Reading Things learnt from 5 years on The Story by Matt Locke. A great set of things that he has learnt running his The Story Conference, from the need of side-projects, that you have to do things many times to get things right and that things are valued more when paid for with own money […]
Localisation
On June 12, Flickr introduced localisation – that is local language and country versions – of their site in 7 different flavours. These were French, Germany, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. In what appears to be a consequence to this extension, they also ran up against local laws (or interpretation of laws) that […]
Flickr and Censorship
Flickr have been having a rough ride lately when it comes to claims of censorship. From the introduction of filters to the banning from China and today additional filters in 4 countries based on local Terms of Service. As a product, I love Flickr, I’ve never had any issues with it. But the reality of […]
Flickr loves you
isn’t that nice 😉
Flickr and Upcoming connection
I’ve never seen this before, a Flickr photo with an upcoming event tag. Sheila added these tags manually. But as they are both now on the same login, I guess it can be done automatically now…wonder if we will see this?
24 Hours of Flickr
Flickr have announced a ‘day in the life of’ project. On 5th May, take your photos, send them to the group, map them, comment on them. Join in the fun and you may get your image published and featured in Flickr Events. One of the things that Flickr is great at, one of its defining […]
Flickr and Photo classifications
Flickr have finally released their photo classification and categorisation system, along with some improvements into how it communicates the status of help calls. Given the wide range of photos available on the site, there have long been issues with differences of opinions about what was considered ‘decent’ or art, about what could be shared with […]
Flickr Collections
Flickr have finally (after what appears to be a couple of years of asking in the forums) released their sets of sets feature, calling it Collections. It enables you to pull together sets, nesting them up to 5 deeps, arranging as you may organise your photos into nested directories on you hard drive. So for […]
Another Yahoo issue with Flickr
As if upsetting a whole bunch of customers by forcing Flickr users to sign up with Yahoo to logon to the service, Yahoo now shoots itself in the foot by breaking their own terms of service. Yahoo’s new vertical brand sites, such as their Wii page, are pulling content from the rest of the Yahoo […]
Flickr and Yahoo accounts – relationships are hard to break up
It’s finally arrived, the time when you have to merge your Flickr and Yahoo accounts. It was obvious it was coming and now they want to move the final 5% of users across to the Yahoo! login system to simplify things. 95% of your fellow Flickrites already use this system and their experience is just […]
Flickr Presents
Flickr have a wonderful easter egg this Christmas – adding notes to the photo gives you Xmas hats and Santa beards. See here for an example. Furthermore they have extended the upload limits for everyone. And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the […]
Future of Web Apps: Flickr
Cal Henderson – Flickr 10 reasons to love web2.0 Flickr – Awsome Web2.0 – kinda awesome Birthday – in SanFran on Friday. they’re 2 Passionate users are important…they care about building Flickr – gets people to like it. They need to get people to care about it by caring themselves. Difference btw what users want […]