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Flickr adds support for OpenStreetMap machine tags
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| The Flickr developers have announced that they have
| added support for OpenStreetMap (OSM) machine tags to
| their photo sharing site. Each object, like a building,
| that OSM finds on its maps is assigned a number known
| as an Element. These elements are; nodes â single
| geospatial points, ways â ordered interconnections of
| at least two nodes and relations which group nodes,
| ways and even other relations together.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Flickr-adds-support-for-OpenStreetMap-machine-tags--/news/114346
Wikimedia CTO Departs for Open-Source Microblogging Startup
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| Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for
| Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's
| leaving the company to work for StatusNet (formerly
| Laconica) as their chief architect.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikimedia_cto_departs_for_open-source_microbloggin.php
Sen. Durbin Proposes $15 Million in Grants for Open Textbook Creators
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| Grant-eligible teaching materials must be both "free as
| in freedom" and "free as in beer." S. 1714 provides
| that the "full and complete digital content of each
| open textbook" must be "made available free of charge
| to, and may be downloaded, redistributed, changed,
| revised, or otherwise altered by, any member of the
| general public."
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http://pblog.bna.com/techlaw/2009/09/sen-durbin-proposes-15-million-in-grants-for-open-textbook-creators.html
What is the Right to Read Campaign?
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| To solve this problem the law in question i.e. the
| Indian Copyright Act, 1957 should be amended to permit
| persons with print impairment to convert materials into
| accessible formats.
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http://www.righttoread.in/
Recent:
Desktop Flickr Organizer for GNOME users
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| If youâre wondering how to organize your Flickr sets offline as well as your
| tags and comments, there is a way! Download and install Desktop Flickr
| Organizer. It helps you do the following:
|
| * Upload images - you could already edit its attributes: description,
| title, tags, privacy, sets, etc.
| * Manage your sets. You could even add new ones. This is one thing I
| canât seem to do with Postr. With just a few drag and drop choices and
| synchronization you could easily update your sets. Sounds great doesnât
| it?
| * Edit tags, titles, descriptions, privacy settings and licenses. If you
| uploaded everything already and forgot the stories behind the pictures,
| you could add them later.
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http://www.newlinuxuser.com/desktop-flickr-organizer-for-gnome-users/
Flickr Uploaders for Linux: Secretive, But Not Endangered Beasts
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| Flickr is almost like Xerox, or Kleenex, in that its name is in some ways
| inextricably linked to the service it delivers. There are many other photo
| sharing sites, of course, with similar (or perhaps even superior) features
| and options. Maybe it's because it is one of the first services that's
| managed to grow, add features, and consistently stand out from the others, it
| is often the first service people try, and the one many ultimately choose to
| continue with.
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http://ostatic.com/177015-blog/flickr-uploaders-for-linux-secretive-but-not-endangered-beasts
Related:
Google adds Android app for Flickr photos
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| Google released on Thursday a new sample application called Photostream that
| will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored
| at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10033044-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Flickr taps into open source for better maps. Yahoo Maps to follow?
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| Flickr is now utilizing maps from the wiki-based Open Street Map project to
| improve the detail level on cities where Yahoo's maps fall short.
|
| [...]
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| The Open Street Map was launched in 2004 as an open project, allowing anyone
| with proper GPS data or local knowledge of a city to contribute to the map of
| the world.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10016247-2.html
FlickrFS for Linux
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| Flickrfs is a virtual filesystem which mounts on your linux machine like any
| other partition. Once mounted, it retrieves information about your photos
| hosted on your flickr account, and shows them as files. You can now easily
| copy photos from your local machine to this mount, and it will automatically
| upload them to your flickr account. Similary, you can copy the files from
| your mount to your local machine, and it will download your images from
| flickr.
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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/05/12/flickrfs-for-linux/
Flickr Introduces Code.Flickr, Delivers APIs and Source Code
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| The announcement is part of an effort from Flickr in which it has been
| opening up over 10,000 lines of open source code in its public subversion
| repository, issued over 2,000 new API keys, and more.
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http://ostatic.com/158974-blog/flickr-introduces-code-flickr-delivers-apis-and-source-code
Flickr upload tool turns 3.0, goes open-source
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| Open-source software may be freely modified, copied, and shared; opening
| source code could let programmers modify the Uploadr tool so it works on
| Linux or uploads to other photo-sharing sites, for example.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9833549-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The Linux way to Flickr
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| Flickr contains more than 15,000 pictures tagged with "Linux." Flickr
| can help introduce Free Software to non-geeks in a fun andn
| on-intimidating way ("See Mom? We're just like everybody else!").
| Many Flickr users have already done just that, showing off their
| FOSS-related talents in many fields.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/28/1628237&from=rss
One of the coolest Flickr applications to date
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| For Linux users, there's an answer in the form of Flickrfs, a virtual
| filesystem which mounts on your Linux machine like any other partition.
| Developed by Manish Rai Jain, Flickrfs is based upon the FUSE kernel module
| and allows you to upload, download and organise your Flickr images as if they
| were local files.
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http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12867
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