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Flickr uses Flash to display the photos, so you can add notes to them. Notes are litttle squares with text underneath, that render directly on the photo. Makes for great annotating. When the mouse is over the photo you see the squares, when the mouse leaves the picture, they fade away. See this and this.

Also, there is a Linux uploader for Flickr available here.

Flickr is also cross platform and cross browser.

It's so much nicer hosting your photography on a big powerful website. No worries about how popular your work is, other than how how fast you can fill your monthly quota. I've had great luck hosting with Flickr (one Gig upload per month for paying accounts, no storage maximum). And people browsing my collection don't affect my on-line gaming.

Of particuarly interest to /. readers are probably those sites with open, thriving, growing APIs. smugmug's got one, as does flickr.

The result, of course, is tons of user-created uploaders, organizers, applications, and even sister web services. Pretty sweet, if you ask me, and lots of fun. There's not many things more rewarding than a customer discovering the API and coming up with something brilliant.

Disclaimer: I co-founded smugmug, so bias is present, but I've been a geek my whole life, so open APIs still get me excited. :)

Apparently, the main idea behind it is the slideshow - makes perfect transitions when every "squared circle" is identically cropped.

Other than that, I don't get the 'point' either.. just something to do, probably.

Like a few others have said, I highly recommend Flickr.

I have a paid account, and it's well worth the money. It's the only online service I've ever paid for, and I don't regret it.

You can check out my photos if you want. Interested in what's going on in a Science and Tech magnet high school?

Like a few others have said, I highly recommend Flickr.

I have a paid account, and it's well worth the money. It's the only online service I've ever paid for, and I don't regret it.

You can check out my photos if you want. Interested in what's going on in a Science and Tech magnet high school?

Like a few others have said, I highly recommend Flickr.

I have a paid account, and it's well worth the money. It's the only online service I've ever paid for, and I don't regret it.

You can check out my photos if you want. Interested in what's going on in a Science and Tech magnet high school?

Could somebody explain this to me, though?

They're circles in squares. Um. Cool?

I tried out Flickr, and signed up for a year about an hour later... It has an amazing simple interface for organising/tagging etc.

Better still though, is a published API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

The best usage of this i've found so far is Colrpickr: http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/index.php?group= flickrcentral

Check out these pictures of us currency under IR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariusm/6294539/in/po ol-make/

Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.

Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.

Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.

Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.

Please don't refer to "us" as "consumers". We're people, plain and simple. Some of "us" even create stuff without the luxury of being part of a huge corporation. Please go buy Make magazine, or visit a library or something.

after cutting through all those middlemen bloggers incestuous links

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91116329@N00/sets/153 327/

Test subjects reported to be cows let loose in the city.

Test subjects reported to be cows let loose in the city.

I made some bracelets and a necklace from CAT-5 cable for some geek friends of mine who were getting married, and then discovered ThinkGeek do ethernet bracelets. But ThinkGeek only use the inner strands, I made mine chunkier and multi-coloured by chopping up three lots of sleeving.

Put in a nice presentation box with an inscription to 'My Favourite Twisted Pair'. Geek joy.

Pics here which I should have made a bit brighter...

Provide me with a working flash example that at least matches google maps functionality and I may reconcider, regardless of how easy/hard to write.

OK. That application has all the visual appeal of Google Maps, just a different back end. I should probably get bonus points for including a site which was mentioned in the article, but you really don't have to bother. Really.

And 99% penetration?

OK, 98%. My bad.

I would like to confess that the cat sitting on my lap caused all errors in both this the above post.

you said "what we need is more competition". How do you think this is going to happen?

Here's the problem: our country's broadband infrastructure is owned and operated by a couple of corporations who own all the pipes to people's homes. I don't have a problem with corporations building out infrastructure and seeking to make a very lucrative buck off of it. This is what they do. This is free enterprise. Free enterprise is a good thing. Making money is a good thing. However, and understandably enough, local governments just handed them out permits to dig in our streets to lay their pipes without any attempt to negotiate a future "pipe-sharing" plan with supporting infrastructure for competing businesses to offer content/services/data over those pipes, after they'd recouped their costs and made profits to the tune of $X amount, or after Y years of sole operation and ownership. At the time, we didn't really think in terms of data. Fair enough.

