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karoo for me. - alphaxion

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America Online...wait...no. Prodigy! - Candace

WebTV. - Rochelle

sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time. - Tsali, The Native of FF

Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail. - Bradley McSpinn

AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it. - Tyler Hayes

First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout! - Jared Smith

wisc.edu - Dave Winer

ecu.edu - Beebo Wallace

Prodigy. - Oliver Ortega Chua

citiz.net - yagami

i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol - Cardeen Martinez

crikey, i've never even heard of some of these... - Zee.

A BBS in Morgan Hill. - Rodfather

1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984. - Don Strickland

A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

wow, very impressive Jason...and Don! - Zee.

Hotmail was my first email provider. - Andrew Trinh

aol - ♥patricia♥

mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today. - Vlad Bobleanta

I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now! - Rick Cogley

Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier) - Brandon Mendelson

AOL. - Laura B.

AOL. I shutter at the thought - BCK

PSU.edu, 1989 - Dave Roth

Toronto FreeNet. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Michigan State University - Steve Lowe

Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore. - TkFromWestSide

My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984. - Gary Walter (gwalter)

Hotmail - Tim Keneipp

Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy. - Adam Turetzky

Prodigy, then AOL - Robert Kenney

My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-) - Ladybug Heather

AOL - Derrick

<- AOL - Costa Walcott

AOL then Juno - Violet Mae Lim

drexel.edu and compuserve - Peter Ghosh

Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992. - dthree

Pixi.net - Trish Haley

I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC. - Matthew

75106,3139 - Leo Laporte

I want to say Compuserve - BASEnet

whats 75106,3139? - Zee.

74127,2227 - Christopher Barnes

aol - Computerwhiz1

Those are Compuserve addresses Zee - Adam Turetzky

AOL - Gabe Diaz

Prodigy - Nick Smith

Oof. CompuServe! - Akiva Moskovitz

ah, interesting - thanks Adam - Zee.

My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu. - Akiva Moskovitz

webtv. - Nation Hahn

Yay Nation Hahn! - Rochelle

aol - Russ Jackson

76020,702 lol, had to look mine up! - Adam Turetzky

I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally. - Bruce Lewis

netcom - Scott Slade

A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary. - Bob M. Montgomery

Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago.. - David van Sunder from Nambu

Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-) - Dan Dashnaw

I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again. - Diego Espinoza V.

columbia.edu - Morton Fox

geez... I can't even remember. - Jim Addz No Value

umich.edu - Ken Sheppardson

Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.) - Louis Gray

Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998. - David Yarnell

AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Prodigy. - Admiral Anika

tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast. - Jeff

crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though - Steve C

Probably Mindspring. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem. - Allen Blair

<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail. - Tom Horn

Compuserve was my first Internet email address. - Gary Walter (gwalter) from fftogo

email.com - Alex Scrivener

Hotmail I'm ashamed to say. - Daniel Drysdale from Nambu

web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Hotmail as well :( - Drew Lucas

Genie - Randy Caldwell

yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno! - BEX

Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin. - Mistletoe Glen

My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box. - Hiro Asari

ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol - Sharon McPherson

@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address - Bastard Operator From FF

A local ISP called Jetlink. - Stan Augustyniewicz

Alta Vista - Brent - Loving Life

My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house. - Dustin Sallings

Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that? - David Damore

Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89) - Chrimmus Tad

rocketmail.com - James Beake

AOL - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

stanford.edu - Paola Bonomo

aol - David Dudley

Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

My employer, Microsoft. 1983 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail - Monique

Hotmail. - Steven Perez

University in '94. didn't know what email was before that. - mikepk

*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet) - Tudor Bosman

Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times. - zephyrlily

deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/ - coffee

AOL of course - Keith - @tsudo

Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything! - Bryce Campbell

yep hotmail - Dobromir Hadzhiev

usa.net - Petr Buben

The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr. - Martin Bryant

Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :) - Mark Krynsky

usa.net (netaddres) - Toni @ NavinoT

On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net - Kol Tregaskes

Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server. - Ward Seward

Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular - Gee Ranasinha

Two at same time, utk.edu for work and hotmail for personal, I actually still use that hotmail acct. - Brytne from Nambu

Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk - Matt Hall

not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo - (jeff)isageek

AOL. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

yahoo - Alfredo

Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good... - Kristian Salonen

AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college. - mark

umich.edu - DGentry

cmich.edu - l.m.orchard from twhirl

Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first. - l.m.orchard from twhirl

erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr). - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face* - Iain Baker

Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think it was yahoo or usa.net - Shamir Ramjan

worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider) - Olivier

CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993 - Michael McKean

Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/ - Ben LaMothe

Compuserve, then Demon and well.com - Fraser Smith

It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone. - Dušan Šimonovič

Local ISP and then Hotmail. - Kevin Bondelli

OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now. - Lynette Young

Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail. - Ninh Nguyen

Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you. - Eric Fisher

Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER! - John Craft

yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now - brainno722 (Peter)

Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104). - George Brickner

BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number). - George Brickner

Hotmail - Damond Nollan

prodigy, if I remember correctly - Chieze Okoye

yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now - Richard Lawler

AOL, back in the day - Matthew Allen Horton

hotmail - Rudolf Olah

Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago. - Tamar Weinberg

AOL - Nurse Katie

Hotmail :( - Mitra_s

uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :) - felix

mine was hotmail too. - Thom Allen

Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection. - Matt Thompson from fftogo

Juno - Martha

Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox. - Jess Lee

Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then. - howard shippin

TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net. - Wirehead

UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP. - Fred Yankowski

MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around. - James Ferguson

I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno.... - EricaJoy

Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995 - Michael K Pate

My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993. - Lisha Sterling from twhirl

aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff. - Daniel Morgan

cix UK - John Francis

cs.berkeley.edu - Piaw Na

I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail. - Jeremy

AOL *facepalm* - Mike Lewis

I think it was AOL or Compuserve - Shevonne

AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now. - jcunwired

LOL @Leo!! - jcunwired

My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom. - Lorin Olsen

not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com - Gökmen Karasu

Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink - William Harryman

The US government. - Alex Scoble

Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail" - irfan ÖZTÜRK

Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail. - josh neff, geek at large

MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period. - Anthony K. Valley ©

AOL - I HAD MAIL! - Mona Nomura

Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net). - Beau Liening

oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back) - Jorge Escobar

uh.edu, then hotmail. - Arlan Koizumi

UUCP email on unix .. circa 86 - Peter Dawson

comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny. - mike

starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL - Mike Templeton

Mindspring.com - Darrell Bell from twhirl

hawaii.edu - Josh Haley

aol - Amber, Random Time Lord

Aol huuuh - Marie Jubin from Nambu

Admittedly - AOL. - AJ Kohn

@tamu.edu - Carlos M. Gomes

AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail - Kevin Pruett

first email account was @andrew.cmu.edu & first webmail was with lycos! - Matyjas from fftogo

USA.net - Helen Sventitsky

Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today. - Jennifer Mitchell

execpc.com. haha. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

Hotmail, and I think it was 1995. - cecily

Compuserve - Bryan R. Adams

pitt.edu, then netaxs.com. - B. Hatin

Penn State University - Ernie Oporto

My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

hotmail - Dane Findley

angelfire - Rachel Lea Fox

Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now. - Michael Fidler

Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it... - Amy H.

Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it. - Rolf Schewe

Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky... - John Blossom

AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not! - Bonnie Foster

hotmail 1995 - Muge Cerman

mail.com *shrug* XD - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail - imabonehead

Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years. - Michael Forian

My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99). - Ruud van Wijngaarden

hotmail - Bill Hice

@msstate.edu, my university in 1996? - Phillip Stewart

Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL. - John Johnson

not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Yahoo. God bless Gmail! - Özgür Akman

"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them. - Marg Uerite

it was either aol or nyonline - Lynne d Johnson

Hotmail. Still have it. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail - Nicholas James

AOL for me... horrible. - Michelle

Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it... - Rich

yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail - Yant

Me -- Sigma 28/70 2.8, Sigma 70/210 2.8, Tamron 70/300, Nikon 50 1.8, Peleng 8/3.5 (also have 18-55 kit lens that sits on the shelf) -what can I say -- I am poor/cheap - Brian Sullivan

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The D40 kit 18-55mm plus a Nikon 24mm f2.8 (manual focus on the D40 unfortunately but still worth the effort). - Fraser Smith

Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 24mm f/1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, Nikon 50mm f/1.8, Nikon 85mm f/1.8, Nikon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5. Thinking of dropping the needle on a Sigma 18-50 f/2.8. I do love my primes. - cecily

Nikon 10.5mm ƒ2.8, Nikon 24mm ƒ2.8, Nikon 50mm ƒ1.8 + kit 18-55mm which usually sits at home - Tsega Dinka

