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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

"Flickr is still very valuable. It has a massive database of geotagged, Creative Commons- and Getty-licensed, subject-tagged photos. But sadly, Yahoo's steady march of incompetence doesn't bode well for making use of these valuable properties. If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe, covering everything it comes in contact with in watered-down shit.

Flickr's last best hope is that Yahoo realizes its value and decides to spin it off for a few bucks before both drop down into a final death spiral. But even if that happens, Flickr has a long road ahead of it to relevance. People don't tend to come back to homes they've already abandoned."

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16 days ago by robertogreco

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Eugenio Carmi: The Bomb and The General (by Umberto Eco) - a set on Flickr

"Umberto Eco (b. 1932) is a novelist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980). Along with artist Eugenio Carmi, Eco has published three picture books, the first of which is The Bomb and the General, published in Italy in 1966, and then revised and reissued in 1988, at which time it was translated into English by William Weaver.

For more information on Umberto Eco's children's books, visit my blog:

http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2012/02/umberto-eco-bomb-and-general.html "

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18 days ago by robertogreco

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Flickr: Transport Timetables and Ticket SCANS.

"A group for people interested in railroad, bus and airline timetables and tickets. Extracts from historic and current schedules from North America, Australia and worldwide. Discuss urban and long distance rail and bus timetables. Shipping and ferry timetables are included.

SCANS of transport tickets and timetables are sort. Please do NOT post photos of people holding a ticket or timetable."

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26 days ago by robertogreco

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milwaukee bus passes - a set on Flickr

"Milwaukee weekly bus passes between the years of 1930-1979."

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26 days ago by robertogreco

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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

"This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification." The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks.

PART I: Classification and Its Discontents

Q: What is Ontology? A: It Depends on What the Meaning of "Is" Is.

Cleaving Nature at the Joints

Of Cards and Catalogs

The Parable of the Ontologist, or, "There Is No Shelf"

File Systems and Hierarchy

When Does Ontological Classification Work Well?

Domain to be Organized

Participants

Mind Reading

Fortune Telling

Part II: The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody

"My God. It's full of links!"

Great Minds Don't Think Alike

Tag Distributions on del.icio.us

Organization Goes Organic"

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4 weeks ago by robertogreco

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My first Instagram Christmas, a nervous step away from Flickr « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

"Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy Flickr. It makes me think about photography, inspires possible projects to play with, upload proper photos taken with my proper camera. But when there’s something happening (often involving the kids, a cat or a visual joke I know my friends will get) I find myself reaching for the iPhone and uploading to Instagram."

[Followed by: http://revdancatt.com/2012/01/05/instagram-and-flickr-the-one-where-i-refine-my-argument/ AND http://revdancatt.com/2012/01/06/flickr-instagram-the-social-graph-and-interface-effecting-behaviour/ ]

[More where those are from: http://revdancatt.com/category/flickr/ ]

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8 weeks ago by robertogreco

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Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops [Exclusive Q&A;] | Fast Company

"There's both a good and bad side to virality. Products with viral hooks that are so strong they coerce people to sign up--in order to achieve a huge initial viral rush--are obviously bad. Not only do they alienate users, they don't lead to a sustainable business. On the good side, you have organic growth, which comes as a natural byproduct of something that spreads simply because people like it--eBay, Hot or Not, and Flickr. I can't think of an antonym for it."

"The decision to make all the photos public versus private was motivated by the fact that conversations are where metadata happens."

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8 weeks ago by robertogreco

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Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a Social App Is a Very Bad Thing - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD

"Fake added emphatically that the worst thing a start-up social network can do is to buy advertising to attract users. Growth should happen because users find value in a site, and then get their friends to join, she said.

And if users don’t come? Start-ups should try harder to make a better product.

That’s why Pinwheel plans to only slowly let in the tens of thousands of people on its email list, Fake said. And it’s why Pinwheel will ask users to write original notes, rather than filling the many empty places on its map with existing location-based content from around the Web. “We’re not going to suddenly metastasize by adding Wikipedia content,” Fake said."

[See also the correction Caterina Fake makes in the comments.]

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive) | VentureBeat

"The Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site has just added Pinterest’s newly introduced do-not-pin code to all Flickr pages with copyrighted or protected images.

“Flickr has implemented the tag and it appears on all non-public/non-safe pages, as well as when a member has disabled sharing of their Flickr content,” a Flickr representative confirmed to VentureBeat Friday. “This means only content that is ‘safe,’ ‘public’ and has the sharing button enabled can be pinned to Pinterest.”"

