Royal Family Opens Flickr Account
Rare pictures of the Royal family have been posted on the internet after Buckingham Palace opened an account on photography website Flickr.
The images of recent royal events, archive pictures of the Queen, Prince of Wales and other members of the monarchy can be seen from today.
More than 600 photographs have been added to the British Monarchy’s Photostream account. The images will be updated as new engagements and events take place.
The development follows the launch of the updated royal website, British Monarchy Twitter account last year and the Royal Channel on YouTube in 2007.
The Flickr account is timed to coincide with the summer opening of Buckingham Palace, as it features photographs commissioned for the exhibition The Queen’s Year, which opens next Tuesday at the London palace.
Royal children
Highlights from the photo website include early pictures of Queen Victoria and other leading figures from the era, images of Queen Elizabeth II as a baby and pictures of the latest royal events.
The account has been divided into two categories – the first, Royal Collection, contains images commissioned for The Queen’s Year exhibition and the Victorian pictures.
There are also behind-the-scenes shots showing the Royal household staff working at a state banquet. And there are images by photographer Marcus Adams showing royal children, from the Queen as a baby to Prince Charles as a little boy.
The Royal Family section groups pictures of the monarchy by individuals. Prince Harry is shown as a newborn baby, in the arms of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, for example. His older brother, Prince William, is pictured as a youngster with his parents and sibling, on exercise with Royal Navy in the Caribbean and meeting David Beckham in South Africa.
Source: BBC News
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YouTube Bids for Screen Dominance
According to this BBC article, The world’s biggest video site wants to dominate every screen where content can be viewed and created.
YouTube is already a leader online and in mobile and has firmly set its sights on the living room.
The company charted its course during the launch of a new product called Leanback, described by some as web video for couch potatoes.
It also unveiled upgrades for its mobile site which has over 100 million playbacks a day.
“You can start to break down the mental picture of ‘these are the videos I watch on my computer, on my tv or on my phone,’” Hunter Walk, director of product management told BBC News.
“Now you just say ‘these are the videos I watch and I watch them wherever I happen to be, or whoever I happen to be with’. We are going to have a world where people increasingly expect their content to be available to them on anything with a screen, whether that be a computer, a phone or a tv. That is the vision,” said Mr Walk.
Source: BBC News
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