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Flickr soon to be part of Microsoft?

Yesterday it was announced that Microsoft makes $45 Billion bid to buy Yahoo! Flickr, the popular photo sharing service started in 2004 in Canada and was acquired in March 2006 by Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! merger already brought some changes like the required use of Yahoo! IDs and censorship issues. Merging Yahoo! services like Flickr, del.icio.us and Yahoo! Groups with existing Microsoft services will certainly bring more radical changes. The Flickr community is already reacting and if Yahoo! accepts the bid, we will probably see much more resistance.

Media coverage:
Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Flickr Users Consider Their Potential Microsoft Overlords
A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
Euro lawyers see tortuous road ahead for Microsoft’s Yahoo! bid
Flickr Rebellion Brews at Specter of M$ Acquisition
Flickr users panic over Yahoo!
The truth about Microsoft’s attempt to take over Yahoo
Microsoft Investors Don’t See Gains From Yahoo Deal
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

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February 02nd 2008 Posted to microsoft, photography

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World Wide Panorama Community theme online

Four times a year panorama photographers, professionals as well as amateurs gather to take panorama images, usually about a certain theme. This summer the theme was ‘community’ and while we were traveling Denmark I came across a good panorama location for this theme.

Click here to see my panorama of Normandsdalen – A Nordic Community in Stone.

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July 13th 2007 Posted to panorama, photography

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Amazing demo of Photosynth

At this years TED Talks Blaise Aguera y Arcas who is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs gave an amazing demo of Photosynth.

It won’t work on a Mac but at least it shows some interesting new developments (finally the powerful 3d card is good for something).

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June 05th 2007 Posted to blogging, microsoft, photography, technology

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Liberation Day in Almere

Today, liberation day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag) is being celebrated as each year on May 5 in the Netherlands to mark the end of the German occupation during the Second World War. Each Dutch province has a huge festival and the one for our province – Flevoland – is happening here in Almere. For the first time since we live here, I went out, visited the festival and took some photos which you can see on Flickr. At 3 different stages in town, bands and DJs were playing. There were approximately 15.000 visitors.
Flickr collection
see all of the images on Flickr

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May 06th 2007 Posted to almere, photography

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Save the Pavilions in Almere

The pavilions in Almere are a museum and educational center for modern contemporary art. After more than 10 years, their existence is now in danger since the city wants to cut back funding and tear down the buildings. For our town of 160.000 inhabitants this would be a great loss. Just like the modern architecture, modern art is something that should have its place in our city.

This weekend Museum De Paviljoens had an action weekend to raise awareness and gain support. We went there twice and took some photos, which you can see on Flickr. The current exhibition with work of Barbara Visser is excellent. Her art is mind boggling and inspirational. If you live in the area or visit the Netherlands, come and see it. It is only 30 minutes from Amsterdam and the exhibition is open until the 15th of April 2007.

After this weekend I would not only plead to save this museum but instead suggest that it gets a chance to grow larger.

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March 11th 2007 Posted to almere, art, culture, photography

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Almere architecture – part III

Today we went for a nice walk through the woods close to the Kemphaan in Almere, where I took some new photos of the Eksternest nature eduction centre.

Architect: C. Nilsson, B. ten Brinke, 70F Architecture, Amsterdam
Built in 2003

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November 25th 2006 Posted to almere, architecture, photography

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Wet Wet Wet

It is wet in Holland. After weeks of extreme drought, it is now raining a lot and the sewage system often can’t handle it. Took some snapshots with my N70:

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August 11th 2006 Posted to almere, n70, photography

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Signs of Heerenveen

We visited Heerenveen this weekend and apart from the Oranjewoud area, the most remarkable were 3 street signs:

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August 06th 2006 Posted to fun, holland, photography, signs

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A Latin Breeze in Amsterdam

On Sunday I went to Amsterdam to take pictures at the Summer Breeze Latin Festival 2006 in Amsterdam, a yearly festival at the Openluchttheater in the Vondelpark.

This was the first time I used the Nikon D200 at an event like this. The Nikkor AF-S DX 18-200mm lens turned out to be great for this occasion, allowing both detailed close-up shots as well as wide-angle scenes of the crowd and stage. In total I shot more than 550 images and for the first time ran out of battery close to the end because I used the internal flash as fill-in very often. Next time I will use my external Metz flash and I also bought a 2nd Nikon battery today.

Summer Breeze Latin Festival 2006 images @ Flickr

Technorati Tags: latin, music, vondelpark

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July 31st 2006 Posted to amsterdam, music, photography

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World Wide Panorama Gardens online

In the period of June 20th through 25th, hundreds of VR photographers joined the World Wide Panorama effort shooting panoramas of their interpretation of the theme ‘gardens’. In all, over 300 photographers submitted their work for the project.

World Wide Panorama: Gardens

The World Wide Panorama team is proud to announce the World Wide Panorama: Gardens website is now open to the general public.
More information: http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp606

I participated for the 6th time in the World Wide Panorama project. All of my panoramas can be seen here.

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