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ab2525/FlickrFckr - GitHub

"Some brutally simple scripts to download a Flickr user's images in the highest quality.

I plan on making these a lot cleaner (eventually, hah).

Needs Ruby and the JSON and YAML gems"

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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Klynt

"Edit Rich Narratives
*Mixed Media Editing: Texts, images, audios, videos and hyperlinks
*Multiple Interactive Layers: Manage unlimited story nodes
*Visual Storyboard: Edit your storyboard like a mind map

Connect Your Story To The Web
*Mash-up Ready: Mix YouTube videos and FlickR images
*Facebook & Twitter Friendly: Share your favorite sequences on social networks
*Custom Maps: Geolocalize your content

Publish Anywhere
*Quick Publishing: Automatically export your final edit
*Embedable Anywhere: Show your program on any webpage
*Tablet and Mobile Device Compatible: iOS player available this Spring"

[See this project example "Journey to the End of Coal": http://www.honkytonk.fr/index.php/webdoc/ ]
[Related: http://nofilmschool.com/2012/02/advice-creating-transmedia-documentary/ ]
[See also Bear 71: http://bear71.nfb.ca ]

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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Mapping Main Street » A Collaborative Documentary Media Project [See: http://www.mappingmainstreet.org/participate/index.php ]

"Once you start looking, you'll notice Main Streets are everywhere and tell all kinds of stories. There's a Main Street in San Luis, Arizona that dead-ends right into the Mexican border. The Main Street in Melvindale, Michigan runs through a trailer park in the shadows of Ford's River Rouge plant, once the largest factory in the world. Main Street is small town and urban center; it is the thriving business district and the prostitution stroll; it is the places where we live, the places where we work, and sometimes, it is the places we have abandoned.

Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States."

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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Rhizome | The Never Forgotten House

"I rarely hear anyone boast about photographic memory anymore. It's less impressive today as we can all supplement our own brains with an algorithmic search and the internet's seemingly infinite archival capacity. But this is still a period of transition…"

"We could accumulate hundreds of thousands of images throughout our lives but they will never taste like anything. An image represents and verifies a memory but the rest is left to imagination. Every essential moment of a child's life is documented if he was born in the West. With digital album after album for every birthday, every Christmas, he will never struggle to remember what his childhood home looked like. That reaching, that vague warm feeling for a place one remembers but cannot see; that is a sense now growing extinct.

A child today grows up in a never forgotten house."

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december 2011 by robertogreco

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Beautiful Iceland « Flickr Blog

"Iceland is a dream destination for many travelers and nature photographers alike. Browsing through videos tagged with Iceland it becomes very evident why the glaciers, geysers, and the midnight sun have such a unique appeal."

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november 2011 by robertogreco

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straup/parallel-flickr @ GitHub

"parallel-flickr is a tool for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database backed website that honours the viewing permissions you've chosen on Flickr.

parallel-flickr is still a work in progress. It ain't pretty or classy yet but it works."

[See also: http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2011/10/14/pixelspace/#parallel-flickr ]

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november 2011 by robertogreco

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collision detection: "The tag is the soul of the Internet"

"Okay, enough of these stoner epiphanies! The point is that Instagram’s tags, primed by de Kerckhove’s provocation, made me think anew about the cognitive power of tags — their sense-making ability. But I also realized I haven’t seen designers do anything particularly interesting with tags in a while. I haven’t seen anything that helps me spy patterns in data/documents/pictures in similarly weird and fresh ways. Maybe tagging, as a discipline, hasn’t been pushed in very interesting ways. Or maybe I haven’t been looking in the right place? 
 
(Irony of ironies, I realize I’ve never bothered to tag my blog posts.)"

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september 2011 by robertogreco

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flickrgram - movieos

"The interesting thing to me is that these models -- "shoeboxing" verses Instaagram-style "lifestreaming" -- are two entirely different usage models for a photo sharing site. Flickr was built for the streaming case (it's got a photostream as the main thing you see) but recently the shoeboxing is rather swamping the streaming, and the two models just can't coexist in the same contacts list - the uploads of the shoeboxers will swamp the incoming streams of people who just want to follow streamers. Instagram, on the other hand, by utterly ignoring the needs of shoeboxers, has been able to build a much better streaming experience. 
 
