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Getty Images Now Offering Flickr Pics

Flickr and Getty Images announced a partnership last summer to make licensing Flickr images easy. Now, they have launched the site where users can do just that. They're referring to it as simply the Flickr Collection. The collection contains handpicked images with "an originality and authenticity rare in stock photos" in the site's words. The images come in both rights-managed and royalty-free options.

Get Your Photos on Google Maps Street View

Google has introduced a new feature for Street View on Google Maps. This allows users to submit their own photos for places Street View has on display.

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.

MySpace and HP Work on Printing Your Profile Photos

MySpace and HP have teamed up on a deal that will see HP printing technology used across multiple areas on MySpace, including all photo sections. You will be able to easily print pictures from not only people's profile photos, but ones that are inserted into blog posts, comments, messages, etc.  The first stage of the partnership is anticipated to include an HP branded print button enabling MySpace users to preview and print photos directly from their MySpace profiles.

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.

Microsoft Gets Ready to Talk Photography

Microsoft is hosting Pro Photo Summit 2008 this week, a two-day event that "brings together renowned professional photographers and industry leaders" in Redmond.According to Microsoft's page for the Summit, said industry leaders will be discussing the biggest issues that are affecting the photography industry.Keynote presentations will come from Microsoft CTO David Vaskevitch and nature photographer Frans Lanting.

Photoshop Express' TOS Gets Updated

TWIP has a post out on Adobe updating their TOS for their new online Photoshop Express product. Initially some photographers had been concerned because the previous terms of service with the online service suggested that you were signing over rights of your photos to Adobe by using the service.Adobe's TOS now reads:

Flickr Rises As Yahoo Photos Departs

Shutting down Yahoo Photos in favor of the popular Flickr service has helped lift Flickr's market share of photography traffic.

Social Photo Sharing and Stock Photography

Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog: "In 2000, I wrote an article called, 'The Five Truisms of the Photography Business', and Truism #1 is 'There are more people who have photography as a hobby than as a profession.'

Seeking One Good Digital Photography Blogger

I've decided to open one more position up for Guest Blogging on Digital Photography Blog. There are already two bloggers who will be working on it - but I'd like one more blogger to help lighten the load on them.