Who knew flowers through fences was a thing? I’m in.
Flickr is still pretty wonderful. But it’s lovely in the same way a box of old photos you’ve stashed under the bed is. It’s an archive of nostalgia that you love dearly, on the rare occasion you stumble across it.
Excellent write up and should go down in the internet archives as a great lesson of what not to do. I especially connect with the idea that “Integration Is The Enemy of Innovation.” But I’m a last hold out that things might get better for both Flickr and Delicious. Call me delusional but I just have a huge personal archive in both of these services.
Many of my contacts’ entire photostreams are made up of Instagram photos. In other words they are mere duplicate streams—with fewer comments and activity—of content that exists in primary form elsewhere. The only reason they are active on Flickr at all is because they automatically export there.
Count me as duplicating my Instagram stream. But I have also uploaded a wider edit on Flickr BECAUSE of the fact there are less people on Flickr.
If you can’t beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die.
Funny line.
Am I ever going to be forced to leave and migrate out of Flickr? I hope not. But… always good to have a Plan B.
These are fantastic. My favorite:
Trees cocooned in spiders webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan by DFID - UK Department for International Development on Flickr.
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.
In a word? Wow!
Just to be clear… this photo is from December 2010.
Yikes. Like I said, it’s worth while backing up your Flickr account.
UPDATE: Thanks for the update, couch. That’s fantastic.
“When something like Instagram comes along that’s fun and easy for people to take shots that look like they come from a toy camera — Instamatics — we are really grateful,” he (Matthew Rothenberg, who heads Flickr) said. “Out of the door, all of these things upload to Flickr.”
Yeah… I auto publish my Instagram to Flickr. Though sometimes the image loses its context (when I check in and the location isn’t carried over).
With all this said, I still think it’s worth backing up your Flickr account and maybe explore export/import tools. You never know…
from About Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.
Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no opponent.
And for longevity sake:
(HT @kottke)
