Flickr Launches Search Map of World Photos

Historic Henry Peter Bosse images show river in 1880s

(NEWSER) - Few have heard of Henry Peter Bosse, but his 19th-century photographs have earned a home in a federal vault—and a single album is worth $4.5 million. Sotheby's recently appraised the album, which illustrates the changing Mississippi River in the 1880s, and its value had quadrupled over 20 years. But the album's history isn't so illustrious: It spent more than 50 years on a dredge vessel where it appears to have been barely noticed, the Star Tribune reports. More»

From NBC's site to Twitter lists, little need for actual TV

(NEWSER) - With watching the Olympics on actual TV being so, like, 2008, TechCrunch presents the best places to keep tabs online:

• NBC Olympics : Lots of scores and news—and if you’re a premium cable customer, 400 hours of live events.
• Vancouver 2010 : The host committee’s site has the usual stuff, plus maps and more local flavor.
• Facebook : The news, plus status updates and photos from athletes.

From Facebook to bank accounts, online afterlife a thorny legal area

(NEWSER) - These days grieving relatives have a new problem to contend with: managing the Facebook, Flickr, and eBay accounts of the dead. As people trust ever more of their lives to the Internet, from email and online banking to identities on Second Life, very few have considered what exactly will happen to all that online data when they die, the Washington Post reports—and new businesses are popping up to help the heirs of the dearly departed access everything from password-protected photographs to money. More»

Search engines switch India to stricter settings

(NEWSER) - Indian computer users enter "sex" into search engines more than users in any other country, but Internet firms have moved to deliver only sanitized results to the nation. Yahoo's search engine and the Flickr photo-sharing site have switched the entire country's setting to "safe search" only, as has Microsoft's Bing, a Guardian investigation finds. More»

Lawmakers look to require label on digitally altered photos

(NEWSER) - Amid the uproar over fashion photos whose models are airbrushed to teeny-tiny perfection, French politicians are proposing a law that would require any such photos to include a health warning, Reuters reports. Digitally altered ads, press photos, campaign art, packaging, and art photography would have to include “Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person” or be subject to a fine. More»