Wed, July 14th, 2004 by gwen
When I signed up a couple months ago, I got the impression Flickr was just another F2F site (like Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, etc.) and lost interest because it seemed redundant for me.
I went back to visit this weekend because I've been checking out Heather's stream on her other page and have been having trouble tearing myself away -- I don't know if they repurposed or what, but it's all about photos now. You can post your own (through the site, by e-mail, or through a desktop app), but my favorite features are the friends and community-at-large photo pages, which show thumbnails of the latest additions.
You can also view photos by tag (keyword), if you're specifically intersted in, say, graffiti or dogs, and the site blog highlights members and themes. And there's commenting and messaging.
A couple questions if you're signed up:
1. What's your membername? (I wanna check you out.)
2. How are you using it for your own photos? (primary photoblog, camblog, snapshots that don't fit in at your blog for whatever reason, specific theme gallery, etc.)
3. Are you using the stream for your site?
July 15th, 2004 at 3:17 am
flickr? I *heart* flickr!
My username is mylakent
My photos are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylakent/
and while I haven't really figured out how I'm going to "use" flickr per se, I've been having fun seeing my photos in a different light, making new contacts (and inviting friends to join me) and getting feedback on shots. . .
and using their awesome features.
The notes feature is really something, where you can zoom onto a photograph and 'note' the image with your comments. This photo of Derek Powazek's "Action Bug" is a classic example:
http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=66376
and the daily zeitgeist
(see it on my site here: http://parrotsmeow.com/plog/archives/000059.html) which is this nifty javascript that takes your images and presents them in a fade-in-zoom-out thing that is really fantastic.
To answer your question, yes, at some point I definitely plan to add the stream.
They say the best things in life are free. . .flickr is one of those "things" for photographers, most definitely. =)
(and no, no one paid me to say all that)
July 15th, 2004 at 3:21 am
The ) sort of stuck to the last comment, sorry. That should have been:
http://parrotsmeow.com/plog/archives/000059.html
July 16th, 2004 at 8:13 am
I just wanted to show my work to people other than my friends (lol) I would like honest feedback-and please tell your friends about my page. All comments are welcome. I use film cameras exclusively
January 17th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
flickr.com/photos/jeeves
been doing the whole flickr thing for a while now and definitely lovin' it .. definitely one of the best photo related thing on the web .. i try to update my stuff but i rarely get the time , still sorting through my stuff from over the winter but yea ..