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Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Friday Photo: El Matador Beach, California

Mark Evans
Director, Community

A pillar of PlanetEye is inspiring and beautiful travel photographs. Many of them come from PlanetEye members (you can register here), and our fast-growing Flickr group.

To put the spotlight on the terrific photographs within PlanetEye, we’re launching a new feature on the blog called “The Friday Photo”. This week’s photo comes from our Flickr group, featuring a beautiful shot of El Matador Beach taken near Trancas, California by iseemoo.

Friday Photo

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Our Canon Rebel XTi Winner!

karen
Marketing Coordinator

Our users never cease to amaze me with how excited they are about our travel planning service. We had an absolutely fantastic response to our Canon Rebel XTi contest, and I’m proud to say it was awarded to Ben Young from Halifax!

Congratulations, Ben! We look forward to seeing your photos on PlanetEye once you’ve uploaded them!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Flickr Group Hits 500 Members

Mark Evans
Director, Community

Planeteye Logo-4
A few months ago, PlanetEye launched a group on Flickr as a way to become part of the world’s most popular photo-sharing service.

We felt it was important to be where photo enthusiasts hang out. Our goals for the group were simple: create a place where people could share beautiful travel photography and, along the way, maybe build the PlanetEye brand.

So, we’re excited about reaching a major milestone: 500 members on our Flickr group! A big pat on the back to Kate Struthers, who has been enthusiastically nurturing our Flickr group.

If you’d like to be member #501, we’re waiting for you. :)

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Flickr Launches Video Service

Mark Evans
Director, Community

After an awful lot of anticipation and speculation, Flickr has finally launched its new video service.

Well, it’s sort of a video service given the maximum length of the videos is a whopping 90 seconds. And if you want to upload videos, you have to be a Flickr Pro member, which will set you back $25/year.

So why the 90-second limit, which hardly seems like it’s enough time to do or say anything? Here’s the official explanation from the Flickr blog:

“While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.”

Frankly, I think the 90-second limit will be changed pretty soon because while Flickr wants video to “long photos”, 90 seconds is just not enough time to anything worthwhile or valuable. Flickr should also turf the pay-to-play uploading structure, which right now looks like nothing more than a way to jump-start Flickr Pro sales.

More: Paul Stamatiou has some thoughts about Flickr Video, which he says was originally limited to 60-seconds. Thomas Hawk describes the 90-second limit as “interesting” and something that “will likely keep a lot of copyrighted material off of the site”.

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Monday, April 7th, 2008

Flickr Group Contest

Mark Evans
Director, Community

Big news from PlanetEye! Well, sort of big news if you’re into Flickr and interested in entering a contest.

We’re running a contest featuring the theme “Off the Beaten Track”. We’re looking for beautiful shots from remote and distant locations around the world. It’s not that we don’t love iconic photographs of places such as the Eiffel Tower but Paris isn’t exactly remote is it?

Here are the rules: You can submit up to 10 photos/day, photos must be geotagged, and tagged “PlanetEye remote”.

Finally, we’re offering a prize for the “best” photo entered: a shiny, new 4GB SD card.

You can find our Flickr group here.

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Saugatuck, Michigan

Mark Evans
Director, Community

With summer just around the corner, visions of a holiday on the beach are difficult to resist. For anyone looking for inspiration, this photo taken in northern Michigan is a sight for sore eyes!
Saugatuck, Michigan

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

Stunning Hawaii Photos

Mark Evans
Director, Community

PlanetEye has been incredibly lucky to have recruited an amazing group of freelance photographers to set the stage for our goal to provide beautiful travel photography. Here’s a great example from Lisa Majkrzak, who is shooting Hawaii.

Fireman

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Stunning Photography

Mark Evans
Director, Community

If you’re into travel photography, you should become a regular visitor to Stuck in Customs, which touts itself as offering “unique photography for unique people”. Here’s a great example of the stunning photographs you’ll see on the blog. If we’re lucky, maybe we can get Stuck in Customs’ Trey Ratcliffe to become a member of PlanetEye!

Headstrong

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Monday, February 11th, 2008

Stalled Romance? Try GPS!

karen
Marketing Coordinator

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It’s that time of year again when everyone’s minds turn to thoughts of love… or, at the last minute, their thoughts turn to the nearest available flower shop for something no doubt dripping in baby’s breath.

If you’re thinking big this year, and eloping, you might want to consider using GPS to make your wedding and honeymoon even more memorable.
My best friend was married last year and her initial idea was to elope. What stopped here were thoughts of her family: not being able to “share the day” with them.Geotagged photos may have changed that for good.

Using the power of Geotagging, you could have your photos taken using a GPS dongle, and then when you upload them to PlanetEye, you could get an overview of your trip that you could share with your family and friends, so they can gain the feeling of being there. (Okay it might not be a 1:1 Substitute for your dad giving you away, but you get the point.)

This is just one of the ways Geotagging can improve your life by bringing captured experiences into a shared environment. Get an account today, and give it a try, because on the web, as in love, you never know unless you try.

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

What’s Ahead for Flickr?

Mark Evans
Director, Community

By Mark Evans

With Microsoft making a hostile $45-billion for Yahoo!, one of the questions being raised by many people is what happens to Flickr.

Will Flickr be ruined by Microsoft or get some much-needed attention given that Flickr hasn’t seen a lot of innovation since it was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

On Flickr, there’s already a small group of people not happy with the idea of Microsoft being the new owner. According to Wired’s Compiler blog, “Flickr users began posting anti-Microsoft images, satirical “Flickr Live” logos and announcing they will abandon Flickr if it falls into Microsoft hands, fearing such a move would mark the beginning of the end.”

A contrasting take on Flickr’s future within Microsoft is put forth by Thomas Hawk, who suggests a Microsoft-Yahoo deal would being a positive move for Flickr. Here’s what he had to say:
“Flickr comes out a clear winner. Already king of photography at Yahoo after swallowing Yahoo Photos, there is no question that Flickr would become the photosharing site of choice for Microsoft. It would be one of the crown jewels of an acquisition in fact.

More than just having more marketing muscle to push Flickr from an advertising perspective, Microsoft owns the desktop. By creating easy and convenient ways to publish your photos to Flickr directly from the Vista OS, Microsoft would push Flickr from an earlier adopter photogeek sort of site into the mainstream.

Vista already has introduced for the first time photo tagging to the masses, this would tailor well with Flickr whose photo site and especially photo search relies greatly on tagging.”

More: ZDNet suggets Flickr Video will be launched soon, although Yahoo isn’t saying anything yet. Paris Lemon hopes Flickr Video is launched before a deal for Yahoo is completed.

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