Tag Archive: Flickr

Old Fashioned Lab Accidents

Occasionally, when I don’t have an appropriate photo in my own archive for one of my blog postings, I’ll head over to Flickr and look for an appropriate creative commons licensed photo. Today, I stumbled across a great set of photos while looking look for something related to “lab”. I was thinking chemistry lab, but [...]

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LOC & Flickr

Getting caught up on a back log of reading and office work today. I found an interesting view on the recent addition of Library of Congress Photos on Flickr over at the Black Start Rising blog: How the Library of Congress Screwed Up By Putting Its Photos on Flickr. The “Amazing Photo!” comment is dead [...]

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First Flickr Now SmugMug

I was quite surprised tonight when I tried to head over to my photography website (hosted by SmugMug) only to be greeted by this: What are the odds of two major photo websites both going down within the same week? The SmugMug outage must have been pretty system wide because all their services were down. [...]

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Flickr Yo-Yo

Down, Up, Down, Up-ish, Down, Up again….that was the fun that the Flickr Ops team was having yesterday and this morning. A source of mine at Yahoo confirmed that the whole team was in all weekend long to get the site backup after this weekend’s outage. Side Blur: Stay tuned for an announcement this week [...]

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Flickr "Market Research"

Today I came across an interesting blog entry about how Flickr used the meta data in the images of it’s database to publish a “Market Research” study on camera popularity (scroll down to the bottom of the Flicker page for the interesting stuff). So Flickr mined their image database and pulled out the model info [...]

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