, a popular social media tool for many media companies and television networks, are used by 11% of online Americans, [...]

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