It reminds me of Twitter, where the same thing has happened. The high-volume broadcast / at-reply people drown out the ambient "eating a sandwich" group of people that I quite liked getting the updates of."

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september 2011 by robertogreco

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction | The New York Public Library

"The French painter Paul Delaroche allegedly said "From today, painting is dead" when he first experienced Louis Daguerre's photographic process in 1839… 
 
Within a few decades the ease of mechanically capturing an accurate representation of someone or something became available and affordable to the masses. 
A century later the mechanical process became digital. 
People with cameras left the elevated site to change their film and process their negatives, replaced by others who instantly shared their photos of the barn with the world on Flickr. 
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.This is Joseph Kosuth's chair.This is a photograph of Joseph Kosuth's chair.Joseph Kosuth's chair (noun) is a piece of furniture consisting of a seat, leags, back, and often arms, designed to accommodate one person. 
Reality and representation. 
The indigenous people's souls were taken… 
"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn."

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august 2011 by robertogreco

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Bird Imprints - a gallery on Flickr
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august 2011 by robertogreco

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Flickr: Peoples Temple Gallery's Photostream

"Incredible trove of photographic documentation of Jonestown and the Peoples Temple on this & following pages:" — http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/102093626552762368

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august 2011 by robertogreco

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Cancer, 'Fixies' And Flickr Friendships : The Picture Show : NPR

"I still have never met Ezra in person, but I find it amazing. Amazing that in this age of compromised privacy and the collective angst we feel over sharing (or not sharing) and password protection, beautiful stories like Ezra's are out there, honest, raw and public — for all the world to see. 
 
It makes me love the Internet even more. How it equalizes, democratizes, eulogizes and preserves some very wonderful things. Like eulogies that we can all write on our own. 
 
That is a beautiful thing, my friends. I only wish my mother could have shared her own with the world, too."

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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The Seven Spaces of Technology in School Environments on Vimeo

"Matt Locke originally came up with the concept of the Six Spaces of technology (http://test.org.uk/2007/08/10/six-spaces-of-social-media/ ). I added a seventh earlier this year, Data Spaces, and have played around with how education could harness these spaces, and the various transgressions between them, for learning.

This short presentation tackles the potential of adjusting our physical school environments to harness technology even better. What happens when we map technological spaces to physical ones?

You can see more of the detail behind these thoughts over on the blog:

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2010/10/-cefpi-clicks-bricks-when-digital-learning-and-space-met.html "

[via: http://twitter.com/irasocol/status/86712955856629760 See also: http://www.notosh.com/2011/01/consultancy-new-schools/ via http://twitter.com/ewanmcintosh/status/86721281147404288 ]

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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Frank Chimero’s Blog - Sorting a Mass

"Right now, chronological ordering is the default way to arrange content online, & I wonder how that blanket presumption affects curation on the web. Does it make sense, because people check in frequently, or is it odd, like sorting a stack of photographs alphabetically by who is in them? There are indeed instances where sorting by time is the correct path, but it will be exciting over the next few months and years to see what happens to the web as we recognize the instances where the newest thing is not necessarily the most important thing. (And, as always, the additional problem on top of this: can this sorting process be automated?) 
 
But can you curate on the web? Most curation comes to a point through narrative, and is narrative possible on the web? Stories require a certain amount of linearity, and we all know how the web disrupts that. Maybe it is the same problem that video games have, where interactivity subverts storytelling…"

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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rep.licants.org, a virtual prosthesis for the online introvert - we make money not art

"rep.licants.org allows people to install a bot on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. The bot will combine the activity the user is already having on other channels such as youtube or flickr with a set of keywords selected by the user to attempt and simulate that person's activity, feeding their account with more frequent updates, engaging in discussions with other users and adding new people to their list of contacts."

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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Flickr vs Instagram - movieos

"I see two things in the Google Trends for Flickr vs Instagram. Firstly, I see that, compared to Flickr, Instagram is a meaningless blip.

Secondly, I see that Flickr hasn't done anything interesting enough to get noticed by Google for the entire time that Instagram has existed."

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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YouTube - Disruptive Heroes, Caterina Fake

Caterina covers several topics as she talks about hacking the organization and ‘going rogue’: intrinsic motivation, passion, conformism, control, schools, learning, entrepreneurship, organizations, systems, leadership, etc.

