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0 canada [Flickr]0 canada [Flickr]0 canada [Flickr] 12/27/2004 03:23 PM mathowie posted a photo:
0 canada This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)0 canada [Flickr]Grok Headline matches for 0 canada [Flickr]Flickr.comFlickr.com 07/19/2004 06:36 AM this new thing 'Flickr' .. Flickr! .. flickr .. Flikr flickr.com Fun with FlickrFun with Flickr 09/01/2004 08:42 PM At the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference earlier this year I was lucky enough to get a demo of Flickr, the photo-sharing software and service from Ludicorp. (The company's president, Stewart Butterfield, is married to Caterina Fake, who did great design work here at Salon several years ago.) At the time I thought it was a neat little photo-sharing tool, but it seemed a little heavy on the Flash, which sometimes makes my head ache, and life got busy and I never got around to exploring it further. Since then Flickr has won much acclaim, and when I needed to figure out a simple way to share photos from a recent family trip, I thought I'd give it another spin last night. Turns out it has evolved beautifully since my introduction to it, and I ended up playing with it for hours, so let me now belatedly add my enthusiasm to the chorus. It's an exquisitely well designed Web application, certainly one of the best I've ever seen, full of smart interface choices and nice little finishing touches that let you know that the developers who've built it are also heavy users of their own handiwork. Tiny example: I noticed Flickr was dating the photos based on the date I uploaded them, so I went in to change a bunch of dates to reflect when the photos were taken. The page contained this helpful message: "The date posted is the date & time you physically published your photo on Flickr, not the date the photo was taken. We are currently storing the date that your photo was taken in the database, so rest assured you won't need to modify every photo later... There will soon be a way to sort your photos based on the date the photo was taken. Stay tuned!" So I didn't waste my time. That's what I call a considerate piece of software. And along the way you learn that Flickr is respectfully storing each photo's metadata (date, type of camera used, all that EXIF stuff that you almost never need to look at, except when you do). It's easy to get started with Flickr, and then when you want to push it and do more with it, it leads you gently into its depths. It has a whole layer of social software -- profiles, groups, and so forth -- but since its primary function is photo sharing, that social software actually has a raison d'etre, so you don't just sit there (as with so many other ventures in this area) and wonder "Now that we're here and we know each other's hobbies and marital status, what exactly do we do?" I am generally distrustful of using Web applications as anything
more than conveniences for away-from-home access. I want my data close
at hand, and most Web interfaces are still too clunky to allow for
fast and complex organizing of serious quantities of stuff. But I'm
seriously thinking about making Flickr my photo home base -- it's that
good. And if Flickr's speedy evolution in a mere six months is any
indication, the thing is going to improve -- and grow -- at an intense
rate. "Flickr""Flickr" 02/12/2004 04:02 AM Flickr-API-0.02Flickr-API-0.02 08/20/2004 12:32 AM FlickrFlickr 02/11/2004 08:20 AM Flickr launched into Public Beta yesterday. It's a social softwarey photosharingly chatroomishly deeply nifty thing. The little touches are beautiful - the buddy icon maker, for example, is lovely to behold. It will, obviously, descend into a cross between the... 2005_cock_year [Flickr]2005_cock_year [Flickr] 12/31/2004 09:04 PM mathowie posted a photo:
via adam greenfield Image000.jpg [Flickr]Image000.jpg [Flickr] 01/03/2005 02:38 PM Flickr-Upload-1.11Flickr-Upload-1.11 01/04/2005 02:12 AM I count three [Flickr]I count three [Flickr] 01/05/2005 01:18 PM mathowie posted a photo:
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Boat Image004.jpg [Flickr]Image004.jpg [Flickr] 12/30/2004 11:11 AM DSC00373 [Flickr]DSC00373 [Flickr] 12/28/2004 05:33 PM mathowie posted a photo:
use the stairs [Flickr]use the stairs [Flickr] 12/29/2004 01:10 AM mathowie posted a photo:
stairs Mobl0gging from FlickrMobl0gging from Flickr 07/08/2004 01:54 PM
But what happens when Seb goes on vacation? Anyway here's what he
has to say about this coolio new Flickr feature.
