If you’ve been paying attention, or read the
Guardian
today you’ll be aware of Flickr;
an online photo gallery creation community. Most important word – Community,
Flickr is a (mainly) digital photography hub. You sign-on,
for
free, and upload (via one simple
saf
tool) the cream
of you’re digital crop. Using tags and metadata Flickr
interprets you’re photography in various ways – posting the images in a private
or public domain, adding creative commons licence, adding information on date
and time of the capture as well as make and model of your camera. So you can
point your friends at certain drink/drunk galleries, while the whole world can
see your wittle doggie photos. The rest of the world can find your photos via
tags, or through tags or via user name. For
example, search for “Scotland” on flickr, and browse to page 3 or so – you’ll
find a dozen callumalden’s in there. Or try “Insch” + “Drinking Games” – is that
me? Oh dear.Anyway, I’ve
‘integrated‘
Flickr into this iBlog, see the main page (right
hand navigation), also – it’s going to take the place of the galleries I took
weeks to compile via Photoshop and various thumbnail creation tools. Why?
Because it is so damn simple, it’s
very
Apple basicly; nice community feel to
the support forums, and check out their blog. It’s so homely.
I’ll leave the final words to today’s Guardian
article:

It is hard to avoid the buzz
online about Flickr, a photo
organising/
sharing service yet to celebrate
its first birthday. In tones echoing

the optimism of early 90s
internet culture, enthusiasts say the

service makes possible new kinds
of conversation and
community. For others, it shows
how the efforts of individuals can

be harnessed to help organise
the internet.
Flickr’s growth has matched this
excitement. Though still in beta,

it has 245,000 members, and is
growing at 5-10% a week,
according to co-founder Caterina
Fake. “We have 3.5m photos
online – members upload up to
60,000 new photos a
day.”

_-
“Tag
Team”
from
The
Guardian
(Link)