We are at a turning point in history, where we now have the ability to change this.

Contrary to what the incumbents would have us believe, municipality-driven broadband infrastructure would, in my opinion, become the ultimate enabler of free enterprise from the private sector in data, media, and communication SERVICES.

Municipality-driven WiFi is just ONE step in an overall encouraging direction.

Municipality-built broadband infrastructures, beyond providing the ability for said municipality to provide very basic connectivity for free or cheap to its constituents, also provides an opportunity to welcome the private sector to compete on an equal footing. The infrastructure must simply be allowed to evolve to allow for mostly automated ways to "share the pipe".

A WiFi system can be easily extended to enable such sharing. So could a fiber-optic network.

Consider today's "sharing" alternatives in the DSL field: it's bleak. My only real DSL alternative is my local Telco, Verizon. Thankfully, I'm able to get service from EarthLink at about the same price point as Verizon, and instead of getting mere connectivity with the insanely useless MSN premium package, i get stuff i actually find useful, such as Mac OS X Address Book synching with my earthlink online address book, which is tied into the challenge-response-based spam filtering. But here's the problem though, while EarthLink is competing on services, it can't compete with Verizon on speed, because they're only able to resell Verizon's DSL connectivity to me, and from what i've heard, we ain't looking at a big margin here.

I want hundreds of EarthLink's competing on both speed and services.

In the case of Muni WiFi, I could for example get free basic connectivity throttled at lower speeds from the City, with no-other services, and justify spending money with fine services such as knowspam.net to protect myself from spam, flickr.com for photo sharing, TypePad for blogging, Rojo.com for news reading, Prodigem.com for Torrents creating/seeding, .Mac for reliable WEBDAV hosting, some packaged-deal from EarthLink, and/or hundreds of cheap services which may be useful TO ME. There's a lot of innovation on the Internet, many of those innovators are struggling to find sustainable revenue models.

Such a broadband scene will also open the doors to triple-play packages: data, media, communications over a single pipe. Many competitors, the best few ones would win, the customer wins.

Right now, in my area, Verizon and Adelphia are the big winners. I, as a consumer, am not. As far as i'm concerned, these fsckers have no business offering internet services, what the fuck do they know abo

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I keep mine filled with my art. So there are ceramics, neon, and plasma in my cube.

I keep mine filled with my art. So there are ceramics, neon, and plasma in my cube.

I keep mine filled with my art. So there are ceramics, neon, and plasma in my cube.

read the itty-bitty print of the two newspaper scans in tfa here and here (I tried to get the text, but it's a paysite) and you'll see this does NOT apply to joe tourist, cellphonecameras, or anything like that. This applies to COMMERCIAL photographers, wedding photographers et al. You can debate how great that is on it's own, but it's nothing out of the unusual, I know you need a permit to take wedding photos in the public parks here in Milwaukee. The law generally is such that these photo-takers don't detract from others' enjoyment of the park, but this article says that security guards were stopping anybody with a tripod, even when the park was otherwise completely empty, and giving them leaflets that cited copyright protection, which like a lot of leaflets, was kind of glazing over a more complex subject. hilarity ensues.

read the itty-bitty print of the two newspaper scans in tfa here and here (I tried to get the text, but it's a paysite) and you'll see this does NOT apply to joe tourist, cellphonecameras, or anything like that. This applies to COMMERCIAL photographers, wedding photographers et al. You can debate how great that is on it's own, but it's nothing out of the unusual, I know you need a permit to take wedding photos in the public parks here in Milwaukee. The law generally is such that these photo-takers don't detract from others' enjoyment of the park, but this article says that security guards were stopping anybody with a tripod, even when the park was otherwise completely empty, and giving them leaflets that cited copyright protection, which like a lot of leaflets, was kind of glazing over a more complex subject. hilarity ensues.

