22 days ago
deusx : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Laying off George - "George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is the last person a sane company would lay off. I don’t know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates."
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22 days ago
Andy Baio : Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo! - she was in Taipei when she got the call; her last Flickr blog post about The Commons was just posted yesterday [via]
deusx : kewlchops: Not quite what I had in mind. - ""I'll just get straight to the point. You've been affected by the layoffs." ... I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, ju
Rod Begbie : Not quite what I had in mind. - George Oates's tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr's behalf. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles - read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
philgyford : Boundaries - Completely awesome thing from Tom Taylor. Shows the shapes of areas based on how people have tagged their geo-located Flickr photos.
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Cameron Moll : Flickr: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Flickr Developer Blog: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site. Worth reading, as I've said before that the Flickr Mobile is one of the more impressive web experiences I've seen on iPhone.
philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog " Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Great practical advice for building a website for iPhones. (via Infovore)
Rod Begbie : Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - Some great thoughts on mobile website development from Flickr, whose iPhone-friendly site is a thing of beauty. #
Eric Meyer : Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site - These lessons don't apply solely to mobile sites, as it happens.
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3 month ago
dbow : Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com - Cool coverage of Flickr, prominently featuring Heather and the decisions the team makes around community.
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3 month ago
deusx : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - "It seems that using queuing systems in web apps is the new hottness . While the basic idea itself certainly isn’t new, its application to modern, large, scalable sites seems to be. At the very least, it’s something that deserves talking about
Simon Willison : Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - Flickr Engineers Do It Offline. Flickr wrote their own queuing mechanism (in PHP), and currently run ten queue servers on dedicated hardware for tasks like pushing new photos in to indexes, denormalisation and “backfills” which move data between clu
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4 month ago
deusx : Flickr: MFBT - "if you're driven to drink before 4pm on a weekday, we refer to that as "calling MFBT"."
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5 month ago
cameron : Symmetry Explorer - Takes photos from Flickr and symmetrizes them.
Rod Begbie : Symmetry Explorer - Symmetrize Flickr photos based on tag. Ones that turned out interesting to me were "bassethound", "kiss", "hippo" and, disturbingly, "boobs". [via] #
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5 month ago
mmb : Assumption Cemetary by Eye8Pudding @ Flickr - by Eye8Pudding
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mmb : Baby Sloth by essexjan @ Flickr - by essexjan via B3TA : NEWSLETTER : “…CHIPS IT IS THEN, SAY PORTUGUESE POLICE” [via]
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6 month ago
mmb : Mini vMac DS by Synaesthesia @ Flickr - by Synaesthesia via deusx’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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mmb : Photo_07.jpg by Tybstar @ Flickr - by Tybstar via Planet Emacsen [via]
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mmb : the empty fair by a Dan of action @ Flickr - by a Dan of action
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6 month ago
gleuschk : Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin (FFXporter) - did I already delicious this?
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr with code_swarm - see also: Federated Media and Django [via]
Rod Begbie : Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development - Flickr's codebase-over-time visualized. #
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7 month ago
mmb : eddie murphy’s giant head on the interstate by ahhhitshayley @ Flickr - by ahhhitshayley via Here is today’s dose of surreality. (kottke.org) [via]
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7 month ago
mmb : rainbow over syracuse by chromatophobe @ Flickr - by chromatophobe
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7 month ago
mmb : Hope for Melmac by roberlan @ Flickr - by roberlan via Claw Marks in the Frozen Peas [via]
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7 month ago
mmb : Symbolics Keyboard by Twylo @ Flickr - by Twylo via Planet Emacsen [via]
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7 month ago
mmb : Stickers: okay I think I have enough now by Mat Honan @ Flickr - by Mat Honan
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7 month ago
gleuschk : Exits: Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo - I have such a crush on Stewart
Andy Baio : Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter - best resignation ever
Rod Begbie : Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter - That's the way to do it. "Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!" [via] #
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jonhicks : Flickr: little girl ghosts - Creepy, but amazing and atmospheric artwork
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mmb : RoboGames 2008 by Laughing Squid @ Flickr - by Laughing Squid via MAKE: Blog: MAKE @ Robogames 2008 [via]
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7 month ago
gleuschk : Math protest on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - reminds me of my "Algebra not War" sign from the SF protests in 2003
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