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03 Mar 08

Les étonnants chiffres de Flickr - Suivez le geek

  • 20% des utilisateurs possèdent 82% des photos du site. C’est encore plus flagrant quand on constate que les 3,7% d’utilisateurs ayant un compte « pro » (payant) ont mis en ligne 59,5% des images.
22 Feb 08

17 outils pour Flickr - Olivier De Doncker

  • Paru dans le numéro 98 du magazine PC World. Une sélection forcément parcellaire et subjective que je vous invite à enrichir dans les commentaires de ce billet.
19 Feb 08

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Update on the Censorship Problem on Flickr

  • "The decision to change the Flickr experience in Germany was never about censorship - it was made to try to ensure that Yahoo! Germany was in compliance with local legal restrictions. In fact, we're all getting really uncomfortable that the words "flickr" and "censorship" are being jammed together with increasing frequency because that is _so far_ from the direction we're trying to move in."
  • We were all assured that using Yahoo! sign-ons wouldn't effect our Flickr experience in any way. But now those self-same Yahoo! sign-ons are being used to determine, inaccurately, who is to be censored.
10 Feb 08

O'Reilly Network -- Stewart Butterfield on Flickr

  • So the proliferation of capture devices, the always-on lifestyle, and the fact that people are now more familiar with computers and the Internet, very simply leads people to be more comfortable with interacting with each other online. It's not weird to publish a stream of your photos and have people tune into that.

Digital workflow for Flickr - Erwyn van der Meer

  • the golden rule of metadata:



    Store the metadata in your images

  • Unfortunately, Flickr only imports metadata from EXIF and IPTC and not from the XMP section. So all the images that you tag in Vista show up untagged on Flickr.
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F-Spot et Flickr - Carnet ouaibe

  • C'est en testant F-Spot que j'ai découvert l'aspect moins visible des modifications apportées à Flickr. Il semble qu'ils aient mis en place une vraie gestion de services tiers. Yahoo saura sans nul doute profiter de cette nouvelle API dans sa lutte contre Google.

Hugo’s blog » Offlickr: backing up metadata and photos from Flickr

  • Anyway, I ended up with a small Python script which does the trick for now: Offlickr. I probably will improve it, but I now feel confident that I can get my data back from Flickr.

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

  • A folksonomy represents simultaneously
    some of the best and worst in the organization of
    information. Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally chaotic,
    suffers from problems of imprecision and ambiguity that well
    developed controlled vocabularies and name authorities
    effectively ameliorate. Conversely, systems employing free-‍form
    tagging that are encouraging users to organize information in
    their own ways are supremely responsive to user needs and
    vocabularies, and involve the users of information actively in
    the organizational system. Overall, transforming the creation
    of explicit metadata for resources from an isolated,
    professional activity into a shared, communicative activity by
    users is an important development that should be explored and
    considered for future systems development.
08 Feb 08

Flickr: Discussing Picasa Web Album (Google's answer to Yahoo! Photos?) in FlickrCentral

  • Nowadays, many online services offer APIs as a matter of course, but when we released ours in 2004 that was not the case (note that even now, none of the other services you mention have an API, except Zooomr's partial support of the Flickr API). Why the suspicions of us then? Like, we've been playing along for years, but it's all been an extended ploy we're somehow about to screw you? We've been extremely open and we have no problem with people building tools to export their data from Flickr (there are several already). There is no lock in.



    With respect to granting a commercial API license to a direct competitor: we might not. It kind of depends on the specific product, any relationship we have with them, whether we complement each other or not, etc. In the case of a truly direct competitor (and, so far, we have very few), we probably wouldn't. And I don't see that as malicious on our part: why should we burn bandwidth and CPU cycles sending stuff directly to their servers?
  • Stewart, my concern is at the user level. If I spend hours and hours tagging my photos in flickr this data is not at present able to be exported to the best of my knowledge. It is essentially locked into flickr.
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SitePoint Blogs » Flickr, Zooomr and API Parity

  • This proposal that API openness between competing services should be a two-way street was applauded by O’Reilly’s Marc Hedlund, and dubbed "API Parity".


    While the symmetry and inbuilt fairness of the arrangement does look attractive at a glance, and should resolve the issue to the benefit of the users quite neatly in the Flickr/Zooomr case, I’m not convinced this is a conclusive solution to this issue in general.

  • as Nicholas Carr points out, vendor lock-in is a proven business strategy that is unlikely to die anytime soon.
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13 Dec 07

[cs/0612047] Social Browsing on Flickr

  • Through an
    extensive analysis of Flickr data, we show that social browsing through the
    contacts' photo streams is one of the primary methods by which users find new
    images on Flickr.
25 Nov 07

Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser

  • Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
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