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I’m at SXSW, former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick is here as well and just tipped me off that for the past 14 hours, Flickr’s tag search hasn’t been displaying recently uploaded photos in search results.

I just verified this by uploading my own photo and tagging it ’sxsw’. You can view the photo if you know the link to it, however a search for ’sxsw’ doesn’t display this. Clicking on the tag ’sxsw’ also yields no results for my account in spite of just tagging the photo. I also checked to see if the problem was just for ‘sxsw‘ by doing a search for ‘music‘, and the same problem occurs — the last photos tagged with ‘music’ are from yesterday.

Marshall likely noticed this because he’s blogging from SXSW for SplashCast and initially reported stats on how many photos have been tagged recently with ’sxsw’ — and definitely sounded as though he was going to report this daily.

Editor’s Note: This post by Steve Poland, whose blog Techquila Shots brainstorms web start-up ideas. Steve is at SXSW and would love to chat with anyone — feel free to email him.

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I’m at SXSW and Ben Brown, co-founder of CNET-owned Consumating, just announced that they will be releasing “every single line of code” for Consumating within the next month.

Consumating is a dating and social networking website for “geeks” that CNET acquired back in December 2005.

Ben said that the community is the true value of Consumating and that the community has really built Consumating into what it is — and basically that he’d like to give it back to the people. He continued to say that since Consumating.com is focused around a specific niche community, he’d like to see other communities embrace the open-sourced code and use it.

There will be a new position at Consumating called an ‘Open Source Manager’, whom will manage all of the open source — and roll good changes back into Consumating.com itself. Ben said the code will be licensed under The MIT License.

My initial thought was whether Consumating would be offering a hosted solution of their back-end for websites to easily implement — such as allowing the music blog Pitchfork to create their own dating / social network for their passionate music readers. Ben said they aren’t planning to do that, but that anyone could take the source code and create that solution — “maybe I’ll do that.”

Editor’s Note: This post by Steve Poland, whose blog Techquila Shots brainstorms web start-up ideas. Steve is at SXSW and would love to chat with anyone — feel free to email him.

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YouTube has removed all of the offending videos that led a Turkish court to order that YouTube be banned from the country earlier this week, and the ban has been lifted.

This sets a terrible precedent for YouTube, who should have stood their ground. The original videos were sophomoric jabs at Turkey from Greeks, none of which should have led to a ban in the first place. For YouTube to agree to remove the videos shows that they’ll be soft on these issues in the future, and it will lead to a never ending series of headaches for the company. This is also yet another blow to freedom of speech in Turkey.

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