A web site that which once claimed to be the UK’s first social network is changing its focus. Friends Reunited will become a “digital scrapbook” where users can collect their own pictures along with copyrighted photos, through a series of deals with image libraries.
The first two libraries to sign up, the Press Association and photographic archive company the Francis Frith Collection, collectively will contribute some 350,000 photos into the service, and a spokesperson says that there will be “more images and deals with more libraries added in the next few months.” Altogether the site will offer users 10 million “memories” in the form of 6 million photos, 2 million events and 2 million places to tag alongside their own content.
You can read more in an article by Ingrid Lunden published in TechCrunch at http://goo.gl/7HXHP.
