What a pleasant surprise. Flickr had a horrible outdated map service and they have now gone over to using Nokia Maps instead. And not only that, they also went over to use the satellite images from Nokia. So if you’re geotagging your photos or simply want to see where other people’s amazing photos were taken – you’ll see up-to-date maps from one of the largest mapping providers in the world. Not only are the maps updated, but the Nokia Maps also provide you a much greater level of […] Continue reading →
Gizmodo has a great article explaining how Yahoo ended up killing Flickr, how Flickr’s developers met with Yahoo’s corporate development team and were forced to defend all of the decisions they had made governing Flickr’s development. In many ways this article sums up how I ended up using 500px as my main social network for photos. Today I mostly use Flickr as an archive—as the place where I store all my photos as a backup and to link them up to blog articles that I […] Continue reading →
I normally have inbetween 100 and 200 views of my pictures a day. Best day before yesterday, was a day with 700 views. Yesterday I had stunning 5,823 picture views. I had to check if there was an article on my blog that suddently had gotten equal lots of hits, but no. Flickr’s own statistics also show that no particular photo had gotten more then 3 views. So what happened? […] Continue reading →
Development of Flickr seems to have more or less stalled. Another problem with Flickr these days is that it takes hours to find good pictures. Flickr is becoming more like Facebook. Lately I’ve seen lots of photographer migrating to Google+ with Picasa. What’s cool with Google+ is that there are lists of Google+ registered photographers. And there’s lots of them and it’s easy to subscribe to their feeds and pictures are presented in a nice way. Google+ has so far not […] Continue reading →
I have just seen Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, demoing augmented-reality functionality in Microsoft Live Maps. I have been using Microsoft’s map service more and more lately, as it works brilliantly here in Oslo. There are some important things that I miss, like being able to embed maps in to blog posts. I partically liked that Microsoft has been working together with the Flickr developers on some […] Continue reading →
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