Meet Retrievr... Web 1.0 surrenders. Draw a sketch, and instantly, Flickr images that look like your sketch magically appear. It works so well, it's a little disconcerting. Prizes awarded for people who can generate the most inappropriate search results.
posted by Jimbob
on Jan 2, 2006 -
51 comments
Andy Rosen:
I was a rock photographer working in London 1976-1984. This is my private collection. These pics have been stored since the Punk Days. This is the first time they can be seen in 25 years. His
Clash and
London Punks sets.
posted by KevinSkomsvold
on Dec 17, 2005 -
16 comments
23. It's like Flickr,
a lot like Flickr--and maybe better. Better at some things.
Stories. Upload limits.
The layout. Ordering prints. They are doing things from the beginning that Flickr worked a couple years to figure out in the
first place. Flickr of course is
way ahead of 23 in numbers (people and money). Does it make sense to challenge that lead? (And to do so with an
overt knock-off?) If 23 provides a better service, should they lose out for being second to the party? How can they pay their
debt of gratitude to Flickr for being the obvious inspiration and an open-book instruction manual, and should they? When does the flattery of imitation become legitimate--or illegitimate--competition? Notice in the
terms they claim ownership of the concept and the design. Can 23 apply for any of the street cred Flickr may have given up in favor of being Yahoo!ed? Is it reasonable to expect better work from a
scrappy upstart than a happy sell-out? Can two successful photo sharing sites
co-exist, or join forces? Is there enough community to support
more than one
good one?
posted by airguitar
on Nov 26, 2005 -
32 comments
Sketchplanet.com "is a new web service based around sketches. Taking some obvious cues from Flickr (e.g. tags, ability to comment etc.) Sketchplanet is an online sketching network where people can draw whatever they like, add titles, comments, tags, save favourites and more."
posted by gen
on Oct 11, 2005 -
17 comments
Flickr Memry blends the classic memory game with Flickr images. Enter a subject tag, play memory (4x4 or 6x6), and then view or mail the originals if you like. (flash)
posted by hypersloth
on Oct 7, 2005 -
14 comments
Playing Flickr is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the 11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam. Diners in Restaurant 11 can use their mobile phones to submit a keyword of their choice, which will later appear on the surrounding screens with corresponding Flickr photographs tagged with that word or words.
posted by fandango_matt
on Sep 23, 2005 -
7 comments
Shutterbook - "drag and drop photo sharing." A flash-based Flickr-esque photo community..."
The service is similar to Flickr before Yahoo and while it is in an open beta at the moment, there will be a cost for the premium version..."
posted by tpl1212
on Sep 9, 2005 -
22 comments
Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off! (by Wired News). "A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic "mass suicide" to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo." Welcome to the Flickr Accounts Mass Suicide Countdown group -
Flick Off.
posted by webmeta
on Aug 30, 2005 -
91 comments
Good journey, Joop. "Joop was our handsome goodhearted 'boerenfox' (farmer's fox terrier). For three good years, he lived with us in the small town of Paterswolde, The Netherlands.
We found Joop in 2002 in
an animal shelter in Zuidwolde. Joop was a canine supermodel."
The
Dog Log shows
Joop's life in pictures and his human's in words. Joop passed away August 8, 2005 from cancer and has quite a following on
Flickr.com. Being the owner of a 14-year-old dog, the display of support really touched me and the photos are beautiful.
posted by VelvetHellvis
on Aug 9, 2005 -
10 comments
They hate Flickr for it's Freedom. An
ISP (and government controlled monopoly) in the
United Arab Emirates has decided to ban access to Flickr for it's citizens, apparently due to the complaints of a couple of
UAE expats in the
UK and
Canada. Of course, said blockage won't apply to them. Most interestingly, they blame the rest of the world's non-flesh-fearing photographers as opposed to their ISP (and by proxy their own oppressive government.) Now Flickr joins
Skype, AtomFilms, Friendster, AOL, and anything from Israels top-level domain, as
outlawed content and services in the UAE (related study
here). Well, if they don't care, why should we? Via
linkfilter.
posted by rzklkng
on Jun 22, 2005 -
28 comments
Chines government loves Flickr interface! So, Chinese government copies Flickr interface? So similar that Flickr users have no problem joining and creating accounts. Quickly, they have the most popular photo:
The kitchen sink. As one Chinese user writes "evrything is free in china , you know ,4 example the software that microsoft made"
posted by vacapinta
on Jun 5, 2005 -
27 comments
GeoBloggers The natural extension of Google and Flickr so that
personalized maps are created of geotagged photos. Add "geo:lat=xx.xxxx", "geo:lon=xx.xxxx" and "geotagged" to your Flickr tags and they go into the system. The possibilities are pretty wide open.
Ain't technology grand?
posted by fenriq
on May 18, 2005 -
20 comments
I recalled a few of the Flickrazzi's who post the "how-to's" of their
daily lives. For example,
7-how-7 works for a production company that produces blow-up dolls for the
entertainment film and commercial industry (via
BoingBoing today),
underbunny works as a mortician,
rickenbacker documents his life in fast food, and then there's a variety of active duty military folk who are documenting the mundane "over there", like
ob1left,
nevadog,
At Ease,
Doc Torres,
enlisted cowboy,
Nukeit1,
JeffG,
Luodanli, and the
homsar. But if blogging at work can be bad, than I'm sure taking photos at work and sharing them with the interweb HAS to be worse.
posted by rzklkng
on Apr 21, 2005 -
35 comments
Flickr Doubles the Stakes with their new offerings for Pro users. People with existing Pro accounts will have two GB of upload capacity per month, a subscription length of double what they paid for, and two free pro accounts to gift to friends.
posted by quasistoic
on Apr 18, 2005 -
49 comments
Loose lips sink ships!!!1 (There be images, some quite big here) I suspect a lot of MeFi shares my obsession with
propaganda (and propaganda-style)
posters,
both domestic and foreign, as well as the
photoshops that the
Something Awful or
Fark crowds generate. CoolGov has a link today to the
Office of the National National Counterintelligence Executive and their Anti-Espionage
poster collection.
Some are great, some are almost
pure propaganda, and some show how
obsessed with secrecy our government has become. That lead me to Google to look for posters on the
*.gov and
*.mil domains. Check out the posters for
"Venemous Snakes of Afghanistan and Pakistan", or what the
well dressed airmen is wearing (*note the "Essentials"), posters from the NOAA telling you that
"lightning kills", the
Code of Ethics for Government Officers and Employees, and this one telling GI's why
smoking could kill them.
posted by rzklkng
on Apr 18, 2005 -
22 comments