No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?

When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.

And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own decked out office,
or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.

I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.

No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?

When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.

And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own decked out office,
or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.

I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.

No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?

When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.

And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own decked out office,
or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.

I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.

No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?

When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.

And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own decked out office,
or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.

I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.

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In seeing this irony I had to destroy it... But at least I got a screen cap of it. But there is a Band called Blink 182 for those that do not know. And I think they have done fairly well themselves

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveward/

Incidentally, he researched this very carefully and the type face is exact (found interviews with LucasFilm folks where the font are discussed.) He also did very meticulous work getting the perspective of the text, the color and the leading correct. It's not the real thing, but it sure looks like it.

thanks for playing. You read it well: 20Mbits/sec DOWN and 1Mbit/sec UP. No cap. and that's for 30 Euros per month.

The service comes with free telephony to any french landline (calls to mobile phones cost something), and very cheap international rate, like 3 eurocents to europe.

Once you've got all that, you can pay an extra monthly fee to get hundreds of TV channels. With 20Mbits/sec ... that should do it.

All of this is given to you thru Free.fr triple-play box, the FreeBox. My Mom's been with them for a couple of years and has the original, more clunky incarnation of today's sleek freebox. Here's a picture of it.

One of the biggest problems with the current AT-keyboard layout is the ordering of digits on the numeric keypad.

I don't disagree with you, but my biggest problem with almost all computer keyboards is that they have numeric keypads.

I use a mini keyboard, because I can center the alphabetic keys right in front of the monitor, and I can reach the mouse without stretching my arm. I love it.

In your situation, I'd use Flickr.

I really was going to be all handy with the neoprene cutting until I found out that my existing Marware case was perfect for stuffing my iPod in a newly gutted Sony Sports Walkman. Can I have a Slashdot story please? PLEASE?

Folksonomies (the first meme of 2005?) is attributed by Wikipedia to Thomas Vander Wa.

Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services - Del.icio.us and Flickr - designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags. Are these features or bugs? Consensuss says 'feature'. Andrew Ducker has a suggestion for synonyms and a modest proposal

Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?,
John Battelle links into Taggle and "federated tagging".

I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might reduce 'lazy tagging' ,and maybe synonym control when the federation appears.

New: In Beyond Laser Tag and Telephone Tag, JC Francois wonders if "2005 will be the year of tagging".

Will Folksonomies lead to the nirvana of the Semantic Web, or at least Semantic web light? (see : ftrain.com August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web)

Tag, you're still it!"

The other key part of social categorization is that there is a *feedback loop* based on tag popularity that reinforces common tags - the more people who use a tag, the more prominence it gets in the system, encouraging people to use the common term.

Flickr and 43things use bigger type to show tag popularity.

Social categorization is useful because it is fuelled by self-interest - people tag info in these systems to find it later themselves - but it has a public benefit in finding related information.

It's also no silver bullet - but it's useful as part of a bigger information architecture effort (my business partner started the whole discussion about social categorization, and we're starting to use it on some projects)

I didn't know either so I looked it up

...more info at http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediat ed-communication/folksonomies.html

Del.icio.us http://de.licio.us/ henceforth referred to as "Delicious") is a tool to organize web pages. A description online states it is: "a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others" (Schachter, 2004)

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/, a photo management and sharing web application, has a similar system of free-form tagging for photos that was adopted and modeled after Delicious. It too requires users to create a user account, and is free to join.

Here is an expample of how powerfull those lasers can be:http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/2622866/

Burning through a plastic cup is a lot differant from taking down a plane though. IMO it shows how security paranoid people are nowerdays.

I think the grandparent is referring to the story about an MS article reviewing MSN Search which features a screenshot of MSN Search in the Firefox browser. Microsoft, being Microsoft, denied it completely, even though we all had the evidence on many websites.
Of course I may be wrong.

OK. I got my freeipods and I'm happy with the service. If you know what you're getting into then its your choice. ....and personally I'm happy with it.

