Tag: flickr

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Flickr Exit

Flickr cofounders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.

et tu, kellan?

flickredit

time to look into solutions to get data out of flickr before the ship sinks

Migratr

moving photos between picasa, flickr, gallery. needs to add facebook support

LOC on Flickr

That’s why it is so exciting to let people know about the launch of a brand-new pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 innovator. If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least 2 major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90% of our readers could probably explain better than me).

LOC has a blog? when can we tag the whole LOC catalog?

San Diego Wildfires

2 kml files, geotagged flickr photos, a featureserver service (fed by KML) 3 WMS layers of satellite images, and an openstreetmap overlay

The People’s 311

a public photo pool documenting non-emergency 311 conditions throughout New York City. dangling traffic signs, illegal advertising, dead or dying street trees

this would be nicer on a map that does not suck, but it’s a start.

Germany Censorship

i suspect european privacy laws will mean that the interesting stuff happens elsewhere, and we’ll see people virtually flocking to the jurisdiction that suits them. why not just offer flickr in german, on the .com domain, and sidestep this nonsense?

KML in Flickr

Will we have a KML feed that loads photos based on the viewport? Probably. It’s no coincidence that our flickr.photos.search API takes a bbox parameter for searches while Google Earth automatically added a bbox parameter to urls it loads with a NetworkLink. The intention (well mine anyway) from the start has always been that you should be able to point Google Earth directly at Flickr’s API and just let them get on with it.

flickr does kml output. a good start. now if yahoo maps started using kml. kudos to flickr for adding the KML link officially. now they only need to efficiently serve more than 20 photos 🙂

Flickr = Censorship

What’s got me pissed today is that according to Rebekka, Flickr has removed her image from their site. That’s right. Not only did they remove and kill her image and her non-violent words of protest, but they censored each and every one of us who commented on her photograph, who offered support to Rebekka, who shared in her frustration by wiping every single one of our comments off the face of the internet forever. According to Rebekka, Flickr’s explanation? “Flickr is not a venue for to you harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will send you a warning or terminate your account.” WTF?!?

what is up with that, yahoo? did the suits finally take over?