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Photosynth demo

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:43:01 GMT

Aggregating collective photography. Amazing.

Link: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/05/let-the-photosynth-demo-blow-your-mind.html

Telling stories online

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:00:04 GMT

An interesting study of the crossroads of disparate web services.

Link: http://designnotes.info/?p=1209

Get stats on your Flickr photos

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:31:13 GMT

I’ve been waiting for this feature.

Link: http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/12/13/stats-stats-baby/

Central Europe 2007

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:10:31 GMT

A cartographic representation of our recent trip through bits of eastern Germany and the Czech Republic.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasjon/sets/72157602665184484/map/

Flickr bugs

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:05:53 GMT

Either it’s really buggy over there today or someone with some mad skillz is still really unhappy about the whole “move to Yahoo! sign in” thing.

This morning I noticed every few pictures in my photo stream “belong to someone else.” The titles and descriptions are correct for the pictures of mine that should be there, and clicking through to the photo page shows everything is okay (though Amy just reported this isn’t always true).

For example this is page 4 of my Flickr stream. There are three pictures near the bottom titled “Blackberries,” “Green,” and “Amy takes a picture.” If you click through to their photo pages (as of 8:52 this morning) you’ll see what I’m talking about.

More Flickr forum threads: 1, 2 (official thread), 3, 4, 5

Update from Flickr (9:55am):

Normalcy should be returning. You can Shift + Reload the view of your photostream to force it, but we’re also flushing the system from this end. It seems that one of our caching image servers was polluted during a network outage in the wee hours. I just want to reiterate, the site was not hacked! It was a bum image caching server.

... and a quick Shift+Apple+Reload on my browser shows that they’ve got it fixed. Good response time Flickr.

Update (2/19): Same bug again.

Building an online community is like planning a party

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:01:10 GMT

Someone needs to chaperone until the crowd can take care of itself.

Link: http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-interview/caterina-fake

Flickr: Camera Finder

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:49:55 GMT

Flickr takes its camera use data and builds a database of popular cameras complete with graphs showing the rise and fall of various types. Awesome stuff.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/