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http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/35187/

if you hover your mouse over the image, you can see descriptions of the various goings on in the photo.

it may be a little 'gee-whizzy', but it can be a good way of overlaying information onto the photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/35187/

you'll notice the use of notes on certain images .. image owners can open permissions that allow friends, family or anyone with a flickr account to add notes that highlight areas of the image with little comments.

you can do this .. they've just hidden the feature for the past week or so.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:cat,kitte n/tagmode:any/

http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/30288/ The kid with the red hair sitting on the right knee is Stewart, the president of Ludicorp, which is the company that is developing Flickr. He's sitting in his great-grandpa's lap, and I think the other kid is Stewart's cousin. I'm pretty sure that's just the chair, not a hunchbacked grandpa.

Take a look at this 60's ad for Union Carbide... Picture's a little ironic, no? http://photos2.flickr.com/1891004_c76fe310c2_b.jpg

I tried to implement Gallery on my site but couldn't because it requires PHP to be run in Safe Mode. As an alternative, I set-up Coppermine.

I also use Flickr, mainly because it easily allows me to restrict access to certain photos and I can post images directly via email (such as from my phone). And in all honesty, I don't mind someone else managing it. There are other features that I'm only starting to play with, too, like their APIs.

One of the benefits of having a fully open API: FlickrUploadr written in PyGtk by Michele Campeotto.

Personally, I've gone the cmdline route. Here's a perl-script I use that I run in my cron to automatically u/l what's in a dropbox folder: flickrer

Be sure to check out the Flickr API group. There's also a mailing list

The comments are encouraging for an amateur photographer like me who wants to take good pictures for people to enjoy, and not be eviscerated by a professional critic.

Definitely room for improvement (sets of sets, printing integration), but they seem to be hard at work making this happen. And it looks like they're going to charge $60/year, which seems kind of pricey compared to the competition.

What finally (after a couple days) pushed me over the edge to pay them and subscribe were the fact that they have seamless integration with Creative Commons licenses for your photos (cool-factor points), and an open open API for managing your photos through 3rd-party scripts. With it, I've written a python script that I use to batch-upload and annotate photos. I haven't tried their client with Wine, so I don't know if that option exists for Linux-only users.

The comments are encouraging for an amateur photographer like me who wants to take good pictures for people to enjoy, and not be eviscerated by a professional critic.

Definitely room for improvement (sets of sets, printing integration), but they seem to be hard at work making this happen. And it looks like they're going to charge $60/year, which seems kind of pricey compared to the competition.

What finally (after a couple days) pushed me over the edge to pay them and subscribe were the fact that they have seamless integration with Creative Commons licenses for your photos (cool-factor points), and an open open API for managing your photos through 3rd-party scripts. With it, I've written a python script that I use to batch-upload and annotate photos. I haven't tried their client with Wine, so I don't know if that option exists for Linux-only users.

The comments are encouraging for an amateur photographer like me who wants to take good pictures for people to enjoy, and not be eviscerated by a professional critic.

Definitely room for improvement (sets of sets, printing integration), but they seem to be hard at work making this happen. And it looks like they're going to charge $60/year, which seems kind of pricey compared to the competition.

What finally (after a couple days) pushed me over the edge to pay them and subscribe were the fact that they have seamless integration with Creative Commons licenses for your photos (cool-factor points), and an open open API for managing your photos through 3rd-party scripts. With it, I've written a python script that I use to batch-upload and annotate photos. I haven't tried their client with Wine, so I don't know if that option exists for Linux-only users.

It's also becomming a bit like a blog location itself. I notice a few people attaching long annotations or "stories" to daily posts. With comments and photos displayed in stream ordering by default, this is becoming much like my second blog.

I started using Flickr last month and am very impressed. Granted I don't have a big need to sell my photos, just to manage them easily and quickly.

Two of my favorite features of flickr are the ability to email photos from my phone directly to the site, and the fact that they provide code which enables me to display the last 5 flickr photos on my personal website. In addition to those two features, they allow members to post comments on photos. Plus, you can see how many times each photo has been viewed. Another nice feature is the photographer's ability to make several notes on each photo, which appear when the viewer hovers the mouse pointer over each note's user customizable box.

