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
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
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! First launched during the week of no-metafilter, Flickr is a new kind of social software application (in the tradition of
Friendster or
Orkut) - but, after making friends and forming
groups, it actually gives you something to do! Created by a team led by Mefi's own
sylloge, Flickr is also a collaboration focused Flash-based application that allows you to share picture files with friends, comment on them and post them
directly to
your weblog. An exposed
set of services is also leading to a host of interesting
ideas.
posted by vacapinta
on Mar 12, 2004 -
16 comments