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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Welcome the Museum of Photographic Arts to the Commons! « Flickr Blog

"The newest addition to the Flickr Commons is the Museum of Photographic Arts. (A good fit for Flickr. Being a museum about photography and all.) In their own words, “Since its founding in 1983, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) has been devoted to collecting, conserving and exhibiting the entire spectrum of the photographic medium. The Museum’s endeavors consistently address cultural, historical and social issues“ 
 
The images already uploaded to their account are all stunning and often dreamy. Highlights from collection include photographs from William Henry Fox Talbot, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget and more. With every photograph they include information about the image and photographer to help you understand a little more about when it was created and how. Of course like every member of the Commons, they invite you to add more information about the photos by commenting and tagging. 
 
Enjoy the collection! It’s a stunner."

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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Oh is THAT right. - So why MLKSHK?

"There’s been chatter recently about the decline of Flickr as a social site, but I believe it has less to do with the design of /photos/friends and more to do with 1) how Flickr encourages uploading large sets of images; and 2) how Flickr has fostered a photography nerd culture. With the latter comes extra emphasis on the aesthetics of an image and the technology used to capture it. 
 
The pressure to compete over lenses and shutter speeds is missing from MLKSHK, as is some of the personal investment of ego that comes with sole authorship. Where a single post to Flickr says “look at this photo that I took”, a post to MLKSHK says “Hey, look at THIS thing.”5 
 
And there is a solid amount of social functionality built in to support community growth: likes, saves (i.e. reblogs), mentions, comments, and comment conversations."

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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Flourishes, Craftsmanship, Dates, History, and Flickr - Laughing Meme ["I fret about the warm bath of now-ness we seem to be currently living in; real time a synonym for ephemerality and disposability."]

"…giving you the ability to label your photo as being taken solidly 800+ years before anything most of us would describe as the invention of photography…a little silly. But I do love this photo of the Blue grotto…taken in 1890…

Fundamentally this split btwn system activity time, & human editable creation date models a world where the people who use your software do something other then use your software. You have to decide how you feel about admitting that possibility…

…if you visited that Blue Grotto photo you’ll notice date is listed as “This photo was taken some time in 1890.” That’s date granularity. Flickr taken dates come in 4 levels of granularity, exact, year-month, year, & circa.

…Circa is a flourish…sort of feature you only get when you care about craftsmanship…

Computers demand exactitudes by default, but it’s a laziness of which we are collectively guiltily that we’ve traded a few programmer & compute cycles for a rich & nuanced societal understanding of time."

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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pecha flickr

"Can you improv? Enter a tag, and see how well you can make sense of 20 random flickr photos, each one on screen for 20 seconds."

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may 2011 by robertogreco

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Welcome the San Diego Air & Space Museum to The Commons! « Flickr Blog

"The San Diego Air & Space Museum is loaded with great images from aeronautical history. The breadth of the collection is amazing with images from the earliest days of flight, historic planes and pilots, space travel, and everything in between."

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may 2011 by robertogreco

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timoni.org - The most important page on Flickr ["Is this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/"]

"For the TL;DRers, every suggested improvement supports these two goals: clear context, and easy navigation. Users want to know what* they’re looking at, and then easily go wherever they want to go next.* 
 
Flickr can have a serious competitive advantage if they make photo uploads easy to see and navigate: everybody likes photos, and likes seeing themselves in photos, and it’s even nicer to see photos all arranged on a page without visual cruft like status interruptions and article links. It’s also crucial to have different ways of viewing the photos: chronological is important, but so are groupings by date and contact type. 
 
In other words, Flickr still has the ability to kick ass in this arena. They just have to build it."

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may 2011 by robertogreco

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Tom Hume: Common lies of social software

"I've been mentally collecting "lies of social software"…So far I've come up with these, mainly based on my experiences w/ blogging, Flickr, Twitter & Facebook:

"Your friends are equally important". Dunbar pointed out that we have concentric circles of friends: 5 close ones, 15 acquaintances, 50 rough friends, etc. Yet in my friends lists on Twitter & Facebook, everyone's equal (& usually alphabetical). I like what Path have done around limiting size of your network, & Flickr concept of Family, Friends & Contacts - but what about software for just you & those 5 of your closest? Or for you and your other half?

