Paul Sawers - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:40:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Create Social and Interactive Images With ThingLink They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine then an image tagged with YouTube videos, audio from SoundCloud, tweets, photos from Flickr, songs from iTunes, Wikipedia pages and even links to e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay.

In just a few, painless clicks, ThingLink lets users do just that. After creating an account and logging in, the site lets you easily upload images from Facebook, Flickr, a website or your computer and then tag the pictures with rich media content. You don’t have to leave the page you’re on — all the content is embedded within the photo.

See how news organizations could have used ThingLink with this well-known photograph. (Just hover your mouse over the dots.)

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]]> Elana Zak http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/create-social-and-interactive-images-with-thinglink_b13131#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/create-social-and-interactive-images-with-thinglink_b13131 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=13131 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:20 +0000