Flickr and Potluck Photos
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Posted 2 years, 11 months ago at 3:55 pm. 7 comments
Flickr is a Toy!
I got tired of how little interaction I could get from my old Gallery and decided to pay for a Flickr pro account. The most appealing feature of Flickr is its rapidly developed API (and the Web 2.0 user experience comes in the second), and that is probably why there are so many third-party flickr toys online. It’s so much fun just to read the developer forums and learn about different ways to interact with it.
Here’s a script to migrate from Gallery 1 to Flickr. I have not finished my switch process yet, there is something in the script that I want to change.
Wordpress Plugins:Flickr Post Bar , FAlbum
Potluck Photos
I have sort of posted these photos before, and here they are again on my new album.
Sky the Cat
Flickr is the best image hosting I’ve tried. The only bad thing about it is occasional downtimes, and slow server access. Overall, the features are quite advance and I love the tagging system.
Till now, I still don’t get the meaning of Web 2.0, what’s that??
Web 2.0 isn’t really a standard, so there’s no one-line definition of it.
It’s more like a brainstorm of ideas of how the web should transform. I guess the key is to put more emphasis on users, rather than technology. Google Maps, Flickr, digg, technorati, tagging, blogs, bittorrent, AJAX are all examples of Web 2.0.
I made it sound like a religion.
Holy crap! awesome Flickr integration! :o I still haven’t bothered getting any kind of gallery integration because I haven’t been satisfied with anything I’ve seen. Oh, and I’m lazy. :) Flickr’s good, but I don’t like the idea that you run out of space and lose images, eventually.
With flickr, you don’t run out of space (unlimited storage) and they don’t remove your photos. The limitation of free accounts is the monthly upload bandwidth, and only the most recent 200 photos will be displayed (but you don’t loose your images).
That said, as a storage, flickr isn’t any better than a locally installed gallery. It’s only for people who are into the communities and “flickr” all the time.
omg. you don’t lose your images? omg. i was under a huge misunderstanding. THANK YOU, for clearing that up! :D
/me flocks to flickr
But remember only the most recent 200 photos will be displayed! Don’t blame me if you end up upgrading your a/c! :sick_ee:
so they don’t delete them, but they lock them up in cyberspace until you’re willing to dish the dollars. gotcha. Yahoo!, the pusher man. First 200’s always free. :)