Great move, guys. Notice how photo sharing service Flickr is not in
the Here's what a hap
py user had to say: 
restrooms [Flickr]restrooms [Flickr] 12/29/2004 01:10 AM mathowie posted a photo:
stairs Image001.jpg [Flickr]Image001.jpg [Flickr] 12/30/2004 11:11 AM Flickr: ZeitgeistFlickr: Zeitgeist 07/06/2004 01:45 AM daily zeitgeist flickr.com/fun/zeitgeist Image015.jpg [Flickr]Image015.jpg [Flickr] 12/29/2004 08:06 AM Image014.jpg [Flickr]Image014.jpg [Flickr] 12/29/2004 08:06 AM Image002.jpg [Flickr]Image002.jpg [Flickr] 12/30/2004 11:11 AM Fonts [Flickr]Fonts [Flickr] 01/06/2005 08:19 PM mathowie posted a photo:
Fonts Me in the elevator [Flickr]Me in the elevator [Flickr] 02/01/2005 08:45 PM mathowie posted a photo:
At the library, self-portrait where I held the camera out and guessed that I was in frame My Dinner With FlickrMy Dinner With Flickr 03/22/2005 05:01 PM Xeni Jardin: 
Boing Boing reader Ranjit Bhatnagar loves the internet photo-sharing
service Flickr so much, he cooked up an homage in polenta. "I'd love
to say it's in honor of Flickr's acquisition (or consumption?) by
Yahoo, but unfortunately I was a day early," the chef says.
Link
Previously: Y
ahoo! bought Flickr!,
Polenta Twinkie,
Scan, then blog each week's pick from the farmer's market I guess that's me out, then... [Flickr]I guess that's me out, then... [Flickr] 01/02/2005 11:28 AM Spell with flickrSpell with flickr 03/23/2005 05:13 AM images from Flickr .. Spell with flickr .. Try it yourself .. your turn metaatem.net/words.php The Flickr AnalogyThe Flickr Analogy 03/25/2005 06:46 AM Earlier today, we invited a group of folks to Yahoo for a preview of Yahoo! 360. Danah Boyd wrote a bit about the event this evening. Today, Yahoo invited a handful of “influencers” to have early access to their new product 360 degrees. Apparently, i’m one of them so i got to sit around a table at Yahoo, learn about the product and speak my mind. I have to say that i’m impressed that Yahoo folks wanted to hear all... Flickr-Upload-1.18Flickr-Upload-1.18 03/29/2005 08:12 PM iGuitar [Flickr]iGuitar [Flickr] 03/29/2005 08:36 PM MacMerc.com posted a photo:
PocketMac For PSP [Flickr]PocketMac For PSP [Flickr] 03/30/2005 11:25 AM MacMerc.com posted a photo:
Flickr launches!Flickr launches! 02/11/2004 12:08 PM huge congrats to the ludicorp crew for making a social networking app that actually has a purpose New Flickr featuresNew Flickr features 04/29/2004 05:01 AM Flickr, the image-sharing social software app, has rolled out a bunch of new features, including this one, which does very intuitive group-based access-control to files: Photostreams are a new way to share your photos on Flickr, on simple webpages where you control who sees what. All the photos you upload automatically go into your Photostream, but different viewers see different images, depending on their relationship to you.Link Ben and Tom go cruisin' [Flickr]Ben and Tom go cruisin' [Flickr] 03/22/2005 04:38 PM MacHottie [Flickr]MacHottie [Flickr] 03/19/2005 02:38 AM MacMerc.com posted a photo:
Like the pic? Check out the tutorial! Flickr-Upload-1.17Flickr-Upload-1.17 02/06/2005 01:17 AM What's in your bag? A Flickr galleryWhat's in your bag? A Flickr gallery 03/14/2005 05:29 PM Mark Frauenfelder: 
Phil Torrone showed me this
fantastic Flickr gallery of pictures of the contents of people's bags.
Many of the photos are annotated.
Link A mystery man had been here before me...
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I think from now on - whenever there's a hot
new technology or service that I KNOW 
It catches eyes, that's for
sure. I had forgotten to load the Sony VAIO U50 with any software
before our flight home to Kansas City for the weekend, but since an
unexpected storm front was blowing in from the north, we had almost
two hours to kill while our plane sat, stranded on the tarmac of
LaGuardia. Even scrolling through empty file systems was better than
the airline magazine.
I should warn you: I'm sort of
lukewarm on portable video players altogether. I don't commute to
work, and when I did, there was enough jostling and train swapping to
make anything that required focused attention, like reading books or
watching video, a fractured and annoying experience. But still, there
is an opportunity for a video player like the HMP-A1 to be useful -- I
just don't think this would be the one I would buy.