Nikon 18-200/3.5-5.6, Nikon 50mm 1.8, Nikon 70-200/2.8. The last one is my best one but I rarely end up using it since it's a bit large/heavy and the 18-200 works well enough in most situations. Need a macro at some point but holding off for a bit. - Gus Perez

Just added the Sigma 30mm f1.4. It's my new favorite lens. - Tsega Dinka

I'm thinking of getting the Sigma 50mm f1.4 after reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp...">reading this</a> but it costs more than the Nikon 50mm f/1.4. I wish I could get my hands on one as a rental before I made the commitment. - cecily

Wow, that sigma 50 does look enticing. I wouldn't mind upgrading my nikon 50 f1.8 with it. Let me know your thoughts if you end up getting it. - Tsega Dinka

24-120 mm/f.3.5 and 50 mm/f.1.8 - Tamon Yanagimoto

I have a 18-55mm kit that came with my D40x and then I added a 18-200VR. I have my eye on the new 50mm 1.4 now... - Tony Vota

24-120 and 50 - Tamon Yanagimoto

50mm and the kit - Joseph Ferguson

Looks like that's correct, at least for now. http://www.google.com/support... - Juan Pablo González

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Even more bizarre, Chrome doesn't support Google toolbar so it doesn't even sync with Google Bookmarks... - Fraser Smith

I think that, the point is, these things may come. It's a first beta after all. - Fraser Smith

I think they will come in a different flavor of Chrome, I mean, not from Google, because the first addon that I wanted to install was an ad blocker, and that's not in Google's interest to provide. - Juan Pablo González

You don't need them :) - Svartling

@Svartling ... i neeeeeeed to Stumble :) - Chris Farrugia

Incredible novel; it's a must read like Blade Runner is a must see. - Blake N. Cooper

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i concur with Blake. and with big brother. - grant fox

hehe.. I have not seen Blade Runner either... I'm a bad geek - Stefan Hayden

1984 is great, though you'll probably feel like you know what's going to happen when reading it. It's just become that ingrained in our media now. - xero

I find in general once you read one distopia you've read them all... but I suffered though Lord of the Rings are reading a lot of other fantasy so I'll probably be fine. - Stefan Hayden

but Orwell is a cut above most. must read, don't think you'd be disappointed. - grant fox

I just finished it a month back. It starts really slow and descriptive but packs a punch... very poignant. - Alan Le

Orwell's writing is unmatched but by a few: it is definitely worth the time to read. Just don't watch the movie. That would be almost as bad as watching The Fountainhead instead of reading the novel...almost. - Blake N. Cooper

hey, i liked the fountainhead movie! i mean ayn rand had control over the movie, and she was steadfast about it. book is better though, but isn't that always the case? OK, fight club was better movie than book, although book was good. - grant fox

Oh, watching the movie after reading the book is fine, but, for me, doing the reverse is definitely not the way to go (for some books/films, of course): the director's vision and imagination replace my own: I can't think of many things worse. Who wants to be reading a book when the main character's face--Norton, Pitt, Cooper--is already etched into the experience? But that's just me :) - Blake N. Cooper

again, i concur with blake. - grant fox

You haven't read 1984? Unbelievable! You're not a geek at all. - Fraser Smith

I think in come cases seeing the movie before the book is a good idea. I saw Forrest Gump before reading the book. I liked the movie and then loved the book. Where as if you read the book first you often don't like the movie. It is fair to say though that it changes the way you read the book, which is sad. - Stefan Hayden

"Brave New World" is also excellent, in the same vein. - Michael Nielsen

"Given that, at least initially, this Getty Collection will only include 2,500 images I seriously wonder how meaningful or significant an effort this will be. It would seem to me that 2,500 images would hardly represent a meaningful economic effort to Getty, Yahoo or the photographers involved. It also makes me wonder how the community at Flickr might react to this deal. With likely far more photographers at Flickr interested than might be room at the inn for, I would suspect that many Flickr photographers who are not selected for this program might feel slighted at not being included. Even if the initiative only included a single image from 2,500 Flickr photographers, I'd think that there would still be many unsatisfied and very talented Flickr photographers left out in the cold." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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I would assume that it would take a lot of time and effort to pull together such a collection. It will be an ongoing process but they have to start somewhere so an initial offering of 2,500 images seems reasonable to me. - Fraser Smith

