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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'flickr'
➠ July 18, 2012
Flickr's Engagement Problem
Sadly, this is all true. Flickr isn’t where my friends are any more, so it’s no fun to post/browse.
➠ June 25, 2010
➠ June 14, 2010
Fittr Flickr Extension for Chrome
Fab site-specific Chrome extension to improve Flickr. Lightbox view is super nice. (Bonus points for removing the “by Yahoo!” from the Flickr logo!)
➠ May 21, 2010
Flickr/Gource
Seven years of Flickr source control, visualized. I think I would make my laptop weep if I attempted to run gource against the (16 gigabyte!) Slide git repo.
➠ May 18, 2010
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping.
Kellan on Flickr and their attitude to your contributions to the site: You can programmatically get back everything you add *and then some*
➠ March 25, 2010
Fluidr / RodBegbie's favorites
Loving “Fluidr” as an interface for browing Flickr. Here, check out my Flickr favourites as an example.
➠ November 30, 2009
➠ September 14, 2009
Bassets Being Bassets - a gallery on Flickr
Love love LOVE Flickr’s new gallery feature. Curate a collection, selecting from the whole of Flickr’s massive photoset. Here’s my first example, a sampling of the best basset hound shots.
➠ May 9, 2009
Mum & Dad at Flickr Turns 5.25
We were wandering round SF with my parents, not quite sure what to do to pass the time until dinner, when I looked at my phone and saw Rev Dan Catt's tweet about the Flickr Turns 5.25 party.
Apart from the occasional concern that they were the oldest people there, they had a great time! A couple of free beers and some t-shirts later, and they were happy. (OK, it was mostly the free beer.)
Hurrah for the Good Ship Flickr! (And thanks to Cal for using his last Polaroid for this photo!)
➠ April 14, 2009
➠ March 3, 2009
The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You
Flickr now serves up Panda APIs so you can build your own rainbow-vomiting app. (Don’t forget that Flickr feeds also come in LOLCODE flavours)
➠ February 10, 2009
Flickr of Inspiration
My “review” of Flickr, from five years ago, when it didn’t do photo hosting, and was instead a chatroom where you could paste graphics from your shoebox into conversations. My, the concept of an open social web with APIs excited me at the time.
Happy birthday, chaps!
➠ December 16, 2008
Not quite what I had in mind.
George Oates’s tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr’s behalf.
➠ November 7, 2008
➠ September 12, 2008
Hack Day Display
Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.
➠ August 13, 2008
➠ June 30, 2008
➠ June 18, 2008
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter
That’s the way to do it. “Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!”
➠ May 5, 2008
➠ April 15, 2008
➠ March 11, 2008
➠ February 22, 2008
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
Get an occasional email containing photos you uploaded to your Flickr account a year earlier. Micronostalgia. Lovely!
➠ January 16, 2008
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)
US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone’s a winner.
➠ January 14, 2008
Happy Birthday, Sheriff George!
Another social software village I’m a member of: Basset hound owners on Flickr. There’s a great community forming of basset owners commenting on each others’ photos, and here, celebrating the birthday of another Flickrer’s dog!
➠ December 13, 2007
Stats for your account | flickr.com
Flickr launches photo stats — get access and referrer information. Before today, I had no way of knowing that one of my photos is the current Google No. 1 hit for “santa cock”. Thanks, Flickr.
➠ December 5, 2007
➠ October 24, 2007
Flickr: Photos from etchasketchist
Etch-a-Sketch art on Flickr. Some stunningly detailed stuff in here!
➠ October 23, 2007
➠ October 4, 2007
➠ September 19, 2007
Flickr: Ye photers!
Lovely Flickarrrrr Eastarrrrr Egg for “Talk Like a Pirate Day”
➠ August 22, 2007
➠ July 19, 2007
MOO | Stickers - Print stickers using your images
MOO launch tiny wee custom stickers in a nice sharable form. Ordered myself a set.
