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Photophlow, Flickr Social Network Redefined

0 comments Filed in Online Tagged with Apps•Invites•photography•photophlow•Social Networks April 22nd, 2008

Photophlow is probably the best third party flickr application, network, I’ve seen so far.

What is Photophlow?
It’s a chatroom. It’s another social network. It’s everything one would expect in 2008. Yes, it’s Beta.

Forget what I just wrote, Photophlow is much more. Photophlow takes the flickr API to a new level.

Small intro: After years of toying round with several Point&Shoot cameras I made the step. I always wanted to play more with photography but somehow never jumped in to it. This time I did and purchased a new Canon Digital Rebel XT. More