Monday, March 13, 2006

Flickr Communities

Bliu Flickr


A picture of someone using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flick to see a ...... ad infinitum.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/infinite/


Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures.
http://www.mappr.com/about/


A photo on Flickr of a bit of chalked graffiti in an alley of Newcastle made a group of mad Newcastle residents create flickr-esque nonsense suggesting other Fickrites should add their own contributions…
http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/07/flickrwall-flickr-project-in-newcastle/


The Scholar's Box is a tool that gives users gather/create/share functionality, enabling them to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research.
http://www.sitegeist.com/horizon/


retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/about


The group is for discussing tips and methods of adding "geotags" aka location metadata to flickr images, Discussing locations on the geobloggers map worth checking out, Discussing the Geobloggers.com website and features etc.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/


A neat idea, started by Flickr frequentr Michel Benard: 2005 September 29 - a day on Earth.

The idea behind this photo group is to encourage as many people as possible from around the world to post one photo from one day. A collective snapshot of the planet Earth.
http://forestfortrees.edublogs.org/2005/09/29/an-emerging-flickr-community-of-practice/


The goal of this group is to post a clock face for every minute around the clock, in chronological order. When run in slideshow mode at 1 second intervals, this should give us a working 12 minute clock!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/clockworks/


Top 10 Ways to Improve Flickr, Almost Certainly the Best Online Photo Management and Sharing Application in the World
http://flickrnation.com/2005/11/top-10-ways-to-improve-flickr-almost.html


Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue. Then you can watch the pictures until the next set begins. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every six minutes.
http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/about/


The photos are picked entirely at random - if it's visible to the public, it's game!
http://www.krazydad.com/gustavog/FlickRandom.html


The idea is to "curate" someone's photostream on Flickr with the goal of articulating their style or a common theme or thread of artistic vision with a smaller collection of photos you choose as if you were curating an exhibit of their work in a gallery or museum.
http://ravengrrl.blogspot.com/2006/01/most-exciting-flickr-project.html


About Katrina Relief Auction - Total Donations To Date: $19,553.01

flickr members donated prints to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. To offer aid and assistance to the victims of Huricane Katrina, all donations were made directly to the following charitable organizations...

• Habitat for Humanity
• The United Way
• The Americares Foundation, and
• The Humane Society of the United States

http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/


Flickr should publish The Flickr Book. Similar in style to Phaidon's The Photo Book it would also highlight 500 photographs from 500 photographers on Flickr. The kicker is that all of these photographs would come from Flickr's Explore selection and would be selected by a panel of editors at Flickr (Stewart, Caterina, Heather, whoever else, etc.). The quality of the book would be high and the price modest -- also like The Photo Book. A "The Photo Book" Flickr mashup -- very cool.
http://flickrnation.com/2006/01/introducing-flickr-book.html