"Your friends are arranged into discrete groups", w/ a corollary that these groups rarely change…

"You can manage hundreds of friends"…

"Friendship is reciprocal & equal". Some people are more important to me than I am to them, & vice versa; we might not like to face up to this in every day life but it's true nonetheless, & our digital tools don't reflect this…"

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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Five Card Flickr

"This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud & the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics. 
However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the old Nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos specified by a tag in flickr. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. 
When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom…Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story or use an embed code to add it to your own web site. 
What do they look like? What a fantastic question you ask! 
We have a growing collection of mixed bag stories…"

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons | conference.archimuse.com

"cultural heritage institutions, including archives, libraries, and museums, have been placing their collections in Web spaces designed for collaboration and communication. Flickr Commons is one example of a highly visible space where cultural heritage institutions have partnered w/ a popular social networking site to provide greater discovery to, access of, & opportunities to interact w/ image collections on a large scale. It is important to understand how to measure the impact of these kinds of projects. Traditional metrics, including visit counts, tell only part of the story: much more nuanced information is often found in comments, notes, tags, & other info contributed by the user community. This paper will examine how several institutions on Flickr Commons - LoC, Powerhouse Museum, Smithsonian, NYPL, & Cornell U Library - are navigating the concept of evaluation in an emerging arena where compelling statistics are often qualitative, difficult to gather, & ever-changing.

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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Everyday for iPhone

"Take a picture of yourself. Every day. Set reminders. Get into the habit. The more pictures you have, the better your Everyday app will be. 
 
Line up your face with an adjustable grid or use an overlay of the last picture you took. 
 
Publish to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr. Or have it upload automatically. 
 
Make a movie. You'd be surprised how great the effect of a time lapse video of your face can be. Watch yourself change, just like a real person." 
 
[via: http://lonelysandwich.com/post/4005075829/everyday-for-iphone ]

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march 2011 by robertogreco

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MondoWindow: Welcome to the first-ever site for the connected air traveler!

"MondoWindow is a platform for online, in-flight, location-based content and entertainment. 
It's a map that tells you where you are and what you're looking at as you fly. 
MondoWindow is launching in time for flights to SXSW. The beta will be live on Tuesday, March 8. Anyone can sign up for the beta here. 
MondoWindow was founded by Greg Dicum and Tyler Sterkel in 2010. Greg is a journalist and author; his books include the Window Seat series, about reading the landscape from the air. Tyler is a museum curator and interactive producer. 
MondoWindow has partnered with Stamen Design to create the first ever consumer internet property directed at the connected airline passenger."

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march 2011 by robertogreco

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Tate Muybridgizer Gallery

"The Muybridgizer is a free iPhone app available for download in the iTunes App Store. The Muybridgizer allows you to record an image sequence with your iPhone camera in the style of Eadweard Muybridge's iconic motion capture experiments. You can browse your captured sequences both as a static grid but also as frame by frame animation; speeding up, slowing down and reversing the direction of motion with swipes of your finger across the screen. Captured sequences can be shared via email or uploaded to the Flickr Muybridgizer Group which then will also appear in the gallery section of this microsite. The app is free for a limited period."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Flickr: LA Historic-Cultural Monuments

"The City of Los Angeles has over 500 designated "historical-cultural monuments" that define the cultural heritage of this city. A complete list of the Historic-cultural monuments is contained in the book: Landmark L.A (http://www.lfla.org/cgi-bin/store/8967.html) or online(http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/HCM/HCM.CFM). 
Help create a photo database of historic-cultural monuments in Los Angeles. Please follow the groups format: Namber of building or place as the title and the HCM number as the subtitle. You will have to look up the HCM number at one of the above references."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Alien Los Angeles « Flickr Blog
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february 2011 by robertogreco

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FlickrTrickle

"If you want to "trickle" your photos into Flickr instead of dumping in dozens of pictures at one time when your contacts will only see at most 5 in their "Photos From" tab, this is your tool. Instructions: Just upload your photos as private and add the tag "flickrtrickle" to them. Then visit this page and I'll pull your 5 oldest (by date posted) trickle photos. Hit the button and I'll update the date posted to the current time, remove the tag, and make the photo public. This way you can trickle in your photos as you see fit."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Cameras for kids

"And for the most part, he's been really good with it. He puts the cord around his wrist so the camera won't fall on the floor if it slips out of his hands. For the first few days, he was accidentially sticking his fingers in the lens area and that caused the little shutter that covers the lens when the camera is off to stick a little bit, but he stopped doing that and learned how to fix the sticky shutter himself. He sometimes gets stuck in a weird menu after pushing too many buttons, but mostly he knows how to get in and out of the menus. He knows how to use the zoom and can shoot videos. He also can tell when the battery is running out and knows how to remove the battery to recharge it. Giving an "adult" camera to a three-year-old may seem like a recipe for confusion and broken electronics, but I'm continually amazed at kids' thirst for knowledge and empowered responsibility."

