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Getty To Sell Stock Photography Through Flickr

Yahoo! Inc. - Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.

New Getty Deal Compliments Flickr's Photographers

Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual.  But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.

Google Changing Name Of Picasa To 'Google Photos'

The Google Operating System blog reports that Google is likely changing the name of their Picasa photo sharing service to “Google Photos”. A few other features are due to rollout as well, including licensing options, email photo uploads, and tagging of people in pics.

Cofounders Butterfield, Fake Leaving Flickr

We've moved from embarrassing to scary to ludicrous.  Like it or not, Yahoo's VIPs keep on departing, and Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the married cofounders of Flickr, are the latest well-known employees to quit the company.

Follow These 10 On FriendFeed

I've been pretty active on FriendFeed for the past couple of weeks and it has definitely become one of my new top spots on the web. In many ways FriendFeed simply replaces a lot of other sites where I was spending time in the past. It has completely replaced Twitter for me for instance and has also taken my chunk of time that I used to spend focusing on my Flickr contact's photos (I now see all of these photos on FriendFeed instead of Flickr directly itself).

Flickr Favorites Is On FriendFeed

Flickr Gives Developers A Friendly Nudge

There's a bit of a conceptual gap between code and pretty pictures, so we wouldn't have guessed that there would be a lot of overlap between the developer and photographer crowds.  Still, Flickr's going to see how many people it can serve with a new developer website and blog.

Facebook Offers To Share Info From Flickr, del.icio.us

Think your friends don't know enough about you already?  Facebook's got a fix; the social network now allows users to import stories from other sites.

Petition Against Video On Flickr

With less than 24 hours behind Flickr's announcement yesterday of adding video to their service, the early sentiment from existing Flickr users appears to be largely negative.

Flickr's Major Upgrades

Flickr launched their widely rumored video service today. Videos are limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size. Only Pro members can upload videos. The video above is one of the first videos on the service from Heather Champ's photostream. More information from the Flickr Blog here.