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Oracle AppsLab: Why Flickr Rules Even if You Don’t Share Photos

  • Jim · 1 year ago
    That's news to me. I never realised you could do that - I've previously used http://www.sxc.hu/ for free photos, but now I know you can use Flickr to do the same (with attached conditions), I think I'll try that in future as the photos are much better. And the flickr site is rather very slick indeed.
    Thanks for the tip
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Glad to help, you can find outstanding work on Flickr.
  • megbear · 1 year ago
    I also love the idea of searching photos for images to make my point. I love having visuals but am not always good at thinking of "what" they are. Searching the photo libraries often give me excellent ideas I would never have thought of myself to visually represent my ideas.
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Me too, I used to use Google Image Search to find keywords, but that's not as useful as searching Flickr because the images are tagged and described, not just near a keyword on a web page somewhere.
  • everythingsteve.com · 1 year ago
    Jake--Nice posts on Flickr...both this one and the newer one. My employer (ahem) doesn't provide a lot of RF stock photos for use in PPTs, etc., so the ability to use CC-licensed images is nice. Thanks for the explanation. One concern: will Yahoo! continue to invest in Flickr given its ongoing issues as a company? That's more a rhetorical question than one specifically for you.
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Yahoo has very little cred in 2.0 aside from its acquisitions of Delicious, Upcoming and Flickr. These sites make Y! more attractive to potential buyers, Flickr especially because of its large user base and their rabid support of the site. Remember how they reacted to the MSFT offer? Flickr (and the others) aren't going anywhere.
  • David Goldstick · 1 year ago
    Yahoo! may have little cred in 2.0 now -- but I see this growing over time. Especially if they position their flagship properties to harness the "semantic web." I hate to drop buzz words like that, but just check out the potential of Ubiquity from Mozilla. I see Ubiquity functionality as an evolution of web 2.0 -- web 3.0 if you will. Ref: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubi...

    - Multiple APIs & Web Services that connect their properties: http://developer.yahoo.com/
    - Yahoo Social API's (Member of OpenSocial): http://developer.yahoo.com/social/
    - Yahoo OneConnect for iPhone: http://mobile.yahoo.com/oneconnect/iphone
    - Mashups: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
    - Yahoo User Interface Library tools: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    They've definitely made some smart moves lately, especially opening up a lot of data, but let's be honest, acquired properties like Flickr, Delicious and Upcoming gives them way more stroke than all those others combined. Oh and you forgot Fire Eagle, also acquired.

    I'm still waiting for a strategy to emerge.

    I like Ubiquity too (blogged about it when it was released), but it has failed to stick as a must-have for me. Good idea, not compelling enough yet.