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Foursquare Takes Over Times Square [PIC]

A massive array of shimmering advertisements for Foursquare has been erected in New York City’s Times Square. This picture just appeared on Flickr ; it’s pretty impressive. The ad towers over American Eagle’s Times Square retail store. Foursquare reportedly did not pay for the ad space. Instead, it has some other kind of deal with American Eagle.
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“Photo Memories” Coming to Facebook Places?

While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories. We’ve been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this feature with a small number of users first before committing to a larger roll-out. But this offering is consistent with how Facebook has presented its newest feature. At its launch , Facebook’s Vice President of Product, Chris Cox, described Places as a digital repository for all your location-based memories. He described a couple’s children being able to use Facebook Places data to pinpoint the spot of their parents’ first kiss, for example.
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Windows Live Essentials Betas Get Speed and Webapp Compatibility Updates [Updates]

Windows only: Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials apps just received a bulk update while in beta, giving Mail much better Gmail folder handling, the underrated Live Writer superior spell checking and Word importing, Photo Gallery some Flickr video, and other improvements all around. More
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People Magazine iPad App Launch Stalled by Photographer Disputes

Publishers are clamoring to get their magazine titles onto Apple’s iPad , but many may be facing a new challenge: photographers. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Time Inc. has been forced to delay the release of its People magazine iPad app, in part because of disputes with photo agencies over licensing agreements as they pertain to the iPad. Time Inc. has already released iPad variants of its Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated titles, and had hoped to launch People earlier this month
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7 Perfect Posterous Themes for Multimedia Blogs

Posterous has been around since 2006, but the super-simple blogging platform is still relatively unknown when compared to blog giants like WordPress and Tumblr . If that sentence didn’t mean anything to you then, ironically, Posterous was designed for you. The platform takes all the functionality and impressive visuals from (sometimes complicated) services like WordPress and distills the tech side of things to let you focus on sharing content. Posterous allows you to write blogs from your own e-mail and auto-formats your media to fit.
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Flickr Rolls Out Photo Overhaul to All Users

After three weeks of testing, Flickr is rolling out its massively redesigned photo pages to all of its users. The redesign overhaul focuses three key aspects of the photo page: the navigation, the context behind photos and the size of photos themselves. Flickr has increased the default view size of photos “by 28%” — that’s 640 pixels wide. You can also darken the background around photos so you can enjoy the images and nothing else
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HOW TO: Add Multimedia to Your Blog

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 website without multimedia is like a cupcake without icing: Functional but lacking. These days, all manner of web pages from huge company sites to small business blogs are expected to add audio, photo, or video to their posts and homepages. While this all sounds well and good for multimedia companies that produce endless amounts of content, small businesses with text-based websites can run into trouble finding and providing appropriate content
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Flickr Updates iPhone App for HD Video Uploads and Multitasking

Photo-sharing service Flickr has released version 1.2 of its iPhone app, adding several new features to take advantage of the iPhone 4 . Version 1.2 comes with two major additions specific to iOS 4 and iPhone 4 users. First, the new app now supports multitasking for uploads; you no longer have to keep the app open in order to send the photos and videos you capture to your Flickr account. On top of that, Flickr for iPhone now supports HD video upload to correspond with the iPhone 4’s 720p video capabilities. The app also comes with some usability and design enhancements, including the ability to clear recent searches and the removal of navigation controls on full-screen photos until you tap on the photo you’re viewing
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HOW TO: Give Your Photos a Vintage Look

Your profile photo is an important part of your online personality, offering a glimpse of you to the wider world. We’ve previously brought you tips for creating the perfect profile pic , and in this post we’ll be looking at some great online services that can help you create a variety of fun, vintage-looking pics for your profile. So, for anyone who doesn’t have photo editing know-how, expensive editing software and a load of time to spare, here’s how to create a retro profile pic in a matter of minutes using some absolutely free, entirely online services. Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed any! The Original Shot This is the photo we’re editing, shown here as a control pic so you can gauge how dramatic the effects we’ve picked really are. A standard snap from a point-and-shoot camera, there’s nothing wrong with this image, but read on to see how it can be made so much more fun in just a few clicks.
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