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Flickr's 'Your Contacts' Page Gets Improvements

Improved Contacts Management - Flickr Blog Yesterday Flickr released a revamped version of your "Your Contacts" page on Flickr.

Microsoft's Windows Live Social Network

I got my first invitation today to join a "network" on Microsoft's new "Windows Live" social network. Here are some of my rough initial thoughts.

What Home Entertainment Technology Will Win?

There has been a lot of new news lately around the idea of home entertainment and media and I wanted to write a post reflecting on recent announcements coming out of Microsoft on their Media Center platform in Windows 7, the new XBox 360, an increasing role for Netflix's "watch now" technology and today's announcement regarding Netflix by TiVo.

Picasa to Feature Facial Recognition Software?

Picasa Gets Smart With Facial Recognition The Inquisitr has a post out saying that at noon today Google's Picasa is going to introduce facial recognition technology and a new downloadable Picasa photo editing program beta.

Xbox 360 To Stream Netflix Movies

Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE: Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.

Getty To Sell Stock Photography Through Flickr

Yahoo! Inc. - Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.

Microsoft's Pro Photo Summit

My pal Robert Scoble has a blog post up entitled "Is Microsoft Trying to Capture the Photography Market?" Robert's post is in part a reaction to Microsoft's invite only Pro Photo Summit which is taking place this week up on Wednesday and Thursday at Microsoft's campus in Redmond. Scoble is going to be attending as am I.

Follow These 10 On FriendFeed

I've been pretty active on FriendFeed for the past couple of weeks and it has definitely become one of my new top spots on the web. In many ways FriendFeed simply replaces a lot of other sites where I was spending time in the past. It has completely replaced Twitter for me for instance and has also taken my chunk of time that I used to spend focusing on my Flickr contact's photos (I now see all of these photos on FriendFeed instead of Flickr directly itself).

Program For Stolen Laptops

I just purchased a three year subscription to