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As Christmas Eve is around today, I wish you the Merry Christmas, and I made the short project gallery to select most of my favorite pictures by Flickr users titled, Sign Language Wonders. This is the eye-candy treat for your Christmas to bring the best merry of all.
This area is just couple blocks away from my workplace, I sneak down to look new arena, home of Pittsburgh Penguins:
I couldn't be happier to be part of '2009 City of Champions'. Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl in February and Pittsburgh Penguins won Stanley Cup recently in June in same year.
Been avid Flickr user since 2004, I just discovered that my few photos made into Flickr's Explore page. I like to call it interestingness.
Flickr gave us the definition of the interestingness:
There are lots of elements that make something 'interesting' (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.
As of March 11, 2009, out of 1,540 photos posted in my Flickr, I had nine explored pictures, six are currently in and three were dropped.
The tools can be found in Scout: Find your photographs in Flickr's Explore to take a quick look to find if your Flickr photos are explored'.
Flickr finally launched the video feature, and I began playing around with this; take a comparison between Flickr Video and YouTube:
This video is original 320x240 video resolution with 30 frame per second, What do you think the quality of video?
If you're member of Flickr account, you're in the luck to have a upload videos with limit of 150 MB or 90 seconds. It is just beginning...
I took my responsibility running the Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf (PAD) deaf clubhouse website, powered with WordPress (WP), along with few plug-ins helps to beef up the cool features such as event calendar and gallery.
Last October 2007, I installed FAlbum, a WP plugin for Flickr photo to feed Flickr photos directly into PAD website to display the photos.
Until last week, I discovered 'Slickr Gallery', the most slick AJAX Flickr plugin for WP, and I began experimenting with this in PAD website just for fun. Here it is - the plugin looks so incredible and web-rich, make you feel more mood and exictment level to navigate the photos!
I have notice the differences between WP Flickr plugin: FAlbum and Slickr, such as advantages and disadvantages:
- Slickr does not provide specific URI address for a photo set page and individual photo page. FAlbum does.
- FAlbum supports EXIF data, tags, Flickr notes, download photo sizes what Slickr does not have.
- Slickr is currently active in development; FAlbum is somewhat slow in development
- FAlbum have several AJAX errors, and somewhat poor style pages
- Slickr is easy to install and configure in WP to administrate, FAlbum is somewhat little complicated
- FAlbum needs some with web coding knowledge to modify and fix in back-end
Well, I decide to keep both WP Flickr plugins, to separate the old version and web-rich version in front-end PAD website for user-friendly who wants to download the photos in old version page, and savvy-user enjoy their time to surf web-rich version.
W00t! Flickr is fun to view photos. Especially the numbers. Yesterday Flickr announced the stats are now available for your photos - only to Pro account users who paid $25 per year for having a unlimited photos and huge amount of bandwidth. The data includes the traditional stats, such as most views, search engine referrers, breakdown of photo stats including count of your public photos, geotagging, interestingness, most favorites/comments and what can I say more?
I participated the group photo sharing site, 24 hours of Flickr for only one day on Saturday, May 5th 2007, in favor of taking my photo for Deaf culture or on Deaf places.
Here is brief description about 24 hours of Flickr:
To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. On May 5 2007......only submit one (1) photo take.......event will be commemorated by a companion 24 Hours of Flickr book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group. Additionally, the group's photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer.By adding your [our] photo to this group, you understand that it may be selected for publication in the 24 Hours of Flickr commemorative book and/or displayed at a Flickr-sponsored event this summer.
I would feel great and proud myself if, if, if, IF my photo publish into the book. My old WPSD alumni and a friend, MoneyLeo13 also participated in this group.
By the anyway, Flickr blog made an announcement today: new version/look of slideshow along with my personal favorite Flickr photos around the globe. For Windows, press F11 button on your keyboard on web browser for full beauty view of slideshow.
I tried out my first time (pah!) to order the prints through Yahoo / Flickr site.
Around 1 a.m. last night, I went Flickr's PAD Deaf Club photos page, selected 17 photos to order the prints through Target location nearby my home. The receipt from Flickr site said it cost around $5 dollars (includes service cost).
I went Target store today with my proof printed receipt, and I never expected that Target also offer $1.40 off (and no service cost??) for orders and price difference, and the final sale is $1.05.
$1.05 for seventeen printed pictures! Sweet.
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I also posted past three top 25 pictures of the year (2002-2004) in previous entry. Enjoy!
This picture is what you are seeing above is not related to mine or friends'. It is someone's photoblog in Flickr, linked in my favorite pictures here listed such as precious, geeky, emotion, nudity (work-safe), energetic and humorous. Definitely worth a look.
