Archive for the 'flickr' Category
Library of Congress Releases 3100 photos on to Flickr
Related an ongoing discussion with regards to sharing and copyright (here) the Library of Congress have just placed 3100 photos on on to Flickr, (a photo sharing site). And the selected photos have no known copyright restrictions.
What’s interesting is that the library is harnessing the power of the Flickr community takes over, “We want […]
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Photosynth and the 3D web?
Very interesting demo (from the recent TED event). Essentially Photosynth is a new way of looking at photos and images on the computer. You can display a huge collection of photos, view particular images from different angles and zoom in to minute detail. So far so good. However the software is able generate a collection […]
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Flickr in Education
From Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3 by Brian Benzinger. Web Link
Lots of great things in the article. The items on flickr are particularly interesting.
“I can also see Flickr being used in photography classes allowing students to keep an organized collection of their work, share their photos with the world, […]
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Flickr, Flickr and more Flickr
I’m currently in the middle of an article on school use of podcasts, blogs and videos. The photo sharing site Flickr also gets a mention together with some great examples and more links. As is the way of things I’ve now been completely sidetracked into looking at the use of Flickr for teaching and learning.
For […]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. […]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. […]
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Web 2.0 on the rise…
…but still a long way to go. Couple of reports on web 2.0 stats
Web 2.0 not so user-generated after all?
By Reuters
Sobering and brief article on web 2.0 in terms of users viewing and adding their own content. 3 of the main web 2.0 sites are considered:
youTube: “A tiny 0.16 per cent of visits to Google’s […]
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