I’ve seen some interesting new things on Flickr this week and decided to consolidate the links in one post. I love Flickr and they just seem to get better and better.
Alan Levine has a post on a new “toy” SlideFlickr which allows you to quickly and easily create a slideshow from a flickr set. Lawrence Lessig has an interesting article on Web 2.0 Ethics and “sharing sites” comparing Flickr which makes it easy to download images and Youtube which does NOT. He discusses some other sharing sites and made me think about the subject of sharing and which sites actually embody the concept and which ones just ride along on the bandwagon. Definite food for thought.
If you haven’t visited Flickr:Creative Commons yet you are missing out. The first page defines the type of creative commons licenses you will run up against and then you can search photos and use them for non-commercial things (like your student’s project!!) without the copyright violation issues.
The last one for today is just gorgeous. I could just sit here and click and feed myself eyecandy. It’s called ColrPickr and it’s by KrazyDad. You choose a color on the beautiful color wheel and it displays a group of Flickr photos that fit the color. Now if this was just mashed up with Flickr Creative commons (hint! hint!)
You can also visit BigHugeLabs and find all kinds of toys that let you create new things with Flickr photos.
Have fun – I would love to hear from you and see what you are creating with Flickr!
Are you familiar with the website http://www.photojojo.com ? If you like doing fun stuff with your photos, this might be of interest to you. It’s pretty laid back and non-tech friendly so just about anyone can understand the directions they give for playing with your digital images. It’s a fairly new site, so there isn’t a great deal of content yet, but it is steadily growing.