I scored an invitation to the beta of PhotoPhlow.com via a badge at Joi Ito’s blog and discovered an amazing story linking back through the history - yes, history - of Web 2.0 photo-sharing phenomenon Flickr.

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Interesting piece in Wired about 3D printers – machines which spew out actual objects according to a set of data.

These 3D printers are currently enormously expensive ($20,000+) and can only produce objects of a certain size and type. The 3D file sizes are also huge – many gigabytes – but it’s interesting that increasingly everything essentially can be represented by data.

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You might have read what has been happening recently between Prince and his legions of online fans. Rolling Stone summarised it nicely with their headline “Prince Attempts To Alienate Entire Fanbase In One Fell Swoop”. In short, Prince has hired a “web sheriff” to issue cease and desist letters to Prince fan sites demanding that they remove all photos, artwork and fan-submitted, Prince-related pictures.

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