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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Alexander Girard - Braniff Airlines playing cards, c. 1968. - a set on Flickr
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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Gamasutra - Features - Creating A Glitch In the Industry

"Q: This is like the unholy marriage of Animal Crossing & EVE Online.

SB: …That's actually a very good way [of describing it.] LittleBigPlanet is obviously an inspiration…in the aesthetics. I wish that we had a PS3 underneath this & that we're a lot better on 3D. But EVE, MOOs, & Animal Crossing have a cult following [here]

…I've never played EVE before…never got into it because it just seemed too hard to me. It's my favorite game to read about.

Q: Most games are boring to play & boring to read about. I'm not sure if EVE's boring to play; it's just an investment I don't want to make. But it's fascinating to read about.

SB: I've always imagined that while the fights can be exciting & it can be cool…to have victory in one of the fights, it's not really what it's about. I mean, people are playing the game to create the world. They're part of the corporations because they're buying into the agenda, even if it's roleplaying, against some other agenda. That's where the fun is."

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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Flicksquare

"FlickSquare helps you post your Foursquare checkin photos to your Flickr account automatically! 
Just follow the four steps below, checkin on Foursquare with a photo, and your photo should automatically appear on your Flickr account!"

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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flump - onairbustour - Simple Flickr image downloader - Project Hosting on Google Code

"flump is a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Unlink Your Feeds - There’s a better way.

"I have a vision of a new social networking paradigm. Handcrafted social networks. 
 
I imagine a world where people take each network for what it is and participate (or not) on those terms. Instead of a firehose slurry of everything buckets, I imagine separate streams of purified whatever-it-is-each-service-does. I envision users that post when they’re inspired & don’t mind skipping a few days if nothing particularly interesting comes up… 
 
I imagine people taking the extra 10 seconds to reformat a post for each service if the message is so relevant and important that it needs to show up more than once. I imagine being able to choose who I follow and what subset of their postings I get with a high degree of granularity. 
 
There may come a day when this vision gets implemented on the server side. When all the social networks give me fine grain control for hiding subsets of the updates sent out by my contacts. But until that day comes, it’s gotta be solved on the client side."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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historical del.icio.us - a set on Flickr

via: http://www.quora.com/Delicious-website/How-did-del.icio.us-evolve-from-a-personal-project-to-a-company

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Caterina Fake: WikiLeaks and Free at the New Museum

"Pervading the show is this sense of how the 'data' tells us something, but fails to capture the human drama, the story, the suffering, the lived lives behind the info gathered & arranged. Images of people caught on Google Maps "streetview" appear in Jon Rafman's work, Martijn Hendrik shows texts of people responding to video of Saddam Hussein execution; Joel Holmberg asks earnest questions on Yahoo! Answers – all show the gap btwn the impassive data-gathering technology, human inputs & the strange hybrid that is result of those interactions. The final quote in Magid's Becoming Tarden is from Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit: 
 
"All that time & trouble, & still the record is a superficial one: I see only how I looked in the fraction of a second when the shutter was open. But there's no trace of the thoughts & emotions that surrounded that moment. When I die & my memories die with me, all that will remain will be 1000s of yellowing photographs & 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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2010 End-of-the-Year Card

"The 2010 card is a personalized “physical mashup” that combines maps, photos, and business information. 
 
The front panel of the card is a laser-cut map of the streets around the recipient's address. Underneath is an interesting photograph that was taken around the same area. The envelope features a map of local businesses along with their Yelp ratings."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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airplane graveyard - a set on Flickr

"between 1997 and 1999, i made several visits to an aircraft scrapyard in the mojave desert. it's an incredible thing to walk right up to these giant machines and see their intricate workings laid bare. 
 
the black and white images were shot on a blistering august day, the temperature well over 110˚. kodak tri-x pan with a red #25 filter. 
 
color was shot on fuji velvia with a circular pola filter."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Memolane | Your time machine for the web

"Keep your memories alive. Capture photos, music, tweets, posts, and much more. View and share your entire online life in one place. Explore and search your history. "

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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PUMMELVISION

"Pummelvision flashes your life before your eyes using photos from Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Faces of the Amercian Civil War « Flickr Blog

