Flickr Hive Mind
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Sorry not to be posting recently, but I have been coding up a Flickr photo mining tool I hope you will like. There's lots to do yet, but I think it's ready for a beta test:
www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi
What can you do right now?
Search and display photos, with thumbnails up to 250x250, by Tags, Text, Username, Recentness, or Explore.
Retrieve up to 500 results at a time - little or no paging, as long as your computer can deal with it and flickr doesn't revoke my API keys.
Todo list:
a) No authentication yet, so this will only find public photos.
DONE
b) No searching of contacts or favorites yet.
COMPLETE
c) I want to add a license filter you can retrieve only photos that offer certain license terms.
COMPLETE
d) It will be easy to add intelligent reading of date formats people type in, but that's not there yet...
This tool is dedicated to
AnnuskA Hjärta and her Flickritis.
Also thanks to
Flickr Leech for inspiration.
Comments
You know, when I picked two photos off flickr
for inclusion in a book last year I did think
it was the world's biggest picture agency if
only someone made searching it quicker and
more easy, like just showing masses of
thumbnails at once... some
"amateur" stuff on here beats shots
we get from professional agencies into a
little woolly bobble hat for quality. Mind
you, out of work hours I suspect one could
spend ENTIRELY too much time on flickr with
this!
Posted 14 months ago.
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So how many tags brought up this selection of
50? I'm estimating about 35? Until now I
never saw the point of tags. Steam-age mind.
Posted 14 months ago.
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Ah, but the selection of 50 in the image was
by "Interestingness" (Explore), a
much more complex algorithm via social
networks (who looked at, who favorited, who
commented, etc).
Posted 14 months ago.
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wow! I bet that's quite hard to do!!
Posted 14 months ago.
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No, it's not hard, only took about 12 hours
to do. If you are a nerd.
Posted 14 months ago.
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Wow, very cool! Flickr-turbo-browsing! Now
I'm really not going to get any studying
done! I just read some interesting literature
on tagging and folksonomies in my indexing
class--I'm trying to figure out how to get
credit for playing around, I mean, doing
scholarly research, on Flickr. :)
Posted 14 months ago.
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24 March 2007: I've added one major new
feature - Authentication . Now after authentication you can see all
photos your flickr account is authorized to
see.
Posted 14 months ago.
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Cool, and not at all nerdy. Well OK, quite
nerdy. Inspired me to make a new screen
saver collage... Let me know when you have
developed your own interestingness algorithm
with user configurable parameters ;-)
Posted 14 months ago.
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Actually, turning any set of photos returned
by the tool into a montage was in fact a request from Charles , and shouldn't be that hard except for
possible denial of service attacks.
Posted 14 months ago.
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Added: Filtering by creative commons license.
Now it is easy to find pictures that could
be used for public or even commercial
activities.
Posted 14 months ago.
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Today I realized that Flickr Leech don't
work. As I searched for an answer, I found
this tool.Access to your photos (including private
photos) www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi/user/Musli
ma2006 with on klick .
Posted 8 months ago.
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Muslima2006:www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi/user/Musli
ma2006
Posted 7 months ago.
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You can now bookmark any page within Flickr
hive mind, as well as generate RSS feeds.
Posted 4 months ago.
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