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Flickr, Instagram, the Social Graph and Interfaces effecting behaviour

Posted in Flickr, photos on 6 January, 2012 | 2 Comments »

And so the final part of the Instagram trilogy, that of Social Graph, register and where’s my sodding profile page?! Instagram has two interesting features, no privacy controls and no straightforward website or profile page. The latter means it essentially lives on your phone (although web & desktop API driven clients exist), at a pinch [...]

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Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument

Posted in Flickr, photos on 5 January, 2012 | 9 Comments »

So, part 2 of a trilogy of posts it seems, and a response to the responses. Yesterday pulled up a couple of view-points about Flickr and “proper” photography, I’m going to pull the same whole damn quote from Aaron that Paul did (sorry Paul)… “We did a lot of stuff wrong during my time at [...]

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My first Instagram Christmas, a nervous step away from Flickr

Posted in Flickr, photos on 3 January, 2012 | 4 Comments »

A curious thing happened this holiday season, I kinda fell in love with Instagram just a little bit, and out of love with Flickr, just a little bit. Which, given that I used to work at Flickr way back in the day is an odd feeling. When Instagram first came out I scoffed at it, [...]

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Flickr Photos now in Bing Maps …

Posted in Flickr, geotags, maps on 12 February, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Hot on the heels of Google, Microsoft have released their tech preview of using Flickr photos with maps. Only using just Creative Commons photos, so feels a little more Opt-In. More info here: Spatial Search: The Next Frontier I think John Allspaw sums it up pretty well with … “Fuck. Easily the coolest shit I [...]

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Flickr Photos now in Street View …

Posted in Flickr, geoblogging, google, maps, photos on 8 February, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Google have just updated their Street View to include Flickr Photos … … you can see this in action here. Flickr joins Panaramio and Picasa as a source of photos. Flickr has always had plenty of good quality geotagged photos, so this looks like a handy addition to the whole Street View thing. No word [...]

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Harder, Louder, Faster, from Flickr to The Guardian.

Posted in Flickr, guardian on 11 January, 2010 | 1 Comment »

From Working at Flickr to the new job at The Guardian … a not unsurprising transition. I count myself as very lucky, to have been able to work on Flickr, something that has effected so many peoples lives, bend its code in unexpected and unusual ways and mainly work with <3 amazing people … and [...]

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Last week on Flickr

Posted in Flickr on 29 October, 2009 | Comments Off

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Last week on Flickr

Posted in Flickr on 22 October, 2009 | Comments Off

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Last week on Flickr

Posted in Flickr on 15 October, 2009 | Comments Off

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Last week on Flickr

Posted in Flickr on 8 October, 2009 | Comments Off

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