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If you follow me on twitter, you probably saw about 32 tweets spew from my blog, thanks to WP-O-Matic blowing chunks all over my blog, which Twitter Tools dutifully reported as new posts.
I’m attempting to set up automatic photo blogging from my Flickr photo stream. Flickr produces RSS feeds for each tag, so I’m using [...]

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Today is Flickr’s fifth birthday! To mark the occasion, here is the very first photo I uploaded to Flickr on June 30, 2004 (I actually took that picture in 2003 with my Canon A100).

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The latest meme seems to be pandas vomiting rainbows, first seen at Flickr’s explore page.
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I like to check Flickr’s camera finder page every few days to see how popular the D90 is. As I write this, the D90 is ranked 15 of 102 Nikon models. Less than a week ago, it wasn’t even listed. Yesterday it was #19, a jump of 4 places in one day.
Here’s a shot I [...]

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Flickr Blog introduced Yahoo’s new Start Wearing Purple campaign. I sure hope they got permission from Gogol Bordello to use that name.

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I don’t know if this is documented anywhere, but I found that it’s possible to create a smart album to track photos that have been uploaded to Flickr using the FlickrExport plugin.
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FlickrExport adds a metadata tag with the Flickr URL when it uploads a photo. When you create a smart album, one [...]

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I’ve uploaded the rest of my Photowalk shots to Flickr. You can see the entire set here. The entire group’s photos can be seen here.

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I spent the weekend modifying ObjectiveFlickr to work on the iPhone, which was mostly a matter of changing the response handling code that depends on NSXMLDocument. I was pretty much able to plug in my MCFlickrParser class, which I use in LOLCats, to create a NSDictionary structured very much like the XML document.
Yesterday I was [...]

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UPDATE: Minutes after I posted this, I got a notice from Apple that the update has been approved and is now ready for sale.
Apple still hasn’t approved my update to LOLCats. Still no response from Apple for the second update, which I feel is pretty urgent, since it reduces the possibility of inappropriate images appearing, [...]

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Until I started poking around in Flickr’s Objective C code, I didn’t realize that Zooomr supported a variant of Flickr’s API. I found that it’s fairly easy to port code which uses Flickr to Zooomr. In less than an hour, I had LOLCats working with Zooomr. I plan to include Zooomr support in the other [...]

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I’ve received a few complaints about some images that showed up in the LOLCats application.
Unfortunately I have very little control over which images appear (except for the one that appears in the initial loading screen, which is my own cat, Cody). I simply search Flickr for the tags ‘LOLCAT’ or ‘LOLCATS’ and present any [...]

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After trying SmugMug for a few days, I’ve decided to keep it, although I’ll still continue to use Flickr.
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SmugMug has several pros & cons in comparison with Flickr. SmugMug lets you create really beautiful galleries where you can customize both the color theme and the photo layout. The default layout shows thumbnails [...]

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Since I’m using FeedBurner for this blog’s feed, I’ve activated Photo Splicer, so my latest photos on Flickr will now appear in my feed.

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As you probably know, Flickr introduced their video feature earlier this week. Unfortunately their effort is half-assed and only detracts from the site. They only allow videos of 90 seconds or less, which isn’t really useful. It’s obviously meant for the short videos you can take with many point-and-shoot cameras or cell phones, but there [...]

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Flickr has added a new feature, Find Friends, which can import a Yahoo Mail, GMail, or Windows Live address book and add anyone already a member of Flickr as a contact.

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I’m sure everyone has heard about Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo.
Yahoo owns two sites I use regularly, Flickr and del.icio.us. It isn’t clear how they’d be affected if Microsoft does buy Yahoo.
When we trust our data to a site like Flickr, we trust that it will always be there. I’m not predicting that they’ll [...]

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