I wish @flickr set pages featured larger photos. So much untapped potential to wow. — Rion Nakaya (@riondotnu) May 1, 2013 Rion totally nails something that has been sticking in my craw for the last six months or so. Ever since the rollouts of features that vastly improved the Flickr experience, the …
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marble steps are pretty slippery
via http://www.flickr.com I didn't post this for the laughs, it's just kind of an amazing moment captured by Tracey on Flickr.
I hope this is on a plaque somewhere at Flickr HQ
I have to remind myself of this truism every so often so I might as well write it down for the ages: When you have an old photo in your photostream with partial nudity in it, and it gets a new favorite from a random no-user-pic user, for god sakes, don't look at their other …
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Bigger Better Flickr
For over six years, you’ve made Flickr the place to be for photos. Billions of photos of the places you’ve been, the things you’ve seen, and the people in your lives. It’s an amazing photographic record that continues to amaze us. So as part of our Ongoing Quest to Make Flickr More WonderfulTM, we’d like …
Cutting Libraries
CuttingLibraries, originally uploaded by Daniel Solis.
Just put it on repeat
I’ve watched this six times and for some strange reason I could watch it many times more.
How to enjoy bigger photos on Flickr
As a longtime flickr user and photographer with ever increasing megapixels at bay, I’ve slowly become dissatisfied with the small 500px wide default photo layouts at Flickr. I edit my photos full screen on a huge monitor and I’m often cropping and adjusting based on that view, so when I upload to Flickr I realize …
Holy shitballs
Back in college, my favorite undergraduate class of my major was Limnology, or the study of lakes and rivers. I loved it so much that I went to grad school and eventually helped teach it as a TA while doing soil and water chemistry of a lake ecosystem. In the world of limnology, there are …
Flickr’s skinner box
Flickr's most addictive page in their giant game that is photo sharing is easily the Recent Activity page. It used to be a slight drag to have to check comments you left on other photos as well as your own, and soon after they redesigned their iPhone version of flickr, I realized the combined activity …
iStockphoto ends up on a license plate!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #666; } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px;color:#999; } My new license plate, originally uploaded by mathowie. I love my new Share the Road license plate that is now offered here in Oregon. It's only $10 as a one-time fee and half goes …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 