Yes, there are features I'd like to see incorporated, but the service is still in beta, and considering that I think they've done a great job so far. Check it out. Here's my page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travischurch/

They do use advanced piracy detection techniques. They are big into creative commons liciencing and since I often post photographs found on the web, my account has been marked as "bad", and henseforth my photos don't show up in public searches

I've put up a screenshot, with notes on Flickr. Bash away.

Browsing metadata is the next frontier in the evolution of the web. Some of the other RDF browsers popping up include Gnowsis, MIT Haystack, and Fenfire.

With the growth of the Internet, the value of data itself is dropping, while the value of metadata (i.e. "data about data") increases, introducing a need for tools that can manipulate metadata. That is what RDF is all about - standardizing a way to represent metadata. It is not a standard for the metadata itself...those standards will be determined the same way everything else is on the Internet: with the best solutions rising to the top.

The most common objections to this scenario?
a) "Nobody will bother entering metadata". Wrong...it's already happening. Users are voluntarily generating metadata all the time. Just check out sites like flickr (photo blogging) and del.icio.us (collaborative bookmarks), not to mention Amazon reviews and Ebay ratings.
b) "RDF tags will just be abused with spam, trolls, and other useless info". A variety of techniques are emerging that are designed to protect the integrity of user-contributed data, including trust metrics like Slashdot's own distributed moderation (PDF) or Advogato.

I had trouble voting this morning too, in Alameda County, CA, which uses Diebold voting machines. My problem wasn't related to the voting machines, but it looks like there are problems with how non-electronic votes are being handled (not to mention that Alameda country election workers were instructed not to tell people about their right to vote on paper).

Despite the fact that I called the Alameda Country Registrar of Voters last week and confirmed that my GF and I had been registered, our names weren't on the list this morning. All we could do was fill out provisional ballots in the hope that it would be sorted out.

While we were there, a woman came in and requested a paper ballot, the way we were going to if we had been allowed to vote normally. The poll worker responded by giving her a provisional ballot too, saying that those are the only paper ballots they have. So that's how Alameda county is handling people who don't trust the electronic voting machines: they throw them in with the people who may or may not even be allowed to vote. That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that these votes will actually be counted (as I understand provisional ballots often aren't).

Registration problems seemed to be a recurring theme this morning. While we were there we saw more people taking provisional ballots than using the machines. Unfortunately, it wasn't because people were requesting them, but because the rolls were so screwed up. To top it off, the poll location only had three (3) pens to fill them out with. Nice planning guys.

We spoke to the guy in charge afterward and registered our complaints about the registration problems, the way non-electronic votes were being handled, and the utter lack of organization and knowledge on the part of the poll workers, this guy included. He actually said that we seemed to know more about it than he did. This is not what I want to hear from the people in charge of collecting votes.

I called the registrar of voters afterward and confirmed again that we are registered and that we did in fact go the right polling location. The only explanation they could give me was that late registrations were sent to the voting locations separately and that maybe they weren't checking both lists. The woman I spoke to took down my complaint about this and the general incompetence we experienced and admitted that this doesn't come as a big shock to her. This last bit makes it even worse. If they are aware of the problems with the people running these things, why haven't they done something about it?

This is my I Voted sticker.

(mostly reposted from my LiveJournal)

They have their own little blog featuring different pictures from the site as well. http://blog.flickr.com/

The site is nothing to do with me.

The interesting part is that individual photobloggers tag their pictures with keywords.

You can then search on keywords to get a bunch of related pictures from different blogs. I admit there's no editorial control involved, but the results can be quite interesting. For example, Election2004.

Or try your own search.

The site is nothing to do with me.

The interesting part is that individual photobloggers tag their pictures with keywords.

You can then search on keywords to get a bunch of related pictures from different blogs. I admit there's no editorial control involved, but the results can be quite interesting. For example, Election2004.

Or try your own search.

Thank you Flickr.

• Warrenellis.com
• Die Puny Humans
• Flickr
• del.icio.us

Ellis is definitely one of the coolest authors ever. You'd do well to check out his Transmetropolitan series and anything else he's written.

everyone is going to have to include the metadata necessary to integrate their data into the Semantic Web. How's that going to work? Who's going to make it work?

It's already happening...check out sites like flickr (photo blogging) and del.icio.us (collaborative bookmarks).

Here's a story for ya: While driving over to pickup an iTrip at the Apple Store for my new, free, 4G iPod, my brother and I ended up behind a guy who, coincedentally, had an Apple sticker, a Newton sticker and also a big ol' "Hand Up And Drive!" bumper sticker on the back of his Jeep Wrangler.

