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flauntR: An Online Photo Editing Alternative

I use Flickr just about everyday to store and manage my photos. I was happy to see Flickr add photo editing tools by integrating with online photo editing software, Picnik. On thing irks me about the integration though is the fact that as a Flickr premium user I still DO NOT have full access to all of Picnik's offerings from within Flickr itself. I really feel that as part of the partnership and integration Flickr should have reconciled which users are premium Flickr users and done a revenue share to enable them full access to Picnik. That said, I have been on the lookout for an comparable alternative to Picnik for more sophisticated photo edits and updates to save me the hassle of firing up Adobe Photoshop. I recently found flauntR, a free online photo editing site create by India-based DeviceDriven, which offers a number of similar photo editing features.

Microsoft Bids On Yahoo, Facebook Numbers Released, OpenSocial or OpenGadget?, No Tipping Point?, DEMO08 & Technology Tomorrow

Photo of the Week: This week I spent time at the DEMO08 conference in Palm Desert, California and I snapped this shot from my hotel room balcony.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 02.03.2008

Microsoft Backs DataPortability, Facebook Translates, Digg Tweaks, YouTube Mobile, Widget Kings, Mahalo Examined & Davos

Photo of the Week: The weather in California has been a bit moist this past week as this photo by Michael Risenhoover shows.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 01.27.2008

MacBook Air Unveiled, Yahoo Goes OpenID, Sun Buys MySQL, VC Funding At High, Facebook Plaxo Rumors & the 2007 Crunchies Awarded

Photo of the Week: Gabe Rivera of techmeme shows off his award for best bootstrapped startup at the 2007 Crunchies (more Crunchies coverage below). Photo taken by Zivity.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 01.20.2008

Hasbro Should Just Buy Scrabulous Already

Are you a Scrabble fan?  Scrabble, the popular word game trademarked by Hasbro, Inc. has been the topic of debate recently as an online alternative was created to operate as a Facebook application called Scrabulous. Scrabulous was created by Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla within the last six months already has over 600,000 active daily users. Amazing! According to an ABC News report, Hasbro is outraged about the creation of the copycat game and as AllFacebook reports they are trying to force Facebook to remove it. Am I missing something?

The Untold iPhone Story, Gates CES Keynote, Ways To Broadcast Yourself, Facebook Update Fatigue, The 24 Hour .com & Saving Your Eyes

Photo of the Week: I snapped this photo of my to do list earlier this week while staying at the W Hotel in Silicon Valley.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 01.13.2008

Apple Movie Rentals, American Content Producer Trend, Facebook Translations, Kayak Sidestep Analysis & 2007 Logo Design Trends

Photo of the Week: 'Tis the season for some holiday lights and this home with over 200,000 lights was quite the site. Thanks to Terren for snapping this photo and pointing out this tacky lights tour video on YouTube.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 12.30.2007

22books To Share & Find Book Lists

I seem to have too many books in my reading queue and not enough time to read them all. However, you might be on the other side of the fence with this one and looking for new books to read. 22books might be a place to look as it offers users a place to create, find and share book lists.

NASDAQ Internet Index, Facebook's Ad Plan & China Strategy, Google To Bid On Spectrum, Health 2.0 & Working On What Matters

Photo of the Week: There seems to be a bit of a chill in the air and ice is probably on its way as we enter December.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 12.01.2007

Amazon Kindle Going E-Book, Facebook Looks To Buy, Barack Cleantech VC Fund?, Workaholics Help, Design Trends & Presentation Tips

Photo of the Week: I spent the weekend in Chicago after another successful TECH cocktail this past week and snapped a shot of the new Playboy building the home of Playboy Enterprises and Northwestern University among other tenants.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 11.18.2007

FNN: Facebook Updates Newsroom Style

With the Facebook news wall users get an aggregation of friend updates to keep tabs on whats going on in their social circle. Wouldn't be great if you could just watch your Facebook news wall just like the evening broadcast news on television? Well now you can, sort of...

Poll: Thoughts about Google's OpenSocial API?

This week the Web development community has been buzzing as details were released about a new widget API called Google OpenSocial. Google officially launched OpenSocial and provided this video to further explain its actions. I have been trying to get my head around what it really means and would like to open it up to my readers for input via a Somewhat Frank poll to get your take on OpenSocial.

Facebook Launching Ads Outside The Network?

Facebook has been blanketing the headlines for months now and it has heated up more with Mark Zuckerberg speaking at TechCrunch40 and the Web 2.0 Summit in the past few weeks. Mark recently hinted at an advertising platform launch coming soon and my friend Nick O'Neill of at AllFacebook has been reporting on for the past few weeks. Apparently the Facebook ad platform will not just focus on the Facebook space but will also go outside of the Facebook network and place advertisements on the Web which will place it in direct competition with Google Adsense and other similar services.

Microsoft Buys Into Facebook (Is it Overvalued?), StumbleUpon Adds Search, Webshots Sold, UK Bans File Sharing & Startup and Bootstraping Tips

Photo of the Week: With Halloween right around the corner this photo seemed appropriate.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 10.28.2007

Facebook Web 2.0 Summit, iPhone Platform, Microsoft 100 Startups, Flickr Maps, Vimeo HD & Social Porn Law?

Photo of the Week: These colorful orbs were all over the SF MOMA on Wednesday evening as MySpace.com held an event to celebrate their invasion of San Francisco with the opening of an office in the area.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbit: 10.21.2007