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Flickr recently launched the most awaited feature "Flickr2Twitter". This will let Flickr users to post the photos and videos to Twitter. Flickr tested this service in beta and now they launched in public. To start Tweeting your Flickr images, you should login with your Flickr account and allow twitter to post under settings tab. You don't need to give your twitter credentials similar in Twitpic. [ Read more ]

From Flickr, just use the "Blog this" button to Tweet the photo added with customized text message. Flickr uses a special short Flic.kr URL to shorten your picture URL. While creating authorizaation to post on Twitter you will generated. Using customized email address you can send a photo or video to the 2Twitter address from your mobile phones. You have 116 characters to tweet, the rest will be the URL. Image will be posted on both Flickr and Twitter simultaneously.

BACKUP ! yes the word most commonly used in online. When you are running a blog or website backuping all your resource is more important. If suppose your web page, blog or even Twitter is hacked  by some one, then unless without any backup you can'r get back your account. Having backup for your website is quite easy, incase if you want to backup all your tweets, wordpress blog posts and even bookmarks, then it's tricky. [ Read more ]

Lifestream Backup is a new service that will back up your Twitter, Flickr, Google Docs, and more. Lifestrean powerd by Amazon web services let user to backup their archives online. This site will maintain a history of your backup to your social media accounts. You can choose plan including yearly and monthly subscription for $26.95 and If you have your own S3 account it's only $15 for the whole year. You just provide with your log-in credentials for Twitter, Delecious, Wordpress, Google Docs, Flickr, and BaseCamp. Lifestream will backup all your details weekly or daily. You will be notified every time when a backup is performed via email.

Let see how to backup your tweet's. To start with you need to give your Twitter credentials and also provide the backup settings either weekly or daily. It creates an XML file with every tweet you’ve ever made. In additional you can see start and end time of your backup in history section.

Google's Picassa web album also integrates advanced search options following Google web search and video search engine. With this new improved search option you can choose the ratio (landscape, portrait, panorama). Filtering the images with small, medium, large or extra large  size is possible. Images using Creative Commons license can be filtered using advanced filter options. [ Read more ]

Click on ' Show Options ' to enable advance filter to get customized images shared by your friends on Picassa web album. You can also find Creative Commons-licensed images similar to Yahoo image search used  for Flickr images. Now recently Google image search also using Creative Commons licensed images available on search, but the major difference is Yahoo only uses images from Flickr while Google uses for images from all sources.

By divining the popular photo service with access to your Twitter stream, you can now post individual shots there right from Flickr, including a Flic.kr shortened URL.

Instead of adding a new button to do this, Flickr users simply set up Twitter as if they were adding another blog to post photos to. Clicking the “blog this” button takes you to a page where you can type in the remaining 116 characters, and see the shortened Flickr URL at the end of the Tweet.

You also get a special variation of your Flickr posting e-mail address that directs e-mailed shots directly to your Twitter stream at the same time they’re hosted on Flickr.

Only issue so far is you need to sign up for a Flickr account,  competing services, like YFrog, and TwitPic, don’t require users to create accounts. Ussually you simply create them automatically based on Twitter info.

If Flickr can work with Twitter users and make signing in with your Twitter info, that woulds be nice.

John Paul