OReilly Network -- Stewart Butterfield on by Richard Koman 02/04/2005 We collect images with cameraphones and so forth, but we have no good mechanism for advancing them out into the world. Here's a mechanism for batching them into a locked-and-loaded tool for firing them into the world. -- Ben Cerveny, Ludicorp's Itinerant Philosopher At the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference in 2004, a startup called Flickr introduced a funny little social networking app that let you upload digital photos into chatroom and IM conversations. While the original launch met with rave reviews from attendees, the Flickr team kept adding features and evolving the service. By July 2004, they had achieved a critical mass of features, and Flickr was becoming the hottest thing on the net. As of this writing, Flickr boasts 270,000 users, four million photos, 30 percent monthly growth in users, and 50 percent monthly growth in photos. Several of these factors come together in a simple post by Cory Doctorow on the Boing Boing site.
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies Phil Robertson to Return to Duck Dynasty | After a huge outpouring of support on Facebook, A&E broke under the pressure and reinstated Phil Robertson back on their hit show, Duck Dynasty. Millions of people showed their support for Phil, with all the stories being liked and shared. It’s unclear what the liberals will do in the face of this, but I’m sure we’ll have to listen to the media complain about A&E’s decision. If you support Phil returning back to TV, leave your comment below!
Caterina.net Marriott - Marriott on the Move - Bill Marriott's Blog The 27 Incredible Once In A Lifetime Shots | Marine Chic Posted by admin on Apr 3, 2013 in Gallery | 47 comments Today we collect photos that we can see only one in lifetime and that if we had a luck to see it. These are the photos which we must save and enjoy in them all the time, because they are moment of an amazing history. List of the 30 incredible once in a lifetime shots is something that we will love and enjoy every day.
Collaborative knowledge gardening | InfoWorld | Test Center | Au Next month I’ll be giving a talk on social software to an audience of CTOs. To prime the pump, I’ve been spending some time with two of the newer services in the space: Flickr and del.icio.us. Neither focuses primarily on the six-degrees-of-separation dynamic that drives LinkedIn, Orkut, Friendster, and Spoke. To CTOs, though, I’d say that both are collaborative systems for building a shared database of items, developing a metadata vocabulary about the items, performing metadata-driven queries, and monitoring change in areas of interest. Conventional wisdom holds that people will never assign metadata tags to content. Abandoning taxonomy is the first ingredient of success. Feedback is immediate. These systems offer lots of ways to visualize and refine the tag space.
The Editors Anka Zhuravleva Moscow raised and StPete based awesome artist and photographer Anka Zhuravleva invites you to be mesmerized by her latest photo-artwork series “Distorted Gravity”. Anka-Zhuravleva.com Flickr Leech Disney Parks Blog - The official blog for Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line Anyone want $1 million? Well, Walt Disney Studios is prepared to give that much money away as part of the world premiere of its new movie “Million Dollar Arm,” in which a sports agent (played by Jon Hamm) concocts a scheme to find a young cricket pitcher he can turn into a Major League Baseball star. Walt Disney Studios is staging a contest on April 25th and 26th to find a real-life “million dollar arm” by offering guests (you have to be age 18 and over with no prior professional baseball experience) the chance to throw the fastest strike. Here’s how it works: Participants at three locations; Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort and New York City, get three chances to throw a baseball as fast as possible. Participants who throw the three fastest strikes at each location will be flown to the finals in Hollywood, Calif., where they will attend the world premiere of Disney’s “Million Dollar Arm” on May 6 and get a chance to compete for the grand prize. Click here for official rules.