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FlickrFan, day 2
There were other articles and reviews, you can find them on TechMeme or Technorati. One thing I've learned is that takes a bit of time to find the right mix of personal pics from Flickr and news pics from AP. It's an unusual app because whole families can use it, and they have different preferences and expectations. The tech blogosphere tends to rush to decide about things. I find they sometimes miss the mark, widely and I was sure this would be one of those times, which is why I didn't roll it out the usual way.
I wanted to get a base of users going, and learn and evolve the software, so far it looks pretty good, so the next step is to evaluate, listen, fix the most serious bugs I can find, think, and then move forward.
End of year links
NY Times list of buzzwords of 2007.
Washington Post : “The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed.”
Recommendation for Flickr
I've been emailing today with photographers who use Flickr to manage their sets and collections. They like it that people can view their pictures publicly, but they want to control how they're used. RSS, used as a way to distribute pictures, is a new idea for many of them.
Based on these conversations I think it's important that they have a way to:
1. Turn off the RSS feed for their pictures.
2. To have their pictures not included in RSS feeds based on tags and searches.
3. To include their pictures in RSS feeds, but only links to them, and the titles and descriptions, but not as enclosures.
Of course this recommendation isn't just for Flickr, it's a good idea for any photo-sharing site.
Thanks Lifehacker
A simple no-nonsense writeup of FlickrFan. Thank you.
However, the product does much more than what they say.
We'll continue explaining and enhancing the product here.
Another song
I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho. 
It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago.
Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me.
There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC.
I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking “Dave has good taste in music.”
Interview from Wired
Wired News : “The first time I ran it, I let FlickrFan pull just AP photos, then I sat back and watched. I run two monitors here at my desk at Wired, so I can see two photos from the news agency side by side. This makes for some fantastic juxtapositions — like a picture of Bhutto smiling on one screen and her coffin being hoisted by mourners on the other, or of Iraqi children playing soccer on one side and a center ice scrum from an NHL hockey game on the other.”
It's a fun game to play in the living room with just one monitor, but with two (Macs work very cleanly with multiple montors) you get some special kind of magic.
People who focus on the software miss the point. It's about the photography. The software just facilitates.
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