Flickr, and Goings On

» 14 Jun 2005, 3:08pm in technology, photography, entertainment - 3 comments

On invitation from Matthew, I broke down and created a Flickr account to host some of my photos. It will simply be a mirror of the Favourites gallery, with the intention of getting other Flickr users to view some of my images and then drop by my website to the see the full collection.

I must admit, the Flickr user interface is really well put together, and their use of Flash and Ajax to create an intuitive interface (rather than plain old form submissions and page loads) is extremely effective. This has got to be where UIs are moving for the rest of the web services industry, and has made me a believer that this is what I need to do for my own web applications.

One thing Flickr could use, IMO, is greater integration with their users' websites. In particular, one feature that I'd like to see is RSS/XML feeds of comments for the images. I would like to pull these and include the comments with the comments on my own site. Which makes me think that maybe they should also have XML feeds of entire galleries and I could then just use Flickr to organize my photos, and display them on my site however I like. Perhaps they do this already in some form... will have to look into it. Does anyone know?

Few new albums in the music section, including "Silent Alarm" by Bloc Party, "Guero" by Beck, and "Pretty In Black" by The Raveonettes.

Lastly... my Hillside Festival tickets came in the mail! I'm pretty excited to check out Buck 65, Stars, The Weakerthans, and of course, The Arcade Fire. Anyone else going?

3 comments:

  • kristen: I am so jealous that you are going to Hillside....I have wanted to go for three years now. I would be there if I wasn't going to Chicago that weekend. Dave and Heather will be there for sure though...they haven't missed a year.
  • angela: i am so excited for hillside! i'll take any opportunity to share the hillside love! also, i listened to bloc party and they're GREAT. there are a couple decent alterna-queer bands playing for free at pride, remind me to tell you in case you want to check them out. i think they're all on sunday after the horrid parade is over.
  • Dave: Hey, see you at Hillside then! A friend invited us to a wedding on the Friday night - some friend, eh? ;-) But will be there Saturday and Sunday for sure. I'm actually supposed to be doing a workshop on the Saturday - "make your own weather forecast".

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