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Flickriver Shows Off Flickr Collections with Stark Black Backgrounds [Photos]

Flickr's been changing up its look lately , but the photo sharing site still puts your photos on white backgrounds. If black is more your backdrop, and you like the minimalist look, Flickriver gives you Flickr photos with a new layout. More
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Flickr Photos Are Getting a Massive Overhaul

As of today, users can start seeing bigger, bolder Flickr photo pages with prettier controls and more apparent options for learning more about each image. For one thing, photos will automatically be a lot bigger — 640 pixels wide on the photo’s main page. Flickr has also placed the “who, where, when, how” of related information just to the right of the photo.
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HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional code that can be scanned by smartphone cameras to automatically pull up text, photos, videos, music and URLs. These codes have become mobile-friendly ways to point people in the offline space to online resources. While already popular in Japan, consumers in the United States are just now becoming more familiar with QR codes and what to do with them. If you’re unfamiliar with the business potential of QR codes, use this post as a crash course in how to get started.
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Texting While Driving Not Just a Teen Issue [REPORT]

There have been numerous reports (and even public service announcements ) about the problem of teens texting while driving . However, new research indicates that adults are just as big if not worse offenders when it comes to fiddling with their phones while behind the wheel. The report from Pew’s Internet and American Life Project found that 27% of adults text while driving –- essentially the same amount of teens who said they do so in another Pew study conducted late last year. But when you measure both sending and reading texts, adults are worse offenders by a margin of 47% to 34%. Beyond that, adults are much bigger offenders when it comes to chatting on their cell phones while driving –- 61% admit to doing so versus 43% of teens
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WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts

The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0 , but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month (according to data from Quantcast). To put that in perspective, there have more than 15 billion tweets , four billion Flickr photos and two million minutes of video uploaded to YouTube (every day!). Of course, one could argue that the written word (in blog form in this case) requires a bit more thought and effort than tweets, photos or vids, and hence is an equally if not more impressive milestone.
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Drowning Our Broadcasts [Image Cache]

Just a vintage television set floating down the lazy river. That's Drowning Our Broadcasts , a photograph taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II by Flickr user Seth Rader . Beautiful, meditative, mellow, sublime. [ Flickr ] More
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Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr

As one of the most popular social sites on the planet, Flickr is also undoubtedly one of the most popular misspelled domains. Pronounced “Flicker,” Flickr decided to be all Web 2.0-cutesy with its name back in the day. That’s fine, except when someone else owns the Flicker.com domain. Yahoo, which bought Flickr in 2005, has finally done something about that — obtaining Flicker.com. As we noted a year ago, Flicker.com put itself on sale in a very visible way
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Tomorrow, There Will Be More Than 350 TechCrunch Birthday Parties Everywhere

Tomorrow, TechCrunch turns five years old. We’ve grown up with the Web over that time from a one-man hobby in Michael’s home to an expanding media outfit of almost two dozen full-time staff around the world. Since all of you won’t fit in our new offices in San Francisco (as much as we’d like to invite you, especially the commenters on MG’s posts), we thought why not let readers throw their own parties around the world. A couple weeks ago, with the launch of Meetups Everywhere at our Disrupt conference in New York, we started with about 50 Meetups.
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Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Facebook for Easy Sharing [Flickr]

You like how Flickr handles and displays your photo uploads, but far more friends are on Facebook than Flickr. A new integration between the two services makes it easy to have your photo geekery and share it, too. More
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