A History of Flickr 88
Ant writes "USA Today has an interesting look back at how Flickr was born. From the article 'Caterina Fake knew she was on to something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing. "It turned out the fun was in the photo sharing," she says. Fake scrapped the game. She and her programmer husband, Stewart Butterfield, transformed the project into Flickr. In less than two years, the photo-sharing site -- now owned by Internet giant Yahoo! -- has turned into one of the Web's fastest-growing properties.'"
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:3, Informative)
You can put up a photo and sent the URL to your friends. Unlike many other photo sharing sites the viewer doesn't have to join. By default every photo is viewable by anyone, though you can restrict this if you wish.
Flickr is great for photographers. If you're a keen photographer working only in black and white, or in macro or whatever, you'll find photographers to share your work with. Every photo can be given descriptive
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:3, Interesting)
One of my friends is a freelance photographer, and he will spend an hour and a half setting up a shot with his light meter, when most of what he is setting up for could be worked out in photoshop in ten minutes, but he would rather have the feeling of doing art, and not something that any slob could do in 10 minute
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:1, Troll)
Snobbery?
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:2)
http://flickr.com/photos/mikebabcock/tags/autoshow [flickr.com]
Those photos are also parts of the "autoshow" groups and one in the "cadillac" group, where others have put together photo albums as a collaboration effort.
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:1)
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector (Score:2, Interesting)
Mailing address (Score:3, Funny)
Email address (Score:1)
Re:Email address (Score:2)
Flickr alternative in case you really need control (Score:2, Informative)
I think of all the image organization programs and services I've used (and there's a whole lotta them!), Gallery has brought me the most pleasure. I had more or less put down my digital camera, because I found sharing, storing and cataloging photos publicly too much of a pain. Being able to shar
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:3, Insightful)
Gallery 2 is a great piece of image organizing and hosting software, though. It's just missing the social aspect that Flickr has.
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:1)
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:2)
Gallery is nice, but
a) Gallery without ImageMagick available sucks sucks sucks. My webhoster doesn't provide ImageMagick and the scaled down images made with the built-in GD look blurry. Flickrs photo scaling is worldclass. The scaled down images look clear and sharp.
b) Only you and a few other people know about your site unless you some famous internet personality.
c) Gallery is an photoalbum application while Flickr is a social photo sharing service.
d) Gallery2 seems
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:Flickr alternative in case you really need cont (Score:2)
-b
Re:wth (Score:2, Funny)
Re:wth (Score:2)
Re:wth (Score:1)
Which one?
Re:wth (Score:1)
As a regular flickr users... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:As a regular flickr users... (Score:2)
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:2)
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:1)
Actually, that's what Yahoo! did when they bought Geocities.
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:1, Insightful)
It could only be successful as an offering from a company that had other ways to make money. Thus the Yahoo purchase.
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:1)
Re:The only thing wrong with Flikr is... (Score:2)
If the idea of single sign-in worries you, then I don't know where you can go -- Google's on board [google.com], Microsoft has Passport, and other companies really enjoy the "stickiness" that such capabilities bring.
We have clicks! We have eyeballs! But profits? (Score:3, Interesting)
What's wrong with this picture? Where's the revenue? It's a free hosting service, and they boast about how many people take up their offer of free image hosting.
Does Flickr actually make money for Yahoo?
Subscriptions (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Subscriptions (Score:2)
I'm a huge, huge fan of flickr, but when discussing recently with a friend she proposed it was a move back to the 'takeover' (Yahoo in this case)
Re:Subscriptions (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Subscriptions (Score:1)
Darn. (Score:2)
Re:Subscriptions (Score:1)
Re:We have clicks! We have eyeballs! But profits? (Score:2, Interesting)
As they expand their pay-for services, such as printing and DVD back-up I've no doubt I will be happily paying for those too.