First off you don't have to give up your friends and family. All you have to do is send your own email to friends and family and include your Freeipods referral link. That gives them the choice whether or not they want to do it or not. If they don't sign up then Freeipods doesn't get any of their personal info. If you send out referalls through their site(instead of sending the referral link), then freeipods can get your friends and family's personal email....but if you don't do it that way then they won't.

I did mine back in the day when all I had to do was open up and Ebay account and place a bid...that was my completed offer. They don't offer than one anymore....I guess cause it was too easy and everyone was doing it.

So anyway I got mine after like 3 or 4 months. My gmail address gets major spam, but it all goes into my spam folder, so no worries.

My feeling is that you give that personal info out all the time and companies already have a ton of information about you anyway. ...and they're only gonna keep getting more.

Anyway here's a pic w/ my freeipod...just for legitimacy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmchugh/1206088/

When logged in at Flickr (http://flickr.com/) you can quickly edit photo titles and other bits of info by simply clicking on then and typing in a new value. When you submit the value it uses XmlHttpRequest to send your change to the server without refreshing the page and works really well. Makes it really simple to make small quick changes to stuff.

With XmlHttpRequest being supported cross browser (I think Safari is getting it soon) and starting to get more mindshare I think we are going to see a lot more of this.

I use the LCD to frame shots, unless I need to conserve battery Power... And then i look at the quick 1-2 second preview after the shot to see if i want to keep it...

I use the LCD mainly because that's where all the important information is.... I don't use 'Auto' so I need the LCD screen to see if i need to adjust the ISO, Apature Size, or shutter speed.. I also use it to help create 'frames' in the image (parts of the photo that force the eye to look at certain parts of the image, or to keep them from 'reading' the image (eyes going from left to right, then off the photo to something else--frames are good for creating 'disturbances' which keeps people's focus when they are looking at multiple works of art/photography) An exampel of framing is shown Here -- notice how the stone wall at the bottom creates a 'frame' of the image...

So No, I don't use Auto settings -- unless I have someone else taking a picture, or I am just doing a quick-shot to get an idea for a better (more controlled) shot

I don't use the frame viewer 99.999% of the time

And I use a Fuji FinePix E550 - 6.3 Megapixel... If you like taking night/dark shots like this (taken just after sunset, so still some light) or darker/true night shots; you may want to get a camra that can do a 5+ second exposure

I use the LCD to frame shots, unless I need to conserve battery Power... And then i look at the quick 1-2 second preview after the shot to see if i want to keep it...

I use the LCD mainly because that's where all the important information is.... I don't use 'Auto' so I need the LCD screen to see if i need to adjust the ISO, Apature Size, or shutter speed.. I also use it to help create 'frames' in the image (parts of the photo that force the eye to look at certain parts of the image, or to keep them from 'reading' the image (eyes going from left to right, then off the photo to something else--frames are good for creating 'disturbances' which keeps people's focus when they are looking at multiple works of art/photography) An exampel of framing is shown Here -- notice how the stone wall at the bottom creates a 'frame' of the image...

So No, I don't use Auto settings -- unless I have someone else taking a picture, or I am just doing a quick-shot to get an idea for a better (more controlled) shot

I don't use the frame viewer 99.999% of the time

And I use a Fuji FinePix E550 - 6.3 Megapixel... If you like taking night/dark shots like this (taken just after sunset, so still some light) or darker/true night shots; you may want to get a camra that can do a 5+ second exposure

I've taken some Amazing photo's with a digital camra... It's a mater of adjusting to the camra... I personally hate waiting between shooting and development, with my digital camra (6.3M), I can do a 500-picture photo shoot, produce -perfect- 8 1/2" x 11" prints.. and I pay no money other then ink, paper, and electricity for running the printer and recharging the battery...

A lot cheaper, nearly identicle photo's (to all but the most trained photographer)... and no 'wasted shots' since they can all be deleted if they come out wrong...

A professional might like to keep both kinds of camra's around... but as an advanced amatuer I gotta say I love digital photography the most