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Flickr links photos to OpenStreetMap
Blog Yahoo's photo sharing site, Flickr has announced support for OpenStreetMap data in photo tags. By adding a tag to your photo linking it to the relevant object in OSM, Flickr can retrieve details, such as the name of a feature, from OpenStreetMap...
[September 29, 2009, 8:47 in Beyond the Code by Jonathan Bennett]
Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Here's a particularly entertaining thread on Flickr, in which members vent at the fact that their photos - many of which had been set for private viewing only - had been scraped by Microsoft and pulled over, creditless, to Microsoft's servers.
[August 12, 2008, 13:49 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
Talkback Yahoo can do what it wants with Flickr! I'm sure the people who use Flickr(like myself) would at some stage have make a similar decision if they were a yahoo CEO. Yahoo owns Flikr! It's business, full stop.
About: Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
[August 31, 2005, 14:11]
RE: Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Comment When you think Microsoft couldn't be any more boneheaded than they were yesterday or last week they do it again and prove you wrong. I still have that image of Balmer running around on stage and screaming like a crazed ape.
[August 14, 2008, 9:30 by Xwindowsjunkie]
RE: Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Comment I can see where there might be a problem for a lesser known company, but Microsoft is different. They are always right, just ask Steve.
[August 12, 2008, 20:09 by ator1940]
RE: Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Comment Microsoft behaving normally then. One is tempted to ask where the story is.
[August 12, 2008, 16:58 by Tezzer]
RE: Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Comment Plus i'd imagine that a large quantity were sourced from Flickr. That is certainly a massive and somewhat costly mistake I would imagine. A warning to any 3rd party that plans on sponsoring competitions in the future, what type of impact could it...
[August 12, 2008, 15:08 by welshtroll]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
Talkback When in 1998 yahoo bought geocities and imposed new conditions, many users blacked out their pages. That, Microsoft's unlawful killing of Netscape, and the arrival of home broadband, marked the turning point in the Internet's history.
About: Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
[August 31, 2005, 22:04]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
Talkback What happened to the liberty alliance project, shouldn't all those that are opposed to MS be using the LA login, the days of propriety login are soon to end, where is that standard anyway.
About: Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
[August 30, 2005, 18:50]
RE: How to post images to your blog
Blog Comment The Flickr guidelines state "The Flickr service makes it possible to post images hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display images hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo back to its photo...
[December 3, 2007, 12:23 by mlryan]
The living web and organic information systems
Blog As part of the dConstruct 2007: User Experience Design Conference I had the opportunity this morning to speak with George Oates the lead designer behind Flickr. George describes herself as an online application designer fascinated by the human...
[September 7, 2007, 11:54 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog But Flickr seems to have a very strong San Francisco-London axis, so the chances of finding an image that hasn't been done to death are slim. It's Sunday, I'm in San Francisco the day before the work starts and I'm out taking pictures with one eye...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Friday down time: my fantasy technology dinner party guests
Blog Ms George Oates the lead designer behind Flickr would also have to come along. George describes herself as an online application designer fascinated by the human condition and is a founding member of the team that built the Flickr photo sharing web...
[May 30, 2008, 12:31 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fortunately, I have ShoZu to hand, a rather nifty service that runs on camera phones and uploads pictures to Flickr as you take them. Via the miracle of text, I point my beloved at the appropriate Flickr account and proceed to document my journey...
[April 21, 2006, 17:20 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Asus Eee and Ubuntu - more screen shots
Blog I've hosted them on Flickr (due to some ongoing functionality issues with our content management system - ie, it doesn't do what I want), so you can click for the full size captures. As requested, here are some screen shots of various packages...
[October 28, 2007, 18:35 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Facebook has concluded. Please disperse and go about your lives.
Blog You can tell it's fake, because it's a Flickr picture and you can't click on any of the links. OK, the link that follows is to a fake web page. That's warning number one. It is also rude. It has rude words arranged in very rude ways to describe...
[October 4, 2007, 21:14 in Not Safe For Work by Rupert Goodwins]
Don't leave alternative browsers all at sea
Talkback Google doesn't own Flickr
About: Don't leave alternative browsers all at sea
[April 27, 2005, 16:34]
I read you
Talkback This includes blogs, forum posts and photos on sites like flickr. Thumbs up to Time for this. Looking at my reading/viewing habits over the last couple of months and the majority of what I'm viewing is user generated content.
About: Person of the Year? It's you
[December 19, 2006, 16:02 by David Long]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I wonder how many of these people are on Flickr, the far-too-cool photo sharing community, and whether we'll end up in each others' pictures (it has happened). Flickr works by letting people share, and since it includes Creative Commons option it...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake
Blog See and read The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake at news.com - an interview with Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr.
[March 26, 2007, 10:34 in by modafo]
