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Facebook Introduces User Photo Comments
In another of the ever-expanding information-sharing features added by Facebook, the social networking giant has recently announced a global roll-out of a new feature that enables people to use images as "comments" to other people's Facebook posts.
According to a report from CNET, Facebook has added a new...
Facebook to Jump on Photo-Sharing Bandwagon
In a development seemingly timed to respond to Twitter’s announcement in June that it will be improving its photo-sharing tools, Facebook, too, is planning to launch a new app for photos soon.
Facebook’s photo app would reportedly be a mélange of several others available today, such as...
Weighing Costs vs. Benefits of Social Media at Work
Social email software vendor Harmon.ie recently conducted a survey on how social media platforms affect workplace productivity. Overall findings? Facebook causes a 1.5 percent loss in total employee productivity. And, 60 percent of work interruptions are instigated by social media distractions.
Harmon.ie has taken these findings and qualified this two-percent loss is actual cost. Based on a salary of...
From the Ashes: The Rise of a New Photojournalism
Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today's photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry.
BREAKING NEWS — Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to this year's health-care reform debate, has died following a long and gradual illness.
The profession was approximately 150 years old...
Social Media: Don’t Be Left Behind
Social networking websites are the talk of the town, but how can they help your business?
Supporters exalt it as the great advance in communication. Detractors consider it a waste of time. Like it or not, the phenomenon of social media empowers the public at large to capture and disseminate information immediately.
But how do all these technological advances affect the photographer? Is the growth of social media killing our business? How do these changes affect the amateur?...