Fraser, the problem that i forsee is that a lot more flickr photographers will want to be involved and want to make money than there is room for. There are so many amazing images on Flickr and I think some very talented photographers might get frustrated at not having as meaningful of an opportunity as regular Getty photographers. - Thomas Hawk

Let's hope that the initial 2500 is only a pilot test and if successful, Getty will expand the offering and inclusion of many more photographers in the future. If the Flickr images 'brand' turns out to be popular a seller, than Getty would be silly not to expand it significantly. I'm sure they are staying mum on what the future holds until they know how well these images will be received by their high end client base. - Jeff P. Henderson

Just received a clarification email from Bridget Russell at Getty Images. According to Russell, the 2,500 photos at launch number that was presented today by Dube is not in fact correct. "You have in fact been given an incorrect number. We intend to launch our Flickr collection in the coming months with tens of thousands of images, with thousands more added to the collection each month." - Thomas Hawk

That is much better news. Sounds like they may already know that the images they choose to sell will be good sellers. - Jeff P. Henderson

Thanks for the update Thomas...sounds much more inciting now. Looking forward to see how it all unfolds. - Justin Korn

glasses make people look smart - Ryan

Thats pathetic. I was really unimpressed with the phrase "Flickr corpus." - it says a lot about how they think of photos and photographers. They're just trying to co-opt social media before it demolishes their business model completely. - Owen Byrne

I'm sure a lot will be interested but, they've got to start somewhere and sometime so I assume they have to draw the line at a certain number and, as you've now said, expand after that. It'll be interesting to see what physical characteristics will be required of a photo before it will acceptable. How many Flickr photographers upload full resolution images? In my experience, many resize before uploading. Most stock libraries tend to reject anything that wasn't taken with a hi Megapixel count DSLR. ... - Fraser Smith

I think it's great. I use Getty a lot, and the reason is simple: their tools for discovering and finding images make it quicker and easier than spending hours trawling through Flickr. Their tagging and categorisation is consistent, which means I get fewer false results, which means less wasted time - and my time is expensive. So a system which pulled images from Flickr and ensured that the tagging and categorisation was consistent and professionally done would be something well worth paying for. - Ian Betteridge

It was a show of hands thing so very informal. Could be 7 or 8 to 1 as well. Clearly the Pro crowd here though uses Canon over Nikon. Other manufacturers were not even mentioned. Strictly a Canon vs. Nikon show of hands thing. - Thomas Hawk

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Wow wouldn't have thought it would be an informal landslide.... - Snay Trivedi

I am wondering if the D3 will slowly get the Pros to switch to Nikon or if the cost of glass will prevent it - William Reveal from feedalizr

Microsoft keeps talking about the importance of backup and photo storage at this conference. Wonder if they have something interesting in this space coming down the road. - Thomas Hawk

How were conference goers selected? It doesn't suprise me that Canon shooters outnumber Nikon shooters but that ratio seems very skewed. - Brian Sullivan

I think Pros still clearly prefer Canon. - Thomas Hawk

"Pros" needs some definition - Brian Sullivan

more PC users than Mac too, correlation? - dbcohen

That's because you're all lemmings. *ducks and runs* - cecily

So having a Canon makes me a lemming? I'm sorry that's the height of ignorance. - Mike Lewis from Alert Thingy

I knew I should have brought my hammer to work with me! :P - Mike Lewis from Alert Thingy

PC users make smart choices in cameras, too. *hides in bomb shelter* - No FB

Canon and Nikon are equally good for Pro use. I know many who use Canon and many like me who use Nikon. Some argue the glass for Canon lenses is superior. Perhaps. - Photo Larry from twhirl

When I was researching to buy my first DSLR, the consensus I found was Canon for pros, Nikon for amateurs. That was anecdotal because that's what everyone I talked to said was the practice, not necessarily the way it should be. - Gregory Pittman

Canon is a MUCH larger company than Nikon. However, I just didn't like the feel of their cameras, and I prefer Nikon glass to Canon. That's what works for me. - William Beem

I love how competitive it has become. We all win as long as these companies put out great products! - Mike Lewis from Alert Thingy

canon has been the industry standard for forever so it isn't any surprise at all. - Damien Franco

agree @william - Alexander Rode

That is quite a difference in preference. I also like Canon products. - James Mowery from twhirl

for the last few years canon has been killing nikon at the high end digital range. nikon has been working hard to catch up but the damage may have already been done. both companies make great cameras today and will continue to do so for years to come - sam b-r

