Flickr Home Page - Not for everyone

The comments on this post point to a possible resentment from the flickr community about the new home page. I don't think this will be a big deal, people never really spend more than a few seconds at the home page.

The interesting thing in this post is that it mentions that
"Next up for Flickr is a redesign of the photo pages that house each image."

That on the other hand seems to be a redesign that could have serious backlash. I think that there are a couple things that could be tweaked. What I hope they don't do is move the images closer to the left margin the way that yahoo recently did with its news pages.


for a very slow review of the changes there is a video on youtube

buycyles

I've been intrigued by the use of bicycles as advertising since before I was interested in riding a bike. A development on this front today.

Interestingly enough, after I've decided to give in to my interest in making photos from a bike, today I found out about flickr's bike photo advertising campaign. [story here]. Obviously, the bike is gaining major currency in the greenwashed, washed out economy and it won't be too long before the largest advertising campaigns start exploiting bikes.

Goodbye Old Flickr Home Page!

I'll miss you!

Chess Scans

Search:Chess Scans



OK, so news stories about flickr aren't that frequent. I'm going to supplement this blog with interesting searches that people have done on my photo stream.

another earth

Browsing photos on a map is probably the biggest tease going on the 2.0 right now. While we are starting to see some applications/sites all of these have some kind of problem. Flickr's map is too grainy and the interface is crabby.

Panaramio is the easiest way to get your photo on Google Earth (google owns Panaramio), but not the easiest way to browse photos on Google Earth. There is a long lag time between when a photo is uploaded and when it is "Published" to google earth. Buried in their site is a link to view all Panarmio photos in Google Earth(opens in Google Earth). But this isn't how they see or promote their site (plus they have a serious server problem).

Even though there is already kmlphotos.metaltoad which lets you see your flickr photos on google earth (probably the best solution so far), I was excited to see that

Earth Album (Article @ Guardian)

has found another way to mash flickr photos on to a map. Even though their interface is similar to flickr's and has ugly advertising, it shows that the tech world knows that there is no great way to view photos on a map, and that they're working on a way to streamline viewing of geotagged photos.