"The Library of Congress just uploaded nearly 700 faces of the American Civil War, from the Liljenquist Family Collection. Most of the people in these photos are unidentified, so we’d love your help adding tags and comments if you have any information about these images. There is a lot of detail; you can search the collection for studio backdrops, personal notes found with the images, young people, Union or Confederate soldiers or group portraits."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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Flickr: Buses y camiones de Colombia's Photostream
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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Flickr: School Pictures From Around the World
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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Blurb: Make your own book. Make it great. [Related: http://www.magcloud.com and http://www.lulu.com]

"With Blurb, you’ll find all the tools you need to make your own photo book, whether you’re making a personalized wedding album, cookbook, baby book, travel photo book, or fundraising book. Count on bookstore-quality printing and binding, and a range of choices from Hardcover photobooks to Softcover paperbacks in an array of trim sizes. Use any of our free online bookmaking tools. Learn how to publish a book and much more with our free how-to tips and tutorials or watch our two-minute BookSmart video and see how easy it is to make a coffee table photo book. Be sure to register and subscribe to Blurb emails to get the news first on Blurb events and promo code coupon offers."

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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Magic tables, not magic windows – Blog – BERG

"A while back, in 2007, I wrote about ‘a lost future’ of touch technology, and the rise of a world full of mobile glowing attention-wells. 
 
“…it’s likely that we’re locked into pursuing very conscious, very gorgeous, deliberate touch interfaces – touch-as-manipulate-objects-on-screen rather than touch-as-manipulate-objects-in-the-world for now.” 
 
It does look very much like we’re living in that world now – where our focus is elsewhere than our immediate surroundings – mainly residing through our fingers, in our tiny, beautiful screens."

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october 2010 by robertogreco

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Thinking about social objects – confused of calcutta

"And that’s part of the reason I share some of the things I do via twitter: The music I listen to. The food I’m cooking or eating. The films I’m watching; the books I’m reading; the places I go to. Sometimes what I share is in the immediate past, sometimes it’s in the present, sometimes all I’m doing is declaring my intent. Because, paraphrasing John Lennon, life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. 
 
When we share our experiences of sights and sounds and smells, we recreate the familiar imaginary places we share with others. We use these digital objects as the seed, as one dimension of the experience to flesh out the rest of that experience. So we take the sound or image or location or even in some cases the smell, and we extrapolate it into a rich memory of that particular experience. Which is often a worthwhile thing to do, for all the people who shared that “imaginary place” with you."

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october 2010 by robertogreco

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falsehood - a set on Flickr
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september 2010 by robertogreco

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Flickr: Worth A Thousand Words

"Welcome! Upload images that tell a story, beg a question, answer an inquiry or spark the imagination. Inspired by the timeless creative illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg. (See "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick"). 
 
Photography is about telling stories through imagery. Sometimes those stories are best left unspoken."

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september 2010 by robertogreco

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Welcome NASA to the Commons « Flickr Blog

"NASA joins the Commons on Flickr today with three iconic sets spanning the US space agency’s 50+ year history. Their Commons account will feature photos from across the agency’s many locations and centers, chronicling the history of space and lunar missions, and the people and places of the organization."

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september 2010 by robertogreco

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Visitors « Flickr Blog

"They are among us! Need more "proof"? Check out the tag search results for alien architecture."

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september 2010 by robertogreco

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jeweled platypus · text · Grids of tubes and wires (the city and the internet) [via: http://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/21262061506]

"wrote an essay about how learning to use internet is like learning to live in city…for class where we read urban critics/philosophers/sociologists Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, & Georg Simmel…lived in 19th & 20th centuries, talked about: what happens to people when they move to cities, how it feels to live in dense urban centers, & whether “the city” is imaginary place…Some of their concerns about experience of mass urbanization are similar to concerns…about experience of mass internet use: dealing w/ infooverload, wandering in non-linear fashion, learning unfamiliar interfaces, developing less sensitivity to shocking sights, finding connections w/in fragmented communities, encountering thousands of strangers every day, & acting badly when anonymous. 
 