Should asked about D3 vs Cannon 1 DS MK3 and what they think. Scott Bourne just switched to Nikon: http://twipphoto.com/index... - Roberto Bonini

Wow, looks like Canon wins! - Susan Beebe

I use/love Nikon, but I don't care what people have...as long as it takes pictures. - Kreg Steppe

My guess is it's about the same ratios among us amateurs using pocket sized cameras as well. Just spent sometime in BestBuy stores. Couldn't help noticing most people walk out with Canons. - shelisrael1

Wow, you mean I can be happy because I own a Nikon and I favor the underdog at the same time. Cool!. - Dennis E. Hamilton from twhirl

I use Canon; it just works for me. YMMV. However, Canon's wide angle glass is not the greatest so I'm starting to look elsewhere for alternatives. The 21mm f/2.8 Distagon is insanely sharp but it's no longer in production and copies are priced into the stratosphere. - Jauder Ho

hmm, that adds a new wrinkle to my decisions. One of the benefits(so I was told) of the Nikon is the ability to use the same lenses through the years? Personally I like Zeiss lenses, so whomever has those I tend to go w/. - clarke thomas

nice post, making my decesion easier - Ryan

I chose Canon for two reasons. The first was that it felt natural in my hands. The controls seemed to be where I would want them. The second (and perhaps more important) was that two of my friends friends have Canon. It's great going on a shoot and having double the arsenal of lenses. But I think both are great choices and the competition makes for better equipment for everyone. - John Wright

Hmmm.. I agonized for weeks over what DSLR to purchase for my first one. I wavered back and forth between Canon and Nikon. Then, I went to the nest camera store here in Austin and ended up buying a.... Sony. It was the best bang for my buck and with the Minolta lens options available out there I have been very pleased with my decision. Of course, I'm no pro. - Jeff Jones

@shelisrael1 - P&S cameras are a different world. The margins are razor thin and Canon is larger than Nikon; better able to absorb the costs. Nikon's recent statements indicate that it wants to focus on the higher end market. Given it's position against Canon, that's a wise move. It can't complete as a commodity. - William Beem

I'd assume there's some selection bias in the attendees. - Eric P

@ Mike Lewis, see Canon people can't even take a joke. I'm brand agnostic, and have even recommended Canon cameras to people who have asked. So dismount from that horse, if you don't mind. :) - cecily

@shelisrael - I prefer Canon's point and shoot cameras to Nikon's (and just about everyone else's). The reason I didn't get a Canon SLR when I was in the first in the market? Because I have ginormous hands and the Rebel XT felt tiny in comparison to the D50 I eventually bought, and because I couldn't afford a 30D or 5D. - cecily

We chose a Canon for our first DSLR on you a recommendation from a pro photographer. - Robert

I'm not buying that poll. Maybe Canon has turned into Comcast and stocked the room? - ThePicMan

And most "pro" drivers drive trucks and buses, but I'll stick to my BMW thanks. OK, not a brilliant analogy but everyone knows that Nikon has been playing catch up on the pro photography front. They have the line up now but the existing pros still have the legacy gear. it's going to be a long time before the balance shifts (if it does). Also, they used to say that nobody got fired for buying IBM, isn't that a better analogy on the photo front? - Fraser Smith

Strange how a Pro camera poll has spawned so much debate about P&S and Prosumer models. - ThePicMan

@clarke thomas - Zeiss has several lines of manual focus lenses that fit the Nikon and several other mounts. See http://twurl.nl/x2p15o. However, they do not have one that directly fits a Canon which will require the use of an adapter. On the flip side, due to the large diameter of the Canon lens mount, it is possible to use lens from quite a few vendors although you have to test for clearance from the mirror. - Jauder Ho

Personally, I'm waiting to see if Zeiss will make an updated version of the 21mm Distagon. www.16-9.net is a useful resource if you are interested in lens comparisons. I would also add that the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 looks to be a pretty impressive lens too. - Jauder Ho

However people walking around taking pictures of buildings in London (or elsewhere) with camera phones get away with it? Explain that? Both devices take pictures, ok a proper camera is a million miles better than a camera phone but they still do the same thing at the end of the day. It makes me want to strangle myself!!! - Nick Lewis

I'm off to China next week for a month. I'm starting to think that I'll have less chance of being harassed on the streets of Shanghai than I will in London. - Fraser Smith

