Flickrvision is a great site that lets you see what is being uploaded to Flickr and from where in the world it is being posted from almost in real time. The site is powered by Google Maps and so the world map is fully zoomable. Hours of fun here, it is very addictive to watch.
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Microsoft formally launched HD photo, a new file format for digital photography this week. HD Photo is a far more efficient codec than the current defacto standard JPEG which has been with us since 1992. HD Photo is capable of file sizes half that of JPEG and also offers a choice between both lossless and […]

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This is a pretty cool vid of a game of pool in slow motion captured by a high fps (frames per second) camera. The video also contains a few scenes that were captured using a thermal imager, it’s interesting to see the temperature of the felt increase as a result of the ball movement over […]

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Flickr has quintupled (thats 5x) the monthly upload limit from 20MB a month to 100 MB a month for free accounts and now has no upload limit on its Flickr Pro accounts. Get those digital cameras out people and snap away! 
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