First off, our photo of the week is one that I wanted to choose as soon as he contributed it to the group. I’m grateful that Paul V Specht took the time to contribute the photo, plus he called in to our comment line to to give us a brief story about the photo. Thanks, Paul. Those of us who are interested in medium format photography appreciate the tips.
We also talked about a couple of different Flickr mash-ups. There’s the fun time waster Fastr that you can play against other people; images pop up on the screen and you try to guess the common tag among all the photos. The other mash-up we talked about was Tagnautica. This one we didn’t like as much because there seemed to be something missing, despite the neat Flash interface.
In the news we talked about the Flickr Forum in Toronto, the new television show in the UK called Picture This, and two improvements to Flickr: an upgrade to version 3.0 for Uploadr and a new stats feature.
And Sandra told us about three really nice people she’s met through Flickr: Matt, who bought some used shoes he saw in one of Sandra’s photos (funny story), a woman from Thailand who gave her photography tips, and Susan, who has been a good friend around the holidays.
We’re not taking a break for the holidays, so stay tuned. We’ll be back with another podcast on New Year’s eve.
Great Job Bill and Sandra….another successful podcast week!!
Happy Holidays
Amy
great show
- thank you sandra,
susan
Thanks, Susan and Amy. We’re really starting to get our feet under us and have already starting thinking about improvements we’d like to realize in the new year.
Thank you for your support!
Hey,
I’ve just found the show and have listened to them all today.
I was checking out the mash ups from show #3. Tagnautica does look very clean, but Bill mentioned that he couldn’t see the pictures of the “new” tags. I found that if you clicked a tag it would appear in the middle, if you click it while in the middle, then a pop-up (new tab in firefox) would show you the pictures with that tag.
For example, I started with Kitchener (my hometown) and then a click on the new tag “bridge”, once bridge was in the middle I clicked on it and found that this page popped up - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bridge
thanks for the show, keep producing and i’ll keep listening….
glenn
Glenn,
Thanks, I tried Tagnautica again with different results. Sometimes it would narrow down my search, other times it broadened it. Guess I would have to have a need for this mashup to really figure it out. ;)
Thanks for listening and commenting!
Sandra