Tom Flanagan

Technology Director – Syndicated Technology Columnist at Inman News

December 21, 2011
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Firefox lives to fight another day

Mozilla and Google announced yesterday that they had reached an agreement to extend their relationship. Google search will remain the browsers default search option for at least another three years.

“Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come,” said Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Search, Google.

In “Firefox may be down, but it’s not out“ Woody Leonhard, InfoWorld contributor, states,

“Firefox has many redeeming social values, not the least of which is its non-alignment with online advertising”. “Whether that unique position will translate into a browser that’s more widely accepted by business and consumers remains to be seen. But I wouldn’t bet against Mozilla, or its customers.”

If only I didn’t love Chrome so much…

December 6, 2011
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Real Estate Insight – 12/4/2011

Here’s the commercial-free podcast from my appearance on Real Estate Insight with Sally Lapides on 12/4/2011. The topic for the show was video marketing and features a call-in from the co-founder of WellcomeMat, Christian Sterner. Check it out!

Audio MP3

December 5, 2011
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Expert Photography

Expert Photography, a popular photography resource developed by Joshua and Michael Dunlop, reviewed one of my photographs. The photo critique was promoted via Expert Photography’s Facebook page and the analysis was based on:

  • Exposure
  • Composition
  • Post Production
  • Crop and Straighten
  • Photographic Elements
  • Style

I submitted a photograph of a stunning street art mural that I shot in San Francisco this summer on Haight-Ashbury Street. My favorite piece of the critique was:

When I first saw this photo, I didn’t like it, then I became drawn to it, and became much more interested.

I found the review to be very informative and even learned more about dynamic tension.

Here’s the photo:

Tom Flanagan Haight-Ashbury Street Mural

 

November 30, 2011
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TweepsMap

Gahlord Dewald, president and janitor of Thoughtfaucet, wrote a cool article over at Inman Next discussing TweepsMap. TweepsMap is an application that analyzes your Twitter followers and plots them on a map. It’s actually pretty interesting. Here are my results:

81% of my followers are from #UnitedStates, 19% from #RhodeIsland & 9% from #Providence.

Check out the map:



You can read Gahlord’s full article entitled, “TweepsMap puts your Twitter Followers on the Map” here.