No need to pay for a high resolution shot of the Eiffel Tower, Grand Canyon, Golden Gate Bridge or a lovely sunset. Shots of these and numerous other famous landmarks, cities and places from around the world are now available free at FreeLargePhotos.com.
More than 2,600 images sized 4MP or larger are available through FreeLargePhotos.com. The site’s developer and manager, Roy Tennant of Sonoma, Calif., said, “The photos are free to individuals for personal use, but if they are used on a web site a photo credit and a link to the web site are required.” Commercial interests are charged $50 a shot if an image is used to sell a product or to promote a business or organization.”
Currently, FreeLargePhotos.com has the work of six photographers organized under hundreds of categories. Some of the famous cities and locations represented are: Paris, New York City, Washington D.C., Sydney, San Francisco, Quebec City, New Orleans, Yosemite, the Sonoma and Napa Valleys, Niagara Falls, the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains, and Banff National Park.
FreeLargePhotos.com contains dozens of shots from the countries of Canada, Australia, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, Oman, South Korea, Switzerland and Thailand. There are also shots of landmarks and scenery from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, Oregon and Utah.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