…resemblance btwn physical & virtual worlds is not surprising…“city is an archetype of human imagination”…social aspects of web modeled on places where many of its developers, entrepreneurs & designers live: SF, LA, NY…"

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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TRANSFORMATIONS — Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture: From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0 By Simon Lindgren

"This paper explores and illustrates how Benjamin’s analysis of the nineteenth century culture of consumption might contribute to an understanding of the new communal formations and self-reflexive subjectivities of the internet in the twenty-first century. Theoretically, this will be done with a specific focus on the concept of the flâneur as discussed in The Arcades Project (416-455), and on some lines of reasoning that are central to his essay on “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. The empirical emphasis will be on two examples of so called Web 2.0 technologies: the photo sharing service of flickr and the videoblogging functionality of YouTube." [via: http://jeweledplatypus.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/text/citynet.html]

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Viva il Pesce | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Bookmarked for this: "This photo was taken on August 3, 2010 in a mysterious place with no name, using an Apple iPhone." [with map!]

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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prettymaps

"prettymaps is an experimental map from Stamen Design. It is an interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources: 
 
All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a semi-transparent white ground on top of which all the other layers are displayed. 
Urban areas from Natural Earth both as a standalone layer and combined with Flickr shapefiles for cities and neighbourhoods. 
Road, highway and path data collected by the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. 
 
In all there are four different raster layers and six data layers (that means all the map data is sent in its raw form and rendered as visual elements by the browser) that may be visible depending on the bounding box and zoom level of the map."

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Flickr: imaginary pictures from tristan da cunha's Photostream

Bookmarked for the name: "imaginary pictures from tristan da cunha"

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Why some social network services work and others don’t — Or: the case for object-centered sociality :: Zengestrom

"Sometimes the ‘social just means people’ fallacy gets built into technology, like in the case of FOAF, which is unworkable because it provides a format for representing people and links, but no way to represent the objects that connect people together. The social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. And, in my experience, their developers intuitively ‘get’ the object-centered sociality way of thinking about social life. Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs. EVDB, Upcoming.org, and evnt focus on events as objects. LinkedIn, however, is becoming the victim of its own cunning: it started off thinking it could benefit by playing up the ‘social just means people’ misunderstanding. As Russell put it, 
 
"That was the “game” right? He who has the most contacts wins. At first you were even listed by the number of contacts you had, remember?""

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Magazine

"[Hunch] isn’t just helping people shop for cars—it is getting its users to volunteer a truly impressive amount of unique psychographic data...

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Gottlieb Jazz Photos - a set on Flickr

"Celebrated jazz artists come to life in photographs by William P. Gottlieb. His images document the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C., from 1938 to 1948, a time recognized by many as the "Golden Age of Jazz".

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august 2010 by robertogreco

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Invisible Cities, a project by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia

"By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented as individual nodes that appear whenever a message or image is posted. Aggregate activity is reflected in the underlying terrain: over time, the landscape warps as data is accrued, creating hills and valleys representing areas with high and low densities of data.

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

"Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph. Actually, that’s just rephotography. The “computational” part is when software helps out.

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Derek Powazek - Press the Magic Button

"If you use Twitter, you pay attention to your mentions – the tweets that include @yourusername – because that’s how you have conversations. And therein lies the problem, because anyone can tweet at you that way. Some of those people are batshit crazy like the Haight Street Guy, while others are just merely rude like the Conference Talker Guy.

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Frank Chimero — Public Tools and Your Private Stash

"Posting Gavin’s work without proper credit and link is a problem for him because he missed out on having a giant influx of new eyes on his work from an honest mistake. As a creative person, I love it when other people share my work and copy it to their respective places on this web. It’s at testament to how they enjoy it and it’s a sign of connection. Someone wanted to save that thing that I made, and that is incredible. But, it does me no good if it is displayed publicly without credit. With this in mind, I have a few small proposals:

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Upload to flickr from Tweetie 2 | GDZLLA

"Finally, a way to share your flickr photos with tweetie 2. Skip the image services like twitpic or yfrog. Keep your photos right where they belong, on flickr."

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june 2010 by robertogreco

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Locals and Tourists - a set on Flickr

"Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.

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june 2010 by robertogreco

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Stats applications in the App Garden « Flickr Blog

"Woo! Pro members have options for watching their view counts and stats with three applications we’ve noticed in the App Garden.

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may 2010 by robertogreco

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SKTCH - Generative drawing on your iPhone

"Instead of adopting traditional "brush" based drawing, SKTCH is about presets, created by a number of digital artists around the globe. Whether you decide to sketch circles, meshes, networks or use any of the 14 presets available, be inspired by the endless possibilities of generative sketches and compositions you are able to make using SKTCH.

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may 2010 by robertogreco

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