So Flickr got video. Wait a second… Flickr? Video? Shouldn’t Flickr be just for photos?

Well, for me Flickr is Beauty. Beauty, because there are so many people who are sharing the best and most beautiful moments of their lives with thousand of others. (Whatever beauty is for each individual in detail, I say that everyone will find his own definition of beauty on Flickr.)

Photos are Beauty. But videos can be Beauty, too. I’m not talking about those ordinary YouTube clips (and for me, personally, I’m not talking about everyday photos you can find on Flickr, even some of my pictures are just bog-standard) but about special moments in the lives of people. Seconds of their life which have a special meaning because they are just beautiful.

So video on Flickr might be a good thing, to add another piece of beauty to the lives of all of us.

Hello, Thanks for the tip. We greatly appreciate the time that you’ve taken to help us keep Flickr a community free of spam. We’ve scrubbed the Flickrverse of the spam and have terminated their account. Kind regards, Michelle

Flickr is really the only website I know which says “Thank you” for reporting spam.

flickr_likes += 1;

Taken in Stockholm, Sweden. Original image on Flickr.

I accidently stumbled over Cole’s photos over at Flickr and read about his project, Flagr in his profile.

Flagr is a place where you can share locations on a Google Map (well, that’s just the main idea). So you can for example mark your favourite Café, your home, places you have been and think that they might be interesting to others or you can show where you’ve done your Flickr images. However, the Flickr integration has not yet been implemented (and with Flickrs’ own plans there will be an active competition) but it’s really easy to include your shots or links to your photo pages.

Another startup with a great idea, powered by Ruby on Rails.

Your favourite Flickr search tag.

(mine is loft)

Leben
Originally uploaded by me.

I’m sure if you have a Flickr account, you are also using the Flickr badge on your blog or website to show your visitors your pictures. But have you ever noticed that this little piece of code won’t validate correctly? In fact, it even produces a whole list of errors. I’ll show you, how to avoid this (with less code and css info than the actual badge wrapper).

At first we wanna have a look at the original code, so here’s the css code

[code lang="css"]

flickrbadgesource_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}

flickrbadgeicon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}

flickricontd {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}

.flickrbadgeimage {text-align:center !important;} .flickrbadgeimage img {border: 1px solid black !important;}

flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;}

flickrbadgeuber_wrapper a:hover,

flickrbadgeuber_wrapper a:link,

flickrbadgeuber_wrapper a:active,

flickrbadgeuber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;}

flickrbadgewrapper {}

flickrbadgesource {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;}

[/code]

and the xhtml code [code lang="html"]

And now, here’s my version: CSS [code lang="css"]

flickrbadgewrapper img {

border: 1px solid #bbb; padding: 3px; margin: 5px; }

flickrbadgewrapper {

background-color: #fff; border: 0; width: 65%; text-align: center !important; } [/code]

XHTML [code lang="html"]

Simple, eh? Of course I didn’t think about every issue of the original badge but it should work on every other site too. So it basically does the same thing, except displaying the Flickr logo and it doesn’t use tables.

Update: You also have to substitute all your &’s in the flickr-link. Thanks to greer for that hint.

It’s an interesting experience, reading the Lifehacker-Feed and suddenly stumble upon an entry where you think: “I may know this person”. And actually I really do.

LiquidBlaze developed an dynamic web page and set it as the desktop background. The page is configured so that simple keypresses and clicks run web and desktop searches, local commands, hide and show bookmarks, switch between desktop and laptop profiles and control WinAmp. Not being much of an ActiveX developer I’m not sure exactly how this works. Still, I am filled with lust.

Read more about this great idea at lifehacker or at the flickr.

DSC_1278, originally uploaded by junku.

I really loves this one.

Alle jenen, die gerne viel Hightech auf wenig Raum sehen, sei dieser Flickr-Photostream von Textdrive empfohlen. Sieht wirklich gut aus ;-)