Our client Kijiji is currently hosting a Pet Fitness Sweepstakes to help pets get in shape for the summer (did you know that 44 percent of dogs and 57 percent of cats are estimated to be overweight or obese?). If you live in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, or Houston, enter a photo of your pet for the chance to win a $1,000 pet supply gift card! Your pet will also be featured on Kijiji’s pet slideshow (above) for the chance to become Internet famous. So what are you waiting for? Visit Kijiji and send in a pic of your animal companion!
I noticed something very intriguing about an ad for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the 6 train this morning — the photo caption was credited to a Flickr user! (I was so suprised, I even documented it with my bad-quality BlackBerry camera.) It turns out the Met held a Flickr photo contest, and the winning picture was featured in the ad.
In an interesting coincidence, Getty Images just launched a new Flickr partnership today. Getty can now contact Flickr members and ask them if they want to share their images for use in a special Flickr-branded Getty collection. Flickr has long been a great place to find beautiful photography, and it’s fantastic that its users are getting the respect they deserve from the photo industry.
Last night, Maria and I attended the first NY Tech Meetup at its new location at FIT. It was packed with over 700 New Yorkers of the geeky persuasion, and it was nice that everyone was able to fit into the auditorium. We got to check out some cool new tech startups, my favorite of which was enjoysthin.gs, a very visual bookmarking service (like delicious, but prettier). We did a quick video interview with creator Ted Roden, so hopefully you’ll be seeing that up here very soon!
Google Image Labeler is my new favorite online game. It allows you to play a word-association game in partnership with other live users, and it helps Google improve the relevance of image search results. Everybody wins!
Here’s a cool article from TechCrunch about how the world is quickly becoming geo-coded through a handful of location-based social communication networks. Ever tweet about a specific location? Upload photos on Flickr with a location tag? Post reviews to Yelp? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you are taking part in some of the simplest forms of geo-coding.
