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Multicolr Search Lab >> TinEye Labs

guardiantech — 2013-10-15T15:15:20+00:00

We extracted the colors from 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr. Search this collection by color. Addictive and very likely the best color search engine in the world*

Totally brilliant. Need a picture to match a colour palette? This will find one you can use.

London Metropolitan Police: recovered bicycles: is one yours? >> a set on Flickr

guardiantech — 2013-09-22T21:31:28+00:00

London's Metropolitan Police:

Have you had your bicycle stolen?
The Metropolitan Police Service would like to reunite owners with their bicycles and these photos are a selection of the most identifiable cycles that we have recovered.
If you believe one of these bicycles could be yours please contact the officer detailed in the photo.

Some of them are just frames. Even so, great idea. (Only 17 so far..) Are other cities trying the same thing?

Flickr, Vimeo integration likely to bolster social ties in iOS 7 >> 9to5Mac

guardiantech — 2013-05-22T20:10:34+00:00

Both Flickr and Vimeo will now also be integrated deeply into the new operating system, so users will be able to sign into the respective networks via iOS 7′s built-in Settings application. Like with iOS’s Facebook and Twitter ties, Apple customers will be able to log-in one time into each social network and have full sharing access.

Add salt as required. But if it's correct, note this point: it looks as though iOS 7 won't introduce Android-like "intents" to connect between apps.

(815) Flickr: Why did Flickr drop the "e"? >> Quora

guardiantech — 2013-01-09T22:45:04+00:00

Stewart Butterfield, co-founder:

Because the guy who owned the domain http://flicker.com wouldn't sell it and we loved the name. Dropping the "e" was Caterina Fake's idea — I was against it at first because it looked so wrong, but I eventually came to see the wisdom: it was easy for us to get the domain, but it was also more distinctive & recognizable, easier to search for, etc.

Yahoo won the rights (?) to flicker.com in June 2010, as the next answer below Butterfield's explain. Quora, meanwhile, remains an excellent place to find top-level people answering real questions.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet >> Gizmodo

guardiantech — 2012-05-18T13:36:02+00:00

The ever-readable Mat Honan on how Yahoo didn't get Flickr right, even though it was poised to do so in 2005 with social sharing. Why? Corporate Development. (Thanks @TehGreatGonzo for the link.)

Most popular cameras used on Flickr >> Flickr

guardiantech — 2011-10-03T20:51:52+00:00

What's remarkable is how two companies dominate these statistics so thoroughly.

Is there a major security hole in Flickr’s new “geo-fences” feature? >> Thomas Hawk

guardiantech — 2011-08-31T22:04:55+00:00

Photographer Thomas Hawk: "Flickr asked me if I wanted to apply it only to photos going forward, or also to images that I’d already geotagged. I told flickr to go ahead and apply this setting to all of my past and future photos — which included a thumbnail of the photo I linked. So now when you go to this photo on flickr, indeed, the geotag seems to be removed from the photo page for the image.
"Except that there is one pretty major security hole.
"Although the geotag information is indeed pulled from the flickr photo page, ANYONE can potentially still get your geolocational data simply by downloading the original sized file and looking into the EXIF data.
"This only seems to apply to images that were geotaged at the file level (i.e. by you or your device/phone, etc.) and not photos geotagged using flickr — but still, with cell phones and software that auto geotag things, you could easily be lulled into a false sense of security on Flickr when you should not be."