Wow. This is absolutely fantastic. I can only hope that one day I’ll be in a position to resign from a company, knowing full well my resignation will be leaked onto the interwebs, and I have enough wits about me to compose a letter even half as amusing as this one. If that day ever comes, I’ll know I’ve made it. Kudos, Stewart Butterfield. Visit site »
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the husband/wife team who founded Flickr in back 2004 and then sold the site to Yahoo in 2005, are leaving Y!. Can’t blame them, what with the uncertainty around the company right now. Sounds like Flickr is still very well staffed with good people, so there’s probably no reason to worry about the site’s future. Good luck to Caterina and Stewart in their future endeavors! Visit site »
Flickr’s George Oates has a great piece on A List Apart about building community around your site — something that Flickr has done as well as anyone. Visit site »
Flickr launches code.flickr.com, a site dedicated to their open source projects, their API, and everything development as it related to Flickr. Nice. Visit site »
So basically, 23,000+ jackasses are protesting non-photographic content on Flickr by — for the most part — uploading non-photographic content. Fuck, people can be stupid. Visit site »
Haha. Cute video by Heather and the folks at Flickr, soft-announcing the addition of video. I’ve been waiting for this! Flip video, here I come! Visit site »
Great sounding gig at an awesome Seattle company. Visit site »
March 12th, 2006, 5 PM in Austin, TX
March 8th, 2008, 4 PM in Austin, TX
March 12th, 2007, 6:30 PM in Austin, TX
It seems as though Yahoo! and Flickr are set to start providing OpenID services. This is huge. Visit site »
Sweet! Compare, for fun:
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It shouldn’t be a surprise that I really like this idea! Visit site »
Couldn’t agree more with 37signals on this one: the Yahoo! Photos shutdown has been extremely well-handled. Well done, Yahoo! Visit site »
My cousin, Brian Ford, tells the Faceball story just as you would hear it on your local news. “It started out as a harmless game — played by young entrepreneurs with too much time on their hands between energy drinks and $10 macchiatos. Find out how “faceball” has become the next dangerous fad — and whether your teen is involved — on your nightly news at 10.
“Scotty used to do the dishes every night. These days, he heads up to his room, shuts the door, and pretends to be like his hero, Dunstan Orchard. His work ethic is completely shot.”
Awesome. Visit site »
I’m a bit surprised at this, but I absolutely think it’s the right decision. Visit site »
Jeremy picks up on Richard’s machine tag ideas (which I linked yesterday) and implements them on his blog. I should do this too — it would fit nicely with the other Flickr API stuff I’ve been doing. Visit site »
I think Flickr’s machine tags are a great idea, and Richard’s got some nice ideas on how to use them. I’d love to see the same basic machine tag format used on other web services, so as to become some kind of a standard. Good stuff. Visit site »
Wow, this is one of the most impressive web apps I’ve ever seen. It lets you do iPhoto-like editing of your photos in the browser (works with Flickr and other photo sharing sites, as well as with images from your computer). Fix exposure, red eye, and so forth quickly and easily. If you’re not yet convinced that there is a place for “heavy” browser-based apps, think again. Visit site »