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• Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage

  Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of storage so that users can upload images at their original resolution.

• Facebook, Twitter called out for deleting photo metadata

  Photographers turning to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote their work may be losing the legal rights to their photos because the sites are deleting the images' metadata.

• Flickr bug makes users' private photos public

  Flickr users are livid over a recent bug causing their private photos to be made public.

• Samsung boasts 100 million Galaxy S smartphone sales

  Sales of Samsung's two Galaxy S smartphones have topped 100 million since the first version sold in May 2010, the company reported via its Flickr page.

• Australian War Memorial targets social media

  The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has turned to social media in a bid to explain the ANZAC story to younger generations.

• 'The Hobbit 2.0' -- How mobile technology would improve J. R. R. Tolkien's famous work

  "The Hobbit," J.R.R. Tolkien's famous story of which the movie version opens Dec. 14, was first published in 1937. The world of Middle Earth was set in an indeterminate time, but looked remarkably like an idealized early 19th-century England, though well-stocked with wizards, dwarfs, elves, dragons, trolls, goblins and of course hobbits. But techwise, it was, and is, the Stone Age of Middle Dearth.

• Israel, Palestine take fight to social networks

  As Israeli and Hamas forces continue to clash, firing rockets on each other, they've also launched a war of hashtags, English-language tweets and videos on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr.

• NYC developers to hack new photo apps

  Hoping to spark some entrepreneurial creativity in the Big Apple, online tools provider Aviary has organized a New York City event for developers to hack together new photo-based applications.

• Google Gmail snafu lesson: Backup, backup, backup

  Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.

• Flickr user says site deleted 4,000-picture account

  A Flickr user says the site accidentally deleted his account -- with more than 4,000 photos on it - and can't recover it.

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  Flipboard for iPad is much better now

  Clearly, I was in the minority when the Flipboard iPad app debuted last July.

• Flickr revamps photo page

  Flickr has given a makeover to the layout of its site's photo display page, making the default picture size larger, revamping the navigation scheme and consolidating capabilities and information under fewer menus and sections.

• Adult students think YouTube and Flickr more useful than younger students

  Adult students are more likely to think YouTube and Flickr are good for educational purposes than high school and primary students, according to research conducted as part of the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution.

• Yahoo could open access to Flickr, other technologies

  Yahoo might open access to a broader range of technologies beyond just search, a company executive said.