Google have just updated their Street View to include Flickr Photos … … you can see this in action here. Flickr joins Panaramio and Picasa as a source of photos. Flickr has always had plenty of good quality geotagged photos, so this looks like a handy addition to the whole Street View thing. No word [...]
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From Working at Flickr to the new job at The Guardian … a not unsurprising transition. I count myself as very lucky, to have been able to work on Flickr, something that has effected so many peoples lives, bend its code in unexpected and unusual ways and mainly work with <3 amazing people … and [...]
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I can now officially say that after nearly 4 years I’m no longer working at Flickr, today was my last day, and I think it’s fair to say I’ll miss it terribly. There’s no other job quite like it. I’ll miss the people, I’ll miss the coding and I’ll miss the blogging. And besides, where [...]
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Single Sentence Synopsis: Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them. This post is the second part in a trilogy, but also the part that’s been bouncing around in my mind the most. So in Star Wars saga style, I’m writing the middle part first. I’ll get [...]
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Over at Flickr we’ve just turned on shapedata for various locations around the world. Aaron posts way way more over on Flickr’s Code Blog: The Shape Of The Alpha. Now when you call flickr.places.getInfo if we have shapedata for that place, it’ll get sent back to you in the response. See Aaron’s post and the [...]
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The lovely as ever We Make Money Not Art drew my eye to this piece by David Adjaye at Manifesta 7… … the premise being “If Europe were condensed into one piece and combined as one cell, what would be left behind as residue? Two extremes: a very dense condition and a big void.” using [...]
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