Category Archives: flickr
Return of the Blog
Gigaom recently published an article that highlights an important point. A point that has been resonating through my head since Lift 07:
In this incredible sea of data that surround us, what happens to my data when a service like Twitter or Flickr or FriendFeed is sold to another company.
Gigaom writes:
The cynical me believes that [...]
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How to Resize Photos
My family’s email account in Blantyre was blocked twice in the past week, due to well-meaning but over-sized Christmas and New Year email greetings. Attachments with over 2 MBs. The family is still on a phone line with a very slow connection rate. And downloading emails with a large attachment takes forever and a day. [...]
Also posted in General, Malawi, Photos, africa, blogger, blogging Tagged change size, flickr, gimp, irfanview, jpeg, Malawi, ms paint, paint, picasa, resize photos, slow internet connection 3 Comments
Blogging is so 2004
LOL at this Wired article!
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
I agree with the author. Blogging is so 2004. For the record: I installed WordPress on this server in September 2004. Time to pull the plug.
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr [...]
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From Riehen to Grenzach Wyhlen
Here are the snapshots of the second architecture tour that I took part in:
We cycled from Tinguely Museum in Basel and stopped at various points in Riehen and Grenzach Wyhlen.
Heard about Hans Bernoulli and his Garden City idea to provide improved housing for the working class as well as a patch of ground to [...]
Tagaroo and other links
Pêle-mêle off the top my head:
In my daily reads, I stumbled across a Wordpress plugin called Tagaroo. It reminded me of Zemanta. I haven’t tried it out. But I guess the interesting part is that it is being sponsored/developed by media giant Thomson Reuters as part of the Calais project.
As usual I’ve been taking lots [...]
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Mulanje
I just surfed through lots of cool new photos in the Malawi group on Flickr.
Including these photos of Mulanje mountain by Lisa de Vreede:
Also posted in Malawi, Photos, africa, blogger, wordpress Tagged flickr group, Malawi, photography, travel 2 Comments
Twitter, SMS and Africa
This recent Twitter announcement is disappointing on a personal level, but also on a more global level as White African discusses:
Twitter represents a change in communication. By acting as a global gateway for updates via SMS (or the web), that then updates all of your followers, Twitter succeeded in breaking ground in one-to-many messaging. [...]
Puzzled
This t-shirt text puzzled me this morning…
ZIM
TST
ERN
I figured it out after a while but at first I kept associating ZIM with Zimbabwe.
I’ve uploaded two batches of snapshots to my Flickr stream. I’m a snapshotter at heart and I’m not spending much time correcting or editing my work (yet).
Unhindered by talent or technical skills, [...]
Also posted in Photos, basel Tagged chiperoni.ch, flickering, flickr, photo stream, photo tour, photography, photowalking 3 Comments
Working for one week in SF
I’ve uploaded my wild snapshots of San Francisco covering smoothies, books, bikers, shopping, browsing magazines, coffee, cars, Ocean Beach, the hotel, buildings, streets, public transport, signs, Lufthansa and waiting.
Flickr slideshow
BTW, I didn’t see a single Clinton 08 poster, I did see several Obama 08 posters and a guy selling Obama buttons. I guess, it doesn’t [...]
Greek version of Nutella
added to the Nutella alternatives group.
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I am a snow bird
just got back from one week Southern Florida.
More snaps in my Flickr stream:
http://flickr.com/photos/chiperoni/
or
on black in my Satellite gallery.
Kind of like Slickr
When I read Scoble’s post on FlickrFan, I felt it sounded a lot like Slickr, a screensaver tool to view Flickr photos, that I’ve been using for a while.
And today while installing the Flickr plugin for Quicksilver I saw this post:
View Your Flickr Pics as Your Screensaver with FlickrFan
with this small addition at the end:
Windows [...]
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Upload to Flickr with Quicksilver
This looks useful:
Upload to Flickr with Quicksilver
The QS plugin page is here.
I still need to try out the new Flickr Uploadr that was released a couple of weeks ago.
The Cloud Appreciation Society
Just heard about the The Cloud Appreciation Society.
Here’s the corresponding Flickr group.
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uploads
i’ve measured my life out in flickr uploads
here’s another life phase
The Nutella Alternatives Group at Flickr
Yay, the Nutella Alternatives group is growing (world dominion imminent…).
Recent additions include:
The question
Why spend so many hours and bytes on Nutella and derivatives?
It’s a web differentiator! And when people wander thru the shopping aisles with their phone cams they need a purpose.
The Flickr group lists all the details:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nutellaalternative/
Childhood memories
As regular readers of [...]
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Weekend Thoughts
I just installed GIMPshop on my (no longer new) MacBook. And the interface looks a lot simpler.
And I received a Skitch invite. I don’t like the pink heart icon much. Kitsch.
But I somehow managed to get past that and watch the introductory video (!). The features look very useful. It offers a direct upload [...]
Lego face
Seen in Martin Gyger’s Flickr stream:
These lego faces are fun!
Just like web icons… you can see the pixels when you zoom in.
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Flickriver
Scrolling Ad Infinitum:
I discovered a new Flickr tool called Flickriver…
It loads all images into one long html page, i.e. you simply scroll down to view all pictures for a tag or group:
My contacts
My faves
Malawi group
Canon ImageBrowser to FlickrUploadr:
BTW, I’ve found a shortcut how to add photos from Canon ImageBrowser to Flickr Uploadr. In the ImageBrowser, [...]
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Ipernity Q and A
Via Flickr mail I asked somebody who seems to be on the Ipernity payroll:
Thanks for leaving a comment in my photostream.
I was wondering if you could answer my question regarding Ipernity’s funding.
Who are the investors?
Is it independent? Is it funded by venture capital? Or does it belong to another company?
See my blog post: The most [...]
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Basel artist Martin Gyger
Basel-based artist and illustrator, Martin Gyger, has launched a website:
The site uses Satellite and a Flickr account to display the artwork. Simple.
Couple of my favorites are [1] [2] [3]
Browse thru the site, send a friendly welcome email, or leave a Flickr comment…
The most interesting pictures
The most interesting pictures by nchenga
Cos I don’t have a Pro account at Flickr, the above link only finds the most interesting based on my last 200 snapshots.
BTW, it seems there’s a viable alternative at Ipernity. At least it loads a lot faster than Zooomr, it offers a tidy layout, and the texts have [...]
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nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again?
In my case, that would be lots of ‘em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround. [...]
Snapshot from Budapest