74 items tagged “flickr”
2007
Why you should be using disambiguated URLs
Good URLs are important. The best URLs are readable, reliable and hackable.
[... 553 words]Jeff Croft: Geocoding My Life. Really smart weblog integration of the Flickr API, using the Geocoder.us reverse geocoder along with hand entered locations to create a browseable archive of photos by location.
Flickr users are marked as such in the Yahoo user database. What this means is that the account is permanently protected from deletion, even if you cancel your SBC-Yahoo DSL and even if you never check your Yahoo Mail (if you elect to have one). Both free and pro accounts are protected. And your Yahoo signon name will not be displayed anywhere on Flickr -- your existing Flickr username will stay the same.
Flickr Machine Tags. A new feature for API developers that lets them stuff arbritrary namespaced key/value pairs in to tags and query them using the API. Even without range queries, this will enable a ton of exciting new third party developments.
Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps. “Can we automatically extract information from Flickr geotagged images to create a rich visualization of the world we live in? The answer is: you bet.”
2006
Introducing Operator. New microformat detecting Firefox extension, developed at IBM and released by Mozilla Labs. Examples are from Yahoo! Local, Upcoming and Flickr.
XSL Flickr. An XSL interface to the Flickr API. It even does auth!
MOBILE CLUBBING. Encountered this yesterday evening at Paddington. Photos on Flickr.
Flickr API + JSON + MochiKit + Django. Short and sweet.
Photographing Squirrels—a photoset on Flickr. Real wild squirrels with real vintage cameras. Awesome.
Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3. 25 lines of Python.
2005
Flickr without the Flash
One of my favourite panels at SxSW this year was the Flash vs. HTML Game Show, in which a team of HTML/JavaScript gurus took on a team of Flash gurus showing off pre-prepared solutions to tasks set for the panel. One of the challenges was to come up with enhancements to Flickr using the team’s assigned technology.
[... 353 words]My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC!
2004
My photos of squirrels. I like squirrels, and I’ve started playing with Flickr.