Category Archives: Flickr

Where to find me when I’m not blogging…

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Every once and a while you’ll notice that i’ve gone a day or two without blogging.  This doesn’t mean that i’ve gone completely off the grid.  It just means that I’ve probably gotten really busy between my work and after work lifes.

Chances are that during a lull you can probably find some type of my activity on a number of different Web 2.0 applications…

If you wanna keep up on my various comings and goings when I’m not blogging, by all means please add me as a contact or friend on one of these services.

If it’s possible to put in a message with your “friend request”, just say that you read my blog.

Flickr Places – Travel the World in an Evening

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Flickr Places Screenshot

The crew over at Flickr have just released a new product, Flickr Places. It aggregates together photos, photographers, and groups around certain geographic areas.

You can type in “Florence, Italy” and seconds later you’ll be flipping through the most interesting or most recent photos for that area. I have to say this is way cool! I’ve already spent two hours tonight just flipping through photos in various parts of the world.

My journeys have taken me to:

I have seen some really amazing photographs. Plus I think I have my next 30 years of vacations planned out. :-p

This reminds me a lot of when I was growing up and my dad and I would surf on telnet. It was a game to see how many different Web sites in different countries we could see in an evening. The Web gave me the ability to see a world beyond my own.

I can totally see Flickr Places being used by people all over the world to get excited about areas or places that they’ve never been before and maybe even make connections with people they’ve never met before.

Also… I could totally see someone seeing a place on the news like Baghdad and wanting to see more photos from that location.

Oh oh oh… there’s one things I forgot to mention. Flickr also has this new map view which displays the keywords of what people are taking pictures of in that region.

Congrats to Flickr on 2 Billion Photographs

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It was just recently announced on their blog that Flickr has passed their 2 billionth photograph.  I want to personally congratulate the Flickr crew on this impressive milestone.

Flickr has helped me in so many ways.  I now feel like I can stay better connected through the photos of my family and friends.  I also feel empowered to instantly touch the other side of the world through someone’s photos.  It’s awesome!

*raises a glass to the Flickr crew*

What’s the coolest photograph that you’ve seen lately on Flickr?

YouTube Launches 9 Localized Versions of their Site

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It is truly a WORLD WIDE Web. You will get users from across the globe.

Flickr isn’t the only one realizing how much more effectively they can serve their global audience with localized versions of the site for specific areas of the world.
YouTube has just launched country specific sites for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.

I’d love to see how these localized sites have improved the traffic that both Flickr and YouTube are getting.

Is Flickr Just the Start of More Translated and Localized Web 2.0 Apps?

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Flickr UI Translated
My Flickr account translated into Chinese (I think?)

If you haven’t already heard, this week Flickr released seven localized versions of their user interface. It is now available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Portuguese. This is exciting news.

While Flickr may have some more issues to work out, I have a feeling this will play a huge role in Flickr more effectively attracting a much bigger global audience.

Yahoo! VP (and man who the Flickr team reports to) Bradley Horowitz, referring to the recent announcement, recently wrote in his blog, “Flickr is stupid, and late… but redeems itself.” I think we all can learn a lesson from this.

Isn’t it time that all of the popular Web 2.0 applications start moving in the direction of translating and localizing their interfaces? We should be building our applications from the beginning with the understanding that we at some point will be localizing the UI.

It is a WORLD WIDE Web. It won’t take a long for a Web app to get a world-wide audience.

When will Digg or Facebook follow Flickr’s lead? Back in November 2006, there was a post on the Digg blog about how they were internationalizing their databases by moving to UTF8. There has been no sign of Digg taking any big next steps.