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104 posts tagged “flickr”

2007

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).

# 27th April 2007, 8:41 pm / capacity-planning, flickr, john-allspaw, mysql, scaling

The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo.

# 20th April 2007, 12:30 am / alex-russell, bret-taylor, dojo, flickr, gwt, javascript, jeremy-keith, john-resig, jquery, matt-sweeney, web2expo, web2expo07, yui

quakr. Uses Flickr machine tags to add tilt/pan/direction information to photos, then displays them in the correct orientation in a 3D Flash viewer. Presented at last night’s Oxford Geek Night.

# 12th April 2007, 11:11 am / flickr, machinetags, oxfordgeeknight2, quakr

factoryjoe: Design Patterns. Chris Messina’s collection of user interface design pattern screenshots, collated on Flickr.

# 10th April 2007, 11:22 am / chris-messina, design, design-patterns, flickr, ui

mail rail on Flickr (via) Photos of the Royal Mail’s private underground railway, sadly closed in 2003.

# 3rd April 2007, 11:02 pm / flickr, royalmail

Flickr content filters (via) You can now upload illustrations and screenshots to Flickr without risk of being NIPSAd, provided you label them as such.

# 30th March 2007, 3:45 pm / flickr, nipsa

My photos tagged “cheese” on a Google Map. You can paste a Flickr GeoRSS feed directly in to the Google Maps query box.

# 23rd March 2007, 1:55 am / cheese, flickr, georss, google, google-maps

KML and GeoRSS support added to the Google Maps API. Since Flickr can output GeoRSS, this means you can now plot your Flickr photos on a Google Map (if you’re so inclined).

# 23rd March 2007, 1:03 am / flickr, georss, google, google-maps, kml

Why you should be using disambiguated URLs

Good URLs are important. The best URLs are readable, reliable and hackable.

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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.

# 1st February 2007, 1:27 pm / django, flickr, geocoding, jeff-croft, mashup

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.

crawl on MeFi

# 31st January 2007, 10:27 pm / flickr, yahoo, metafilter

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.

# 24th January 2007, 7:54 pm / api, flickr, machinetags, tagging

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.”

# 19th January 2007, 9:55 am / flickr, maps, tagging, yrb

2006

Introducing Operator. New microformat detecting Firefox extension, developed at IBM and released by Mozilla Labs. Examples are from Yahoo! Local, Upcoming and Flickr.

# 18th December 2006, 4:36 pm / extension, firefox, flickr, ibm, microformats, mozilla, mozillalabs, upcoming, yahoo

XSL Flickr. An XSL interface to the Flickr API. It even does auth!

# 1st December 2006, 12:20 pm / flickr, xslt

MOBILE CLUBBING. Encountered this yesterday evening at Paddington. Photos on Flickr.

# 1st December 2006, 1:11 am / flashmob, flickr

Flickr Camera Finder. I hadn’t seen this; includes some really nice graphs.

# 21st November 2006, 11:25 am / flickr

Flickr: Photos from Space Explorer. Space tourist with a Flickr photo stream.

# 26th September 2006, 3:25 pm / flickr

Flickr launches geocoding. Really great job—congrats Dan Catt and the rest of the team.

# 28th August 2006, 8:46 pm / flickr

mySQL DBA (via) Dathan’s MySQL performance tuning blog. He tunes Flickr.

# 31st July 2006, 9:55 pm / flickr, mysql

Photographing Squirrels—a photoset on Flickr. Real wild squirrels with real vintage cameras. Awesome.

# 30th May 2006, 11:13 am / flickr, squirrels

del.icio.us/tag/flickr. del.icio.us shows Flickr thumbnails—not sure when that was added.

# 28th April 2006, 11 am / delicious, flickr

Some details about Ookles. Photo transforms defined by URLs, Flickr API compatibility and more.

# 12th April 2006, 11:11 am / flickr

favcol (via) Hammond-powered Flickr fun.

# 22nd March 2006, 7:07 pm / flickr

flickr Calendar. Really nice demo of extending the Y! Calendar class.

# 16th February 2006, 12:44 pm / flickr