Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it?

Re:Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it? by brandnewlow on Friday January 09, 2009 @06:22PM (#427290)

It's a great idea.

One reason why:

Blogs and news services are pulling more and more photos from Flickr. If you can give the photogs on there an easy way to just let people come and get their pictures, without having to track down permission from them, you'd make life easier for the blog editors.

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Re:Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it? by brk on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:27AM (#427903)

Blogs and news services are pulling more and more photos from Flickr.

Because they don't want to pay for them on sites like iStockphoto that already exist to give photographers a way to market/sell their products?

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Re:Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it? by brandnewlow on Sunday January 11, 2009 @02:12PM (#429417)

Nope.

Because istockphoto doesn't have anything resembling "news" photos. Whereas Flickr's got lots of photos with real people in them.

I've used istockphoto extensively. it's all models, references, icons etc.

If I need a decent picture of the Mayor of Chicago at a recent festival, there might be 10 on Flickr.

There won't be any on istockphoto.

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