Everybody and their brother were requesting nested albums from Flickr development team for as long as I’ve been using the service. Indeed, when switching from conventional photo gallery applications, it looked a bit surprising that one couldn’t create albums within albums (say album “Russia” within album “Travels”). With time, I forgot about this feature and … Continue reading Nested albums in Flickr, and more
I have yet another change in my RSS habits. I now use two RSS aggregators. As I mentioned before, my primary RSS reader now is Google Reader. It works perfectly for all those hundreds of feeds that I want to read, tag, search, and share. Every so often, Google developers add useful features and fix … Continue reading Another change in RSS habits
It’s been a while since I jumped on someone here. That’s because I don’t like jumping on people. And because I don’t care that much about what people who I don’t know personally say. But sometimes I just get in the mood and do it non-the-less. Today I am in such a mood, and the … Continue reading Disagreeing with Sharon Housley on Google
Don’t you just love it when something that you’ve been seriously suspecting, and trying to explain to people, is suddenly mentioned by someone else, together with some statistical data to back it up? Well, I do. As you’ve probably heard by now (a billion times), AOL has recently released a few million records of its … Continue reading You are what you search
I came across another treasure pool at Flickr. It is the The 1000 views + 100 favourites Pool. Only images that have been viewed a thousand times or more and favourited by a hundred people or more are allowed in there. Pure gold, if you ask me.