Filed under: Internet, Photo, Blogging, Google, Yahoo!, Time-Wasters
Watch live photo uploads with flickrvision
by Ian Smith May 15th 2007 at 7:30PM
If there is one web 2.0 application that has "made it" then that application has got to be flickr. No other product is used as religiously by as diverse of user base as Yahoo's little photo sharing website. One of the key reasons for their success is the very powerful public API that lets users interact with the flickr archive via other applications.Enter flickrvision. One part Google Maps, one part eavesdropping, 100% fun; flickrvision lets you watch users uploading photos live. The map view shows where the user is uploading from and a small snapshot of the photo is displayed over the location. Clicking on the photo reveals a larger version in the center of the screen while map continues to update in the background. Clicking on a user name takes you, as you might expect, to the users profile on flickr. It is a pretty simple concept but quickly becomes wildly addictive.
Think flickrvision is cool? Then you might also like twittervision which follows the same concept and displays live twitters as they happen.
You can thank (and curse!) David Troy for both of these time wasters. Now if only he'd combine the two concepts and toss in some del.icio.us links and YouTube videos. Then we'd really have the ultimate web 2.0 mashup.
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berara said 6:30PM on 3-23-2008
i live in isreil
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