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Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:48:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Paul Baulch wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer wrote:
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Everyone else, get on Flickr.
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No, Flickr is a load of garbage. It’s way, way slower to load than just
about any other image-hosting site I’ve ever used, it has crap size
restrictions on the actual image presentations for no reason other than it
wants to maintain a “site look”, which, frankly, is totally unnecessary for
an image-hosting site, and it tempts users to add pointless fluff that tends
to hinder rather than help examination of images.
People should try Maj, or Yesalbum, or Photobucket, or google for “image
hosting” if they don’t like those, but for the love of all that is sane in
this world DON’T use Flickr.
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I’d have to take great exception to this point. I love Flickr. It’s an
absolutely fantastic.
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Sorry to follow-up to my own post (I wish I could simply edit the existing post
instead). Forgot to mention that Flickr also has an incredible robust API that
allows other sites to tap into the functionality of Flickr with relative ease.
Three of my favorite uses of the API:
- Picnik (www.picnik.com) - incredibly robust image editing and manipulation capabilities. Freemium account scheme (although everything is free during their initial launch), all web-based, and absolutely incredible.
- Moo Cards (www.moo.com) - For $20, you can create a box of “Moo Cards”, small business cards with your text info on one side and photos of your selection from your Flickr account on the other. It’s fast and very very easy.
- Post/Blog via email - I can take a photo on my cell phone and using the standard Flickr functionality, send it to a special Flickr email address. One address posts the photo straight to the site, one address posts for “friends and family” access only, one sends the photo straight to my blog.
There are many, many more cool Flickr functions out there, but these are three
that I use regularly that many people don’t know about.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Private Citizen
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| (...) I'd have to take great exception to this point. I love Flickr. It's an absolutely fantastic. There have been slower periods, certainly, but honestly I've only noticed them pre-Yahoo! acquisition when they were growing in leaps and bounds and (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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