Over the past day there’s been a little “crisis” going on over at FriendFeed. Let me introduce the contenders first:

• Kol Tregaskes, who liked a photo on DeviantArt which made it to his FriendFeed account (on June 19th!) via visualize.us
• “velonka”, the photographer of that photo and model in that photo who noticed the image on July 6th
• The picture on DeviantArt, originally marked as Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

Now, after a few weeks of no action at all, the photographer noticed the photo on FriendFeed and didn’t wait a second to rain down some foul language on Kol:

VerothicA: WHY IS MY PHOTO HERE? are you fucvking retarded? remove it now! Its for Deviantart.com members ONLY you asshole!!!! – velonka

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Yesterday we witnessed again (like before) how the real time web, with services like Twitter and Friendfeed, is able to get news out into the world in a matter of mere seconds. All it takes is a cell phone and an internet connection – and you’re good to go.

The pilots did a tremendous job bringing that plane down without anyone having major injuriues or even worse. The pilots are heroes.

I first learned about the crash by Thomas Hawk’s message on Twitter which got crossposted there from Friendfeed.

Within the first few minutes after the crash there several photos, messages, etc. on the web, while the old media was still trying to get their hosts and camera crews to the Hudson River. A Twitter search during this time resulted in more than 300 new messages about this event every few seconds.

This is one of the first photos which was captured by @jkrums and now has over 137.000 views. If TwitPic wouldn’t have gone down after everyone linked to this photo it’d probably be a lot more than that.