➠ April 23, 2007
Flickr: 24 hours of Flickr
Day-long photo project on May 5th to create a book and “sponsored event”.
➠ March 18, 2007
Pixels to Penguins
Aron Atkins’s first-prize-winning Flickr+MIDI+Tux mashup from BarCampBoston2’s Programming Contest. Enter a one-word keyword and hit the button.
➠ February 8, 2007
Pipes: Rewire the web
Wicked cool RSS/Atom masher-upper from Yahoo. Nice GUI and mapping model, which means making a Boing Boing feed without Xeni Jardin can essentially be a drag’n’drop operation.
➠ January 25, 2007
Flickr Ramps up Triple Tag (Machine Tags) Support.
Good explanation from RevDanCatt of the awesome potential of Flickr’s new “Machine Tags”. Also a great example of a company watching what their users were doing, and working out a way to enhance that behaviour and crank up the awesomeness at the same time.
➠ January 18, 2007
TagMaps - World Explorer
Wicked cool use of Flickr’s geotagging — Overlay maps with the tags most commonly used on photos taken at those locations.
➠ January 4, 2007
➠ December 12, 2006
Flickr Christmas Easter Egg
Add a note that says “ho ho ho hat” or “ho ho ho beard” to any of your photos on Flickr to Christmas them up!
➠ November 28, 2006
Toilet Delight on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
People think I exaggerate about how dull my hometown of Tillicoultry is. So, for you doubters, here’s a “news”paper headline from last year. The top story? Joss Stone had stopped at a pub in Tillicoultry for a wee. Hold. The. Front. Page.
➠ November 22, 2006
DigiCam Geotagging with ZoneTag
This is a cool new feature in ZoneTag: Gather up your location information in your cellphone (either with a Bluetooth GPS, or just by cell-tower/location matching), then upload photos taken with your regular camera to Flickr and have ZoneTag geotag them automagically.
➠ November 8, 2006
➠ October 19, 2006
My drive home from work -- Geotagged on Flickr
With little regard for public safety, I snapped a bunch of shots with my cellphone on my way home from work, which are lovingly (and automagically) placed along my route via the brilliance of Zonetag and Flickr.
➠ October 12, 2006
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org)
Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It’s a decent-ish camera, and a great phone.
➠ October 6, 2006
beth on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
My lovely chum Jill Bernard is currently drawing anti-drug animal poems, and they’re making me laugh.
➠ September 19, 2006
moo | we love to print
Moo have launched their Flickr Minicards: Get high-quality personal mini business cards printed with your photos on the back. Flickr Pro account holders can get 10 for free. The website is pretty nifty too.
➠ September 5, 2006
RoboGEO: Map Your Photos
Software to merge the timestamps on your photos with the route file from your GPS to automagically geocode your photos ready for Flickr.
➠ September 4, 2006
Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map
My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.
➠ July 18, 2006
➠ June 2, 2006
➠ June 1, 2006
No Shouting on Flickr at Binary Bonsai
Cunning social tweak on Flickr comments — ANY ALL CAPS SENTENCES GET CONVERTED TO LOWERCASE.
➠ May 16, 2006
Flickr: Advanced Photo Search
Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!
➠ April 29, 2006
➠ April 27, 2006
➠ April 1, 2006
FlickCentral: What's with all the CATS?!
Superb AprilFool from Flickr — The “interesting” photo pages are only showing kittens. Extra points for respecting users’ timezones, so the hack only goes into effect for the 24 hours that is April 1st for you!
➠ March 3, 2006
➠ February 28, 2006
➠ January 23, 2006
➠ January 13, 2006
➠ January 10, 2006
➠ January 8, 2006
➠ January 3, 2006
➠ October 25, 2005
Flickr.Net Screensaver
Flickr screensaver for Windows. Rather nicely, it displays different photos on each monitor if you’ve got multiple screens.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.