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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.

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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.

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June 25, 2010

Recursive Panda is Recursive

Recursive Panda is Recursive

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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November 30, 2009

Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch

This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!

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September 14, 2009

May 9, 2009

Mum & Dad at Flickr Turns 5.25

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

Yahoo! - An error has occurred

Yahoo! - An error has occurred

Getting this error when I try to renew my Flickr Pro subscription. I hit "OK! I'M READY TO PAY", enter my Yahoo password, and get this error.

Any Flickr employees reading this are encouraged to help me give you more money!

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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)

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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.

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November 7, 2008

Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site

Some great thoughts on mobile website development from Flickr, whose iPhone-friendly site is a thing of beauty.

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September 12, 2008

Hack Day Display

Hack Day Display

Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.

August 13, 2008

Symmetry Explorer

Symmetrize Flickr photos based on tag. Ones that turned out interesting to me were “bassethound”, “kiss”, “hippo” and, disturbingly, “boobs”.

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June 30, 2008

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development

Flickr’s codebase-over-time visualized.

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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!”

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May 5, 2008

LOLCODE It's Everywhere

Flickr’s API includes LOLCODE as a return format. Duly noted for any APIs I might create in the future…

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April 15, 2008

A Random interesting video from Flickr

Hack by Kellan to find the interesting moving pictures on Flickr. Some wicked cool stuff is being uploaded.

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March 11, 2008

compfight

Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view.

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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.

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December 5, 2007

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Flickr’s new Picnik integration is top-notch — Enough photo-tweaking power for about 80% of the population, I’d guess. And, effectively, a new implementation of “hohohohat”!

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October 24, 2007

Flickr: Photos from etchasketchist

Etch-a-Sketch art on Flickr. Some stunningly detailed stuff in here!

October 23, 2007

10 Really Useful Flickr Greasemonkey Userscripts

Some of these look wicked handy.

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October 4, 2007

Even after all this time on the internet, seatbelt fetishes are a new one by me.

This is a weird one — someone is scouring Flickr for photos of women in the back-seats of cars wearing their seatbelt.

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September 19, 2007

Flickr: Ye photers!

Lovely Flickarrrrr Eastarrrrr Egg for “Talk Like a Pirate Day”

August 22, 2007

DeskLickr - Flickrize your Mac desktop!

Automatically swap your desktop background for snaps from Flickr. I’ve had some gorgeous stuff come up in the couple of hours I’ve been running it.

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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.

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April 23, 2007

Flickr: 24 hours of Flickr

Day-long photo project on May 5th to create a book and “sponsored event”.

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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.

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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

Picnik

Wicked nifty-cool Flash-based photo editor for Flickr. Sign up on the webpage, and you should get access within minutes. Tip: Clicking on the Picnik logo in the top-left puts you into full-screen mode.

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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.

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November 8, 2006

Flickr: The Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) Pool

Just the thing to spruce up your desktop.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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July 18, 2006

flickrInspector

Amassed stats and assorted other geekery based upon your Flickr usage.

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June 2, 2006

Photographing Squirrels - a photoset on Flickr

Squirrels + Antique Cameras = CUTE!

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June 1, 2006

No Shouting on Flickr at Binary Bonsai

Cunning social tweak on Flickr comments — ANY ALL CAPS SENTENCES GET CONVERTED TO LOWERCASE.

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May 16, 2006

Flickr: Advanced Photo Search

Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!

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April 29, 2006

blakeseely.com » Mugshot

Excellent wee Flickr organizr for OSX. Easily sift through your photos, sets, contacts and groups. The author is now working on Aperture for Apple.

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April 27, 2006

Flickr: Photos tagged with valleyschwag

Looks like different folk got different schwag.

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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!

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March 3, 2006

Joyeur: Public Betas Are a Sham

Spot-on Gruberrant.

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February 28, 2006

ZoneTag Photos

It’s stuff like this that made me want to purchase a Series 60 cellphone again. Two-click Flickr photo uploading, along with geo-tagging.

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January 23, 2006

Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

Fear and Loathing on the streets of London.

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January 13, 2006

ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

One of those LCD photoframe dealios, but this one can subscribe to Flickr RSS feed downloaded over Wi-Fi.

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January 10, 2006

Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse

You’ll never forget your first goatse. (Mine was back in 1998, when it was referred to on uk.misc as simply “*that* jpeg”)

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January 8, 2006

flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys

Some fun little games and tools for Flickr users. This is a great example of what your customers can build if you provide a smart, powerful API.

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January 3, 2006

retrievr - search by sketch

Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it.

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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.

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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.