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Locals and Tourists
I love these heat maps — they show the locations of photos taken by locals versus tourists in cities around the word.
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George Oates: Not quite what I had in mind.
George, the great designer that is responsible for the easy, fun, and beautifully simple work that has made Flickr what it is, has been laid off by Yahoo and company. This is her account of how that transpired. I don’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of business, but I don’t get how, even in the face of needing to lay some people off, you’d choose the high-profile, well-spoken, community-loved designer that gave your product its face. It’s a bit baffling. I’d trust that Yahoo knows what they’re doing, except, well — they haven’t shown they know what they’re doing for years.
I met George in London in 2007 and found her to be smart, funny, and downright sweet. And, of course, she’s incredibly talented, to boot. Good luck, George. You’ll land on your feet somewhere — and soon.
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Flickr Developer Blog: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Some nice tips and lessons-learned, here.
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Idée Inc.: Multicolr Search Lab
Really incredible search-flickr-by-color tool. Just brilliant. I could play with this all day. My design comps just got more color-coordinated.
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Stewart Butterfield’s bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo
Wow. This is absolutely fantastic. I can only hope that one day I’ll be in a position to resign from a company, knowing full well my resignation will be leaked onto the interwebs, and I have enough wits about me to compose a letter even half as amusing as this one. If that day ever comes, I’ll know I’ve made it. Kudos, Stewart Butterfield.
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Caterina and Stewart leaving Flickr
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the husband/wife team who founded Flickr in back 2004 and then sold the site to Yahoo in 2005, are leaving Y!. Can’t blame them, what with the uncertainty around the company right now. Sounds like Flickr is still very well staffed with good people, so there’s probably no reason to worry about the site’s future. Good luck to Caterina and Stewart in their future endeavors!
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Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
Flickr’s George Oates has a great piece on A List Apart about building community around your site — something that Flickr has done as well as anyone.
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Flickr Code
Flickr launches code.flickr.com, a site dedicated to their open source projects, their API, and everything development as it related to Flickr. Nice.
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Flickr: The We Say NO to Videos on Flickr Pool
So basically, 23,000+ jackasses are protesting non-photographic content on Flickr by — for the most part — uploading non-photographic content. Fuck, people can be stupid.
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Video on Flickr?
Haha. Cute video by Heather and the folks at Flickr, soft-announcing the addition of video. I’ve been waiting for this! Flip video, here I come!
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Picnik.com is looking for a UI Designer
Great sounding gig at an awesome Seattle company.
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Yahoo!, Flickr, OpenID and Identity Projection
It seems as though Yahoo! and Flickr are set to start providing OpenID services. This is huge.
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Flickr Places
Sweet! Compare, for fun:
Flickr: Seattle JeffCroft.com Seattle
It shouldn’t be a surprise that I really like this idea!
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37s: Lessons on shutting down a service from Yahoo! Photos
Couldn’t agree more with 37signals on this one: the Yahoo! Photos shutdown has been extremely well-handled. Well done, Yahoo!
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Newsvine - Faceball - As Sensationalized by a Local News Affiliate
My cousin, Brian Ford, tells the Faceball story just as you would hear it on your local news. “It started out as a harmless game — played by young entrepreneurs with too much time on their hands between energy drinks and $10 macchiatos. Find out how “faceball” has become the next dangerous fad — and whether your teen is involved — on your nightly news at 10.
“Scotty used to do the dishes every night. These days, he heads up to his room, shuts the door, and pretends to be like his hero, Dunstan Orchard. His work ethic is completely shot.”
Awesome.
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Yahoo To Shut Down Y! Photos In Favor Of Flickr
I’m a bit surprised at this, but I absolutely think it’s the right decision.
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Jeremy Keith: Ghost in the Machine Tags
Jeremy picks up on Richard’s machine tag ideas (which I linked yesterday) and implements them on his blog. I should do this too — it would fit nicely with the other Flickr API stuff I’ve been doing.
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Richard Rutter on machine tags and ISBNs
I think Flickr’s machine tags are a great idea, and Richard’s got some nice ideas on how to use them. I’d love to see the same basic machine tag format used on other web services, so as to become some kind of a standard. Good stuff.
