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Ben and Don MacAskill are the founders and CEO & President of Awesome, the company that owns SmugMug and Flickr, among other brands. They specialize in online tools and platforms for photography and have changed the way photographers store, share, and sell their work. A few years ago, when they purchased Flickr from Yahoo, they discovered something unexpected. 

In this Tugboat Institute® talk, Ben explains that he and Don were aware, of course, that Flickr owned and stored tens of billions of photos. But they soon also discovered that galleries, museums, and archives all over the world had also uploaded tens of millions of rare, unique, and historic photos. The power and impact of the collection struck them as important and absolutely unique, so they created a plan to ensure that these historic images never got lost to humanity. They created the Flickr Foundation. As they build the structure of this Foundation that is still only about a year old, they are focused on the goal of not just preserving the collection, but preserving it for the long term.

Listen and be inspired by this ambitious and generous initiative.

Ben and Don MacAskill are the founders and CEO & President of Awesome, the company that owns SmugMug and Flickr, among other brands. They specialize in online tools and platforms for photography and have changed the way photographers store, share, and sell their work. A few years ago, when they purchased Flickr from Yahoo, they discovered something unexpected. 

In this Tugboat Institute® talk, Ben explains that he and Don were aware, of course, that Flickr owned and stored tens of billions of photos. But they soon also discovered that galleries, museums, and archives all over the world had also uploaded tens of millions of rare, unique, and historic photos. The power and impact of the collection struck them as important and absolutely unique, so they created a plan to ensure that these historic images never got lost to humanity. They created the Flickr Foundation. As they build the structure of this Foundation that is still only about a year old, they are focused on the goal of not just preserving the collection, but preserving it for the long term.

Listen and be inspired by this ambitious and generous initiative.

Tugboat Institute® member Don MacAskill is the CEO & Chief Geek of Awesome, which owns the brands SmugMug and Flickr. Don founded SmugMug with his brother, Ben, and together they bootstrapped their online photo sharing company, purchased Flickr from Yahoo, and built their company into an industry leader. All this from the heart of Silicon Valley and in the highly competitive and fast-paced tech industry. Fast and frequent innovation is critical to survival in this industry, especially when you are self-funded and competing against giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. 

In this Tugboat Institute talk, Don shares his approach to innovation. Awesome exists in an environment where the pressure to adopt new ideas, one after the other, and stay ahead of the curve is intense, so he has found that it’s important to have some clear guide rails, to help them avoid falling into the ‘innovation trop’ and following fads that do not last.

Listen and be inspired by Don’s insightful and effective take on innovation.

Tugboat Institute® member Don MacAskill is the CEO & Chief Geek of Awesome, which owns the brands SmugMug and Flickr. Don founded SmugMug with his brother, Ben, and together they bootstrapped their online photo sharing company, purchased Flickr from Yahoo, and built their company into an industry leader. All this from the heart of Silicon Valley and in the highly competitive and fast-paced tech industry. Fast and frequent innovation is critical to survival in this industry, especially when you are self-funded and competing against giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. 

In this Tugboat Institute talk, Don shares his approach to innovation. Awesome exists in an environment where the pressure to adopt new ideas, one after the other, and stay ahead of the curve is intense, so he has found that it’s important to have some clear guide rails, to help them avoid falling into the ‘innovation trop’ and following fads that do not last.

Listen and be inspired by Don’s insightful and effective take on innovation.

On this episode of The Photography Lounge, your host Alastair Jolly has a conversation with the wonderful Flickr Pro, Alan Schaller.

Alan is a London based photographer who specialises in black and white street photography. His work is often described as abstract and it incorporates elements of surrealism, geometry, high contrast and the realities and diversities of human life.

He has been featured in publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post and he regularly has exhibitions in galleries such as Saatchi Gallery, The Leica Galleries in London and throughout the US.

As well as a wonderful Ambassador for Flickr he is well known as an Ambassador for Leica Cameras. 

Join Alastair and Alan as they discuss Alan's approach to Street Photography during the Pandemic and find out more about Alan's gear and style. We also get a little insight into the foundation of Street Photography International and what's ahead in the future for Alan.

Watch Alan's SmugMug Film here: https://youtu.be/v4H6eWE1

SPI Awards 2019: https://youtu.be/OzdCtzXpcXA

Learn more about Alan:

• Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanschaller
• Website: https://alanschaller.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alan_schaller/

Find out all about the features SmugMug & Flickr have to offer at:

• https://www.smugmug.com/
• https://www.flickr.com

Follow SmugMug:

• Facebook: http://facebook.com/SmugMug
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/SmugMug
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/smugmug
• Blog: https://news.smugmug.com

Follow Flickr:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flickr/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Flickr
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flickr/
• Blog: https://blog.flickr.net

Welcome to RAWtalk Episode 246! This week we start off with Jared's guns...We then jump into photo news which leads us to today's topic: Nikon D5 or Sony a9? And finally, we wrap up the show with another Flying Solo questions & answers segment. As always, thanks for watching!

00:00:18 - Stephen’s Back!
00:00:46 - Where Are They Now?
00:02:03 - Where’s the Fro?
00:04:01 - What’s Coming Out This Weekend?
00:07:28 - Gear of the Week
00:09:57 - Photo News
00:12:36 - SmugMug Acquires Flickr
00:17:40 - World’s Fastest Camera Car...It's a Lambo!
00:20:51 - World’s Fastest 75mm Portrait Lens
00:24:29 - Soviet Spy Camera Ring For Sale
00:26:25 - Nikon Pro Mirrorless Coming Soon!
00:28:02 - New Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Mirrorless Lens
00:31:11 - Street Brawl at the Fro Factory
00:33:04 - Naruto Court Case Closed - FINALLY!
00:34:04 - Naruto Calls In…
00:37:26 - Music Label Disses Concert Photographer
00:40:43 - a9 or D5? Which Took The Picture?
01:04:05 - Flying Solo

SmugMug, the photo sharing site, is acquiring the long dormant photo enthusiast site Flickr from Yahoo. Jefferson Graham lays out the challenges for bringing Flickr back from the nearly dead on Talking Tech.

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In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast I'll show you how to take advantage of Lightroom's Smart Collections in your Publish Services so that you can create one Collection and publish the same photos to multiple social sharing sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Smugmug.