Comments on: Introducing FlickrFan http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/ Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Windows 7 AFP RSS Photo Theme « Netweb http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188983 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:37:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188983 [...] on FlickrFan and the AFP photostream read Dave’s post A taste of FlickrFan, Om Malik’s Introducing FlickrFan, Read Write Web’s Dave Winer’s new photo viewing software or Scobleizer’s The [...]

]]> By: Rewriting Dave Winer’s “Revolution” in ten lines of Ruby — d8c.org http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188982 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:42:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188982 [...] one of the good guys, says it’s “understandable that some are underwhelmed” but he likes the concept. Which he had in our hands, be it via 12 lines of Ruby or [...]

]]> By: Wilde Jagd | Re-Writing Dave Winer’s “Revolution” in a few lines of Ruby http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188981 Fri, 02 May 2008 19:36:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188981 [...] one of the good guys, says it’s “understandable that some are underwhelmed” but he likes the concept. Which he had in our hands, be it via 12 lines of Ruby or [...]

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188980 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:39:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188980 If you re-do the app in XUL or Java, it will make the cross-platform stuff a breeze.

As a “poor Linux” user that would rock.

]]> By: Bob http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188979 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:01:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188979 Yep it’s been done before, and it’s a nice idea. However I can’t help feeling that there is a huge amount of potential in the metadata being stored with every photo on Flickr. How about an interface where the thumbnails for pictures coagulate together based on the tags that are applied or a multi-dimensional navigator that arranges photos in a virtual space by shutter speed=X, aperture size=Y and for a third dimension add ISO setting=Z

If Dave Winer is really as clever as people seem to think, this sort of thing should be a walk in the park for him.

]]> By: Julian http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188978 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:29:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188978 Your article has made me think… a YouTube RSS feed that randomly shows various videos has no use, but what if, newsflash style, a Youtube RSS Feed alerts you to a new video post on a channel, or a specific event like a localised news event or a sports result? That would be a useful application.

]]> By: Ben Cooper’s Weblog » Blog Archive » A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 10 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188977 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:57:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188977 [...] Om Malik [...]

]]> By: What FlickrFan might become « Bob Morris: Investing, tech, coffee. http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188976 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:00:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188976 [...] 29, 2007 — Bob Morris As broadband becomes faster, who is to say that we can’t randomly pull videos (that some day will be better quality than today) that interest us from YouTube and automatically [...]

]]> By: Bob Morris http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188975 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:46:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188975 Take in one step further. Create a incoming stream of videos with FlickrFan, filter them to create your own “tv station”, then broadcast it on the web.

The filtering would be the important part, to create an outgoing stream of videos on the same topic. If the videos had metadata, then the filtering would be fairly easy.

]]> By: Peter McCabe http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188974 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:35:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/27/introducing-flickrfan/#comment-188974 Mmm … forgive me for sounding a little brittle, but there is nothing new in this concept at all. Quite apart from the ‘it was available here before / PCs can do it already with this … ‘ chat … all valid, but putting aside the tech side of things, let’s just consider the core concept – randomly looking at lots of your pictures / videos / whatever over time.

Every time my wife gets out the ‘holiday / wedding / her youth / my youth / blah blah blah’ pics, and begin to randomly show off the entire collection to whatever guest has enjoyed dinner and of course not a little wine with us, I become frigid with boredom.

Now, I love my wife. The holiday was a pleasure, the wedding my finest day, her youth pretty damn interesting and my youth, well, I have to give it a nod, it was after all the making of me.

But a random stream of photos of the above? I don’t need it, I really don’t! You want me to spend the next hour / day / weeks constantly staring into some freeze-framed / video restricted snapshot of some long gone moment. Sure, I am happy they are there, and I want to dip in or go find from time to time. But streaming? Constantly? What happened to the here and now.

So, nothing new here. Just a (not so) fresh spin on the age old ‘have you seen our holiday snaps?’ horror that need never show its teeth, made worse by there being no guests, no dinner, no wine, and no end in site.

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