My Flickr Complaint

April 18, 2008 – 10:24 am

Some whine about movies on Flickr, others about the switch to Yahoo IDs, I simply want better rendering of transparent PNGs as JPGs.

By Casey | Posted in Dispatches, Technology | Comments (0)



Flickr Adds Video

April 14, 2008 – 8:22 am

I asked for it in 2004, before YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, or Revver appeared on the scene, and before MySpace and Facebook added video sharing as a feature. Four years later they finally added it. Neil Rickards should get credit for creating the theme of ?long photos? (Neil called them ?moving photos?). And anybody who was [...]

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Add Tags To Flickr Photos While Uploading Via Email

August 27, 2007 – 8:26 pm

The short story is that you simply put ?tags:? in the subject or body and anything that follows becomes a tag. It’s worth remembering that the Subject of the email becomes the title and the body becomes the description. The longer story is at Flickr.
tagging, flickr, uploading

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Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookie and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Sandwiches

August 5, 2007 – 12:21 pm

So once again, my husband called on my assistance with a Friday Food Fiesta challenge. This week’s theme was cookies and biscuits. I scoured my pantry, but alas, like Old Mother Hubbard, my cupboards were practically bare. The one interesting thing I did have was a bag of Hershey’s white chocolate chips. [...]

By Sandee | Posted in Kitchen | Comments (0)

Surf ‘n Turf Salad

May 20, 2007 – 12:54 pm

My computer geek husband, who I do adore, joined a Flickr photo group called Friday Food Fiesta. A new theme is announced every Friday, and everyone contributes a single photo that illustrates that theme. The first themes he contributed to were burgers and pizza, but when salads came up, he needed help. Luckily for him, [...]

By Sandee | Posted in Kitchen | Comments (1)



Customer Relations Done Right

May 17, 2007 – 6:38 pm

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is one of my favorite photographers on Flickr. Her photos are amazing, and it’s clear a lot of people agree. That’s the easy part. Then two problems arose: First Rebekka discovered that somebody was selling her photos for profit, and she posted about it. The community was shocked, and angry. And then, and [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy, Technology | Comments (0)

Flickr Interstingness Patent…Application

November 30, 2006 – 12:53 pm

It’s old news (Boing Boing and Slashdot covered it a month ago), but Flickr’s patent application is a bit troublesome. It’s not that they’re trying to patent tagging (they’re not), it’s that they’re trying to patent the things library folks have been wanting to do (and in some cases actually doing) for some time.
Media objects, [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (0)

Flickr To Get All Geotaggylicious?

August 28, 2006 – 12:22 pm

When Dan Cat gets cagey, and people are talking about mysterious map buttons in Flickr a guy has to wonder…is this why the lines between Dan’s hobby and day job are so blurry?
update: Ryan Eby points out that the map is live!
Dan Cat, flickr, geobloggers, geotag, geotagged, photos

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The Perils Of Flickr’s ?May Offend? Button

August 1, 2006 – 12:52 pm

Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: ?as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy, Technology | Comments (6)

The Flickr Is A Series Of Tubes

July 20, 2006 – 9:37 am

It’s hard to be angry with Flickr about unexpected downtime when they post funny things like this.
For my part, this is more than just an excuse to link to DJ Ted Stevens’ Internet Song (yeah, ?the internet is a series of tubes?), it’s an excuse to point out how Flickr apparently knows how to speak [...]

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Flickr Goes Gamma

May 16, 2006 – 4:52 pm

Just when we started wondering how much longer flickr would be beta, they announced gamma.
The new design had me scratching my head for a bit, but I’m coming to like the changes. The menu/toolbar in the header has direct links to a lot more stuff, while the stuff in the footer has many fewer links. [...]

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This Is What Social Software Can Do

March 13, 2006 – 12:41 pm

The FlickrBlog reports this message from Gale:

People have been submitting good humpback whale fluke shots to a group called Humpback whale flukes. I volunteer at Allied Whale which holds the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog and I was able to make a very exciting match with one of the whales that was posted on the group by GeorgeK.

George saw this whale in Newfoundland in the summer of 2005. It matched with HWC#2943 in the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catolog ….. this whale was seen only once before in March 1984!!! on Silver Bank (the breeding grounds North of the Dominican Republic).

This is what flickr has the power to do.

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (3)

Tags Done Right

March 6, 2006 – 12:43 pm

Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell.
We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. But that flexibility, if poorly implemented in our software, can interrupt the very patterns [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (2)

Gallery to Flickr Migration Tool

January 4, 2006 – 9:43 pm

For those people still using Gallery, here’s the last straw: Rasmus Lerdorf got to playing with the Flickr API and quickly wrote up a script to migrate his photos from Gallery to Flickr. He’s didn’t post a script or anything, he’s just saying it’s easy to do.
A lot of things are easy to do, of [...]

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Social Software Works For Organizations Too

January 2, 2006 – 6:02 pm

Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn’s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: ?Flickr has got to be the best $24.95 we’ve ever spent.?
Why?
Micah Sifry explains in a story at AlterNet that MoveOn had been soliciting photos of events from members for some [...]

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