• PayPal, who powers our pro payment system, has doubled the number of countries from which users can send payments. It now includes places like Brazil, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Russia, the UAE, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa and a ton of other countries. There’s more information here.
• We’d like to thank Steve Garfield, Zack Sheppard, Lane Hartwell, Aaron Straup and Richard Moross for sharing their work at our Apple Store Open Mic Night. We’ll definitely being doing it again in the new year.
• Eddy Joaquim (aqui-ali) is this week’s featured flickr pickr photographer in the San Francisco Chronicle.
• Miscellaneous press: Whose data is it?, Flickr Drives To SEMA In Vegas and Caterina and Stewart were featured in The Guardian’s Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special.

Photos from Michele Howley. For more, New York Post Project.