I am affected by the same bug. This error message gets printed to the console:
** (gnome-control-center:11520): WARNING **: sw-client-service.c:917: Error
calling OpenView on service flickr: Method "OpenView" with signature
"sa{ss}" on interface "com.meego.libsocialweb.Query" doesn't exist
(gnome-control-center:11520): background-cc-panel-WARNING **: Could not
connect to Flickr service
Best regards,
Radek Černoch