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Picnik: Edit your flickr photos online
Wow, this is one of the most impressive web apps I’ve ever seen. It lets you do iPhoto-like editing of your photos in the browser (works with Flickr and other photo sharing sites, as well as with images from your computer). Fix exposure, red eye, and so forth quickly and easily. If you’re not yet convinced that there is a place for “heavy” browser-based apps, think again.
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Planet Panoramas
Well, the new G7 has Stitch Assist and this looks like fun — gotta try it sometime. Thanks, SJF.
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Flickr Forums: Official Old Skool Merge Topic
It is so completely lame to whine about having to use your Yahoo ID for Flickr. You knew this was coming a year ago. If you avoided it this long, it’s your own fault. No one is forcing you to use Flickr. If you don’t like their policies, leave. You’ve had a year to let your pro account expire. Bunch of whiners.
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Geocoding My Life
Shortly after I first integrated my Flickr photos into jeffcroft.com (using Flickr’s awesome API), the photo sharing site added geocoding features, letting members tag photos with latitude and longitude information. Being someone who is obsessed with metadata, taxonomy, and the like, I quickly and meticulously geocoded my photos.
I wanted to incorporate that geo data in some interesting way here at jeffcroft.com, but the fact that I was (at the time) using dead-end code for this site (I planned to re-write it all) made me hold off until I’d finished the new version.
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Caterina Fake interview in .net magazine
Gruber’s right: Caterina should totally be the CEO of Yahoo.
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Flickr: Camera Finder
Flickr’s new camera finder app is freaking sweet. Great example of data mining user-generated content to create a really useful tool.
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Top 10 Flickr Cameras
It really surprises me that eight of the top ten cameras used on Flickr are digital SLRs. O f the remaining two, one is a “prosumer” model and one is an ultracompact. I’m surprised there aren’t more point-and-shoots on the list.
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Sumaato Labs: Flickr Geotagging Bookmarklet
A very quick and easy way to add geotags to your Flickr photos via a bookmarklet.
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Tabblo.beta
Django-based photo sharing site that’s a little different. It lets you put your photos in scrapbook-like pages with text-based stories. What’s more, it intergrates with Flickr so you don’t need to re-upload photos in more than one spot. Looks like a really good start.
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Jon Hicks: Naughty Inuits Provoke Surly Alligators
Hicksy on the Flickr “NIPSA,” a penalty on your account for posting too much non-photographic content. I can see both sides of this one.
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Nokia N93, N73, N72 Support Flickr
The new Nokias have out-of-the-box support for Flickr. All the Nokias around World Online are making me jealous, and this doesn’t help.
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Flickr: postneo’s photos tagged with bt0012477c613b
Matt’s got his phone configured to tag his photos with the bluetooth IDs of devices within range. These are photos with my phone’s ID — in other words, pictures Matt took when I was nearby. Crazy whack funky.
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boobr
By popular request. No, I didn’t do it. Jacob did. Not much right now, but perhaps it will become an aggregator of photos tagged with ‘boobr?”
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Flidget: The Dashboard widget for Flickr
If Dashboard is your bag and Flickr is your drug, you need Flidget. From Rob Mientjes and Anatoly. Neat.
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Flickr Automator Actions for Tiger
From the brilliant mind that brought you the Flickr iPhoto plug-in. It’s got 0.1-level features right now, but this is a great idea and it’s in the right hands.
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Flickr: Now cheaper and better, plus presents for existing paid members
Flickr is now half price, gives you more bandwidth, and they’ve given existing pro users and free renewal and two free pro accounts to give away to their friends. Now that’s what I call good customer service.
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The transparent desktop illusion
Clever. You know you want to try it.
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Yahoo! buys Flickr
Well, you knew somebody was going to snatch them up, and Yahoo! seems like a good choice. here’s hoping Flickr doesn’t lose it’s vibe now that it belong to “the suits.”
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Flickr to offer printing services (finally)
Sweet. Now if only we had a more specific date than “later in 2005.”
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Molly on the phone.
Yay for Flickr memes!
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One Letter
My new favorite Flickr group (thanks, Caterina Fake).
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Antenna: flickr is a MMORPG.
Wow. This is almost exactly what I told MIchelle on the phone the other night. Flickr is basically a game — it’s designed like a game, and it’s all about play and exploration. GLad I’m not the only one that noticed. :)
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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