At the SES New York session "Successful Tactics for Social Media Optimization" Liana Evans, Director of Internet Marketing, KeyRelevance spoke about video sharing and reviewing sites.

SES New York is here again, and WebProNews is there to bring you reports and videos from the Big Apple. Enjoy our coverage this week.

Despite the fact that social media advertising has yet to hit its stride and is taking some lumps for low click rates when compared to high pageviews, it will succeed. Social media is a different type of advertising platform from information-oriented websites and the two should not be compared.

You have a Facebook profile with a lot of connected friends. You share your interests and personal information with those friends. You also have a LinkedIn profile with just as many connected contacts with whom you share your job related information. All your pictures are in the hands of Flickr and your Twitter account tells your friends what you are up to on an hourly basis.

Flickr has recently added nofollow tags to the links present within its Web site observed Jeff Muendel & Brian Brown. This change came to light during a review of a Flickr account. The picture portal has long been considered one of the most attractive social media entities amongst few others for improving inbound links to a given site.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can expect to see fewer links throughout Flickr.  The photo-sharing site recently added nofollow tags to most external links, making them pointless as part of an SEO strategy.

Bashing Yahoo has become one of the easiest activities in the world.  Flickr is still loved, however, and may, in fact, be one of the few things standing between Microsoft and its acquisition of Yahoo.

Boing Boing is out with a post this morning, "Some Flickr users wary of a MSFT takeover."

Every so often, we get to write about Google teaming up with some important entity (such as Columbia University or the U.N.).  Yet now it’s (sort of) Yahoo’s turn, as Flickr has partnered with the Library of Congress.

Outside WebProNews’s home office, it’s semi-cloudy, a bit damp, and somewhere in the 40s.  So if, like us, you’d prefer a nicer scene to look at, consider dropping in on Flickr’s Best of 2007 events.

Television networks and sports leagues are pretty vigilant about protecting their content, and have gotten fairly nasty about it lately, especially in relation to the Internet. That righteous indignation doesn’t always go both ways, though, as these same entities can be lax when it comes to use of other people’s content.

Alrighty then. I’ve added photos to Flickr from day two of PubCon. Here are a sample.

PubCon is great excuse to test out my new digital SLR camera. Here are a few photos from my Flickr account–there are 70+ photos in total from day one.

As any thermometer will tell you, it’s December, and just in time for everybody’s holiday pictures, Flickr and Picnik have unveiled a new photo-editing application.

Gap has partnered with Yahoo for its new online ad campaign at gaptidings.yahoo.com. The site lets users upload and post their own video holiday greetings along with viewing videos from other users.

What a great idea for an event organizer… I’ve often wondered why event planners don’t come out with "official" tags for people to tag entries on blogs, photos on flickr, videos on youtube etc… (many people, including yours truly post photos and create our own tags) but here’s a cool idea that I never thought of.. what about networking groups on LinkedIn, facebook and others?

That’s exactly what Nokia is doing for their Nokia World event… attendees can coonect by being accepted into these special groups… nice idea!