Well, we were on a 2 lane road and he was in front of us and was tailgating the car in front of him pretty badly and I could tell it wasn't your normal, this is how I drive all the time, style tailgating. Obviously, this guy was pissed at the person in front of him. Suddenly he swerved into oncomming traffic and passed the car he was tailgaiting, popped back over onto our side into a second lane that had just opened up and then proceeded to scream and yell at the person, who was driving beside him now, while we all slowed and stopped at a stoplight.

My brother and I were dumbfounded! What did this person do to make this guy drive so dangerously?

What we saw through the back window of the tailgaited car, now in front of us, we saw that the woman in the car had been/was on a cellphone! Ohnos! Makes you wonder who the truely dangerous drivers are, doesn't it?

PS - Just to figuratively give the guy the finger over this whole incident, I used my cellphone while driving too! But I didn't use it to talk. Instead I used it to take a picture of his road raging ass: http://flickr.com/photos/celerityfm/312722/

IN YOUR FACE CELLPHONE NAZI!!! :P

Currently, you can get an rss feed for certain tags on publicly available photos. It would be interesting if they extended this feature for GPS coordinates. (ie, if you want to see what's going on in Central Park, at your college, at Mt Everest, or at Mardi Gras.)

It also would make for some interesting searches. In theory, if they kept track of points, vectors, and times... and lets say that you kept track of the same info, then you could search for all photos that include you!! Also, depending on if they store other meta-data, sorta like ID3 tags for MP3s, you could look for a GPS coordinates that best match a set of keywords.

Example, if you did a search for Lego, the first result would probably be Lego land. (Lots and lots of vacation pics.) The next 2-5 would probably be big, famous Lego artworks that lots of people would take pictures of. You could do a search for waterfalls and find all the most picturesque waterfalls in your area. ... In summary; more meta-data = cooler searches.

http://flickr.com/services/feeds/
http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne ?tags=decay&format=rss_200

On the downside, you have to be careful with your meta-data. I can only imagine stalkers having a field day once GPS coordinates are embedded into pictures. ...Computer generated images would need fake GPS coordinates, NASA would need some other form of GPS for space...

Currently, you can get an rss feed for certain tags on publicly available photos. It would be interesting if they extended this feature for GPS coordinates. (ie, if you want to see what's going on in Central Park, at your college, at Mt Everest, or at Mardi Gras.)

It also would make for some interesting searches. In theory, if they kept track of points, vectors, and times... and lets say that you kept track of the same info, then you could search for all photos that include you!! Also, depending on if they store other meta-data, sorta like ID3 tags for MP3s, you could look for a GPS coordinates that best match a set of keywords.

Example, if you did a search for Lego, the first result would probably be Lego land. (Lots and lots of vacation pics.) The next 2-5 would probably be big, famous Lego artworks that lots of people would take pictures of. You could do a search for waterfalls and find all the most picturesque waterfalls in your area. ... In summary; more meta-data = cooler searches.

http://flickr.com/services/feeds/
http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne ?tags=decay&format=rss_200

On the downside, you have to be careful with your meta-data. I can only imagine stalkers having a field day once GPS coordinates are embedded into pictures. ...Computer generated images would need fake GPS coordinates, NASA would need some other form of GPS for space...

And here are some more pictures taken by Katrien earlier on in the project. You can see Nicholas (the print head designer) and James (2-axis, software). Oh, and Richard (support). We managed to do this in a three weeks and as we talk James is demoing this at FooCamp2 (assuming he managed to assemble it again). The best bit about this is having the meeting room full of Lego...

This person is plastering his wall with failed and used cd/dvd's

http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=92727

I've never used Flickr before, so I've no idea whether this mirror will stop working after N bytes, views, etc. But there it is.

There's a very interesting post on kottke.org that discusses online applications in relation to weblogs. I quote:

Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account; your events calendar on Upcoming; use iCal to update your personal calendar (which is then stored on your .Mac account); use GMail for email; use TypeKey or Flickr's authentication system to handle identity; outsource your storage/backups to Google or Akamai; you let Feedburner "listen" for new content from all those sources,
transform/aggregate/filter it all, and publish it to your Web space; and you manage all this on the Web at each individual Web site or with a Watson-ish desktop client.

www.flickr.com is a billion times better then orkut !!!

flickr!