PicsNick or NicksPics or, er, can't think of any more yet - Fraser Smith

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nickimage.net - david

Cheers! Mind you I am just going to focus more on my main business site now - Nick Lewis

SceNick ? - Fraser Smith

Is the "everyone" tab that useful? I was rarely able to use it for anything purposeful so far, tho it is sometimes interesting to watch to see how fast the system updates. - Philipp Lenssen

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When I first started out, it was useful to see how people were using FF, as well as to see if there were any random conversations or feed postings I could crash in on. I think once you build up your network, there's not much value to it, but the initial value is still there. - Mark Trapp

I rarely use it. But it's one of those things that I'm glad to know it's there. - Chris Rossini

There is too many conversations in other languages for me to understand a lot of the stuff in the "everyone" tab. I'm not really complaining about it. People should be able to converse in whatever language they want, but I think that this is a big reason why the "everyone" tab isn't used that much by most people. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I use it in conjunction with filtering to restrict it to one service - say, Googlereader shares or blog posts. Turns up some interesting stuff, sometimes. - Tom Landini

"Everyone" tab is like "stumble upon", when you are idle, keep looking and might find something interesting :) - Rohit Srivastwa

I'd say 2 to 3 times a day. First I filter by service, browse a few pages, then switch services. Takes about 20 - 30 minutes. - Bwana ☠

with a http://twitturly.com/ -like buzz-detection for urls, friendfeed-comments and google-reader-shares it would be a lot more useful, - Max Friedrich Hartmann

I rarely use the Everyone tab, I would say probably a couple of times a week to see if anthing I have missed is going on! - Joe Dawson

seldom. too many languages I do not understand and not filtering for it. - Nicole Simon

every now and again. It's like the urge to open a door on a moving train, and then slam it shut again... - Iain Baker

Rarely - April Buchheit

I am going there to find someone who speaks the same language with me, we may become friends, English is not my native language. - K.D.

Never used it... not even once.... not even when I first joined and followed no one. - Paula Hawk

When I'm testing to see if FF is refreshing. - EricaJoy

I have never used it. Proud to say so. - Baard @ Pixum

Every now and then, if I find something interesting. - Josh Jenkins

Very, very, rarely. - Fraser Smith

When I want to find something local, I'll search for "Denver" or "Denver + mac-n-cheese" - Ginger Makela Riker

never - Ashton

actually, quite often. it helps me to plug into the noosphere. - Benedikt Koehler

often, but it makes the missing language filter pretty important. - Steve Isaacs

Never. I just do searches with "who:everyone" - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Never. My friends tab is noisy enough as is. - Tsega Dinka

Sometimes, when I need a five-minute-break and something to distract me. - Andrea Sturm

Everyday. - Robert Scoble

Everyday. - Mitchell Tsai

I use it, or actually I use the same thing on NoiseRiver to track questions and problems people are having with NoiseRiver, so that I can help better :) Sometimes, when it's the same news that cycle in my friends page, I go there to discover new ones :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

A lot (+with search) - Peter Stuifzand

Occasionally. I would use it every day if it had the "best of" filter that surfaces the most interesting posts from all of FF. Same with search. - Joe Lazarus

+1 for I would use it every day if it had the "best of" filter but however i like it and i use it for search - Alessandro

Not so often. I usually search for a term that interests me and find people to add that way. - Colby Olson

It's interesting to watch occasionally, sometimes I actually find things to comment on or like. - xero

this is just ridiculous. - Stefan Hayden

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<"happy ending" joke here> - Paul Reynolds

are they hiring? i know, i know... - Cee Bee

Ooookay... There's a Simpsons episode that comes to mind... - Robert Blum from Alert Thingy

Is that where they perform cunning stunts for... - Fraser Smith

Well they do make a oil for high mileage engines....... - Tony C

they've got a few job postings listed... (made you look) - Russell Holliman

LOL...have you seen their logo?! http://www.theperfectphit.com/ - JA Castillo

Hilarious! You know what's even more funny? Someone is going to make a lot of money off of that place. Geeze. - Candace

I can set up a Flickr service on my feed using anyone's username with no authentication at all. That users photos will then be published on my feed. For Example, I use the name "glenelg" in my flickr URL http://www.flickr.com/photos... . I reset my Friendfeed settings and mistakenly used "glenelg" as the flickr id. "glenelg" is actually a completely different user. They didn't post any images but, clicking on my Flickr logo took me to their Flickr page. This implies that, as long as you know a user name, you can attach anyone's photostream to your Friendfeed. Shouldn't Friendfeed be autheticating Flickr accounts? - Fraser Smith

Wow, nobody cares. - Fraser Smith

and old people :) - Dave Gray

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and fat kids! - Michelle Marie Miller

Breakfast is for champions. Jack in the Box Chipotle Steak Burrito FTW! - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

What did breakfast do to you? Land on your shirt? - Yolanda

A toast and coffee will get me going! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Are you kidding? Breakfast is the BEST! - Thomas Hawk

"this message brought to you by the luncher's association of america" - Cee Bee

learned in Japan: tofu, small piece of fish, 2 vegs, sometimes some rice, roasted green tea - Maureen

I usually only eat breakfast on the weekends when I can hit up a really good restaurant (the Dish in Seattle is a personal favorite). - Akiva Moskovitz

Nothing better than the perfect omelet...mmmm - Jeremy Hall

I Can't live without Breakfast mate. - Parth Awasthi

have you ever tried Bacon!? It's the best! - Nathan Rein

I second the bacon comment above - Mistletoe Glen

1/2 calories of the day should come from a high carb breakfast - otherwise the metabolism changes and you WILL become FAT. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Not when its lunch... breakfast for lunch is the best! - Russell Holliman

Mmmm... all day breakfast. - Fraser Smith

Accelerando is truly mind-blowing and a must-read for fans of The Singularity! Viva Charles Stross! - Siddharth Deb

I do like The Singularity but I tried to read Halting State and couldn't get past the writing in Second Person. - Stefan Hayden

I loved Accelerando... I've yet to begin Halting State - Andrés David Aparicio

The Halting State was great. As all the other Charles Stross books, for that matter :-) - Stelian Iancu

Great book, just finished it for the second time. Haven't read Halting State yet. - Fraser Smith from twhirl

I'm just about to get his new book: Saturn's Children. Also, the new Neal Stephenson book due later this year seems to be really good. - Stelian Iancu

75% for me... kinda sad. I was close on most that I missed. :( - Stefan Hayden

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70% for me, I second guessed myself on a bunch - Adrienne Van Houten

85%...and the funny thing is that I waffled on 2 of the 3 that I got wrong. Darn! - Dawn M. Armfield

100%, so I definitely hit "Like" - RAPatton

70% for me...jeez I suck...granted I moved to the States when I was 11; but still I am American....it's how I identify myself and believe it - Snay Trivedi

95%. I misread one of the questions. *sigh* - Mark Trapp

80% and I'm not a citizen of the US. - Morton Fox

0%. I misread all of the questions - Dan Kaplan

100% - https://www.iterasi.net/user... - Oliver Ortega Chua

Q: What did Susan B. Anthony do? A: Hid John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. LOL oh *that's* why they put her on a coin! - Karim

At least I can say I was good in math and science. This was embarassing! - kbourke

50% for me. I'm from Portugal :P - Ricardo Vidal

80% I second-guessed myself out of two of them. I hate it when I do that. - Nicholas Sanders

Yes, I just did it for real :) - Jonathon

55%. Spanish here. - Paulo Nuin

60%. i am not Spanish, I am not Portuguese; i was born in NJ - edythe

95%. I missed the one about the number of amendments. - Chris Johnson

95% Missed first line of the Constitution... D'oh! - Sprague D

Did better than I though I would:70% - Grant Bierman

@Jonathon, BTW, congrats! - Sprague D

@ Sprague - Thanks - Jonathon

Missed year Constitution was written. Hey, at least I would get in! - Candace

Nailed it: 100% - Mistletoe Glen

@edythe I'm from NJ too! I'm in hackensack now - Stefan Hayden

75%... but I only missed the hard ones ;) - Russell Holliman

my wife just got 85% - Stefan Hayden

70% and I'm not even American! Damn that western influence! - Rahul Das

35% .. seemed more like a high school history test than anything to do with citizenship .. and since I didn't take the class, (in the US, at least) I failed ... - Andrew Perry

80% I always think the constitution was written in 1776, I should know better by now. - xero

100%. Okay, so I'm a history nerd. - R. Francis Smith

95%... for some reason, I thought that the President Pro Tempore of the Senate was next in line of succession. - Roger Benningfield

65% which isn't too bad considering I'm not a citizen and didn't do any preparation. - Fraser Smith

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