The app will automatically search for, download and save all of the images that meet your requirements (you can specify image size and where to look for the images). Narrowing your requirements a little is a good idea, as there are over 5,000 photos available in the collection.

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There are so many people who influence us in our businesses, from the bloggers who consistently provide us with helpful information to keep our businesses growing and thriving to the people in our spheres of influence who rave about us and keep clients and customers coming our way. They help us every day, and it is important to reach out and say “thank you” every now and then.

Even when you think it will fall on deaf ears, that it won’t matter to the person, or that he or she is probably inundated with messages every day, let the person know how he or she helps you in your business and that you appreciate his or her efforts. Say what’s on your mind and make it heartfelt — because for most people, it really will matter.

Someone sent me a thoughtful thank you note a couple of weeks ago, and I have thought about her message several times since then. She said my help and support had been “wind in her sails” that week; little did she know that that note would be wind in mine for weeks to come.

Take the time to thank the people who inspire you, motivate you and teach you. Instead of passing over the comment sections of their blogs again, thinking you have nothing of value to add, let them know how their posts are making a difference in your business. With so many jerks in the world these days, it’s really nice to come across someone who actually takes the time to be, well, nice.

And, to my favorite bloggers (The Bloggess, Chris Brogan, Dumb Little Man and Gary Vaynerchuk, to name a few), thank you.

What was the most heartfelt or meaningful “thank you” you ever received?

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In the past, profiles have been structured like standard résumés, with elements appearing in fixed order: a header, a text summary, optional applications like blog links, experience, education, recommendations, and an “additional information” section with web links, awards and such.

Now, when you click on “Edit Profile,”you’ll see a four-way arrow to the left of the section names. Drag it to rearrange the sections. Check out the video to see how it works.

This will be a boon to students, who may wish to make their educational backgrounds more prominent, as well as to entrepreneurs and career changers, who may wish to highlight other parts of their backgrounds besides their “day jobs.”

LinkedIn plans to offer more enhancements to LinkedIn profiles soon.

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So, who owns your data, and who has access to it? In my latest Long View for GigaOM Pro, “Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud?” (subscription required) I take an in-depth look at the issues of privacy, security and data ownership in the cloud; the legal protection (or lack of it) that your information has to protect it from unwanted snooping; and the steps that we should all be taking to minimize the risks of our data being accessed or used in ways that we hadn’t intended.

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Om and the team over at GigaOM recently shared “7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010.” While that list of things are all well and good for our industry as a whole, I’ve identified a list of changes that web app providers could make that would make my work and life easier on a day-to-day basis. Here’s my web app wish list.

Help Me

I really like that you provide me with links to support and help from within your app. It’s great to have that available to me when I’m working with new features or have questions. But please provide contextual help for your application, or at least try to guess what I might be needing help with based upon where I’m coming from. Dumping me at an FAQ and making me search through it isn’t really the type of support I need. This type of help has been available in desktop apps for a long time now — it’s time to make it standard on web apps, too. Also, oftentimes “Help” links take me far away from my original page, so please make it easy for me to get back to where I started.

Integrations are Good — Please Use Them

I’m going to pick on new aggregator Cliqset here. Not because it’s a bad product, but because it was going through its setup process that it really hit me just how tired I am of needing to enter duplicate information across multiple sites. Like many other sites, Cliqset asked me to enter in all of my social identity identities. After entering a couple of them, I gave up. If it had given me the option to use my DandyID, it could gather all that info automatically and I would be much more likely to use the service.

You Are Not an Island

On a related note, if you have an API or are providing integrations with other tools and are going to change how your tool works, you’ve got to give us advanced warning. We’ve often built tools of our own that tie in to your tool, or use other applications that work with it. Even the smallest change in your program can break these connections.

If you integrate with others, you should know about their changes as well. When 37signals updated its login program, a ripple effect was felt throughout the web, as applications that integrated with its tools based on existing login IDs stopped working.

Easy Multi-user

If your application offers multi-user access with any level of permissions, please make it easy for the administrator (me) to masquerade as another user. I need to be able to easily test and verify that the settings I’m choosing for my users are working as I intended. Forcing me to log in and out with my user’s passwords is just crazy — let me see things as my user does with no hassles.

I don’t ask for much, really. Think you can take care of this stuff for me this year?

What’s on your wish list for 2010? What do you want from your web service providers this year?

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