Re:We have clicks! We have eyeballs! But profits? (Score:1)
Google is doing the exact same thing - they probably don't make a lot of money on Google Earth or Google Desktop Search but it gets people thinking that their company is the one place to
Simple answer ... (Score:1)
http://www.hetemeel.com/einstein/86180.jpg [hetemeel.com]
Image scraping (Score:3, Informative)
Don't forget licensing. (Score:2)
Re:Don't forget licensing. (Score:1)
This Web 2.0 hype... (Score:1, Insightful)
What happened to the engineer (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What happened to the engineer (Score:2)
Probably not. He was most likely a paid employee with all rights transferred. My guess he probably got sweet FA above his cheque.
Remmeber children it's not that you have the idea or do the work it's the ability to prove ownership
Re:What happened to the engineer (Score:2)
Re:What happened to the engineer (Score:3, Insightful)
In his own words: "Cal Henderson has been a web applications developer for far too long and should really start looking for a serious job. Originally from London, England, he currently works at Ludicorp R&D, makers of Flickr, in Vancouver, Canada and Sunnyvale, California. He's been working on Flickr from the day it started development (on his laptop) to the present day (where it's now the "Offical website o
Re:What happened to the engineer (Score:1)
Totally Love Flickr (Score:2, Informative)
The interface is nice and simple, the Organize tool is cool, sets are easy to create, and you can easily follow what your contacts are uploading.
Plus set your account to follow other groups/tags/people.
It's really neat, plus it's a great way to archive the photos you display on your site/blog/whatever.
A lot of people do upgrade to the pro account, as the free account only gives you 2 sets, and it's worth
this sound like corporate self-promotion (Score:2, Insightful)
Not Slashdot's fault (Score:2)
The problem is that some stupidly large chunk of articles in news sources *are* lightly-modified press releases. Because, well, that's just how news works these days.
All you're seeing is a reflection of what the news sources are doing.
Granted, Slashdot can focus more on blogs and so forth than news sources (honestly, the most interesting and in-depth articles do seem to usually come from sources other than conventional news articles). However,
Re:this sound like corporate self-promotion (Score:1)
Re:this sound like corporate self-promotion (Score:1)
The Important Question (Score:2)
Re:The Important Question (Score:5, Informative)
He spends a fair chunk of time talking about how flickr was built [flickrnation.com], the notes of which are really interesting for anyone concerned about scaling out a web app.
Re:The Important Question (Score:2)
I have to admit -- I followed that link expecting to see that he'd built a train between his house and Yahoo, not an AJAX app...
Re:The Important Question (Score:1)
The name is kind of weird to me... (Score:4, Interesting)
Apart from the name it is a clever service, especially the tag-thing, like http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sluts/ [flickr.com]
Re:The name is kind of weird to me... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:The name is kind of weird to me... (Score:2, Informative)
In British English a faggot is either a kind of meatball or a bundle of sticks.
There's also another meaning of fag: a younger boy who acts a servant for an older boy at some English public (Amer. Private) schools.
It could be that it's just at Eton or it could be some others but what do I know, I'm only a Grammar School oik.
Best way to share images (Score:1)
Flickr alternatives ? (Score:2)
I love flickr, but I love my pictures more and would rather feel safer hosting them on my own
(I checked about a month ago on sourceforge, freshmeat, and hotscripts
Thanks!
Re:Flickr alternatives ? (Score:2)
I haven't used Gallery 2. I would look into flickr more but it won't host videos and I need them to be kept together.
Coppermine (Score:2)
It is free and written in PHP. It runs well on my hosting services web site.
Flickr Question (Score:2)
Is there anyway to sort through flickr by both creative commons license AND by interestingness?
I ask because I spend a huge amount of time on flickr looking for images that I use in my classroom presentations [colingregorypalmer.net] (also CC licensed) and it seems like madness that I have to look at ALL the 'physics' photos to try and find the few good ones.
-CGP314 on Flickr [flickr.com]