From Thomas Hawk's Blog
Jim Goldstein has an interesting article out over on his blog this morning entitled, "How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This Weekend." The article references a third party, MyxerTones.com who utilized Flickr's API to put everyone's Flickr photos up for sale this weekend, according to Jim.
Read Full account Here.
J.C. Hutchins response for myxer.com
J.C. Hutchins said...
Hi, orb9220! The recent activity of my company, Myxer.com, was one of the catalysts for Jim Goldstein's masterful article. As he points out in his post, we immediately disabled our Flickr integration when we learned our service was distributing photos beyond the Creative Commons license.
Myk Willis, Myxer's CEO, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about our Flickr integration, and the creative and philosophical intent powering it. It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5bws7f
I encourage you and your audience to read it, if only to learn more about the integration, to understand that Myxer did not sell any of the photos accessed via the Flickr API, and to see what Myxer has learned from this experience. As Myk writes in his post, these are "trying times for a massive number of creative people whose footing has been destabilized in this era of instant, zero-cost distribution of digital content on the internet."
We're all finding our footing here, and we appreciate the insight you and other bloggers are bringing to the conversation. If you or your readers need any further information about Myxer or future iterations of our Flickr integration, please feel free to contact me personally.
Best wishes,
--J.C. Hutchins
Social Media Marketing Manager, Myxer.com
jc.hutchins@myxer.com
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Hi, orb9220! The recent activity of my company, Myxer.com, was one of the catalysts for Jim Goldstein's masterful article. As he points out in his post, we immediately disabled our Flickr integration when we learned our service was distributing photos beyond the Creative Commons license.
Myk Willis, Myxer's CEO, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about our Flickr integration, and the creative and philosophical intent powering it. It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5bws7f
I encourage you and your audience to read it, if only to learn more about the integration, to understand that Myxer did not sell any of the photos accessed via the Flickr API, and to see what Myxer has learned from this experience. As Myk writes in his post, these are "trying times for a massive number of creative people whose footing has been destabilized in this era of instant, zero-cost distribution of digital content on the internet."
We're all finding our footing here, and we appreciate the insight you and other bloggers are bringing to the conversation. If you or your readers need any further information about Myxer or future iterations of our Flickr integration, please feel free to contact me personally.
Best wishes,
--J.C. Hutchins
Social Media Marketing Manager, Myxer.com
jc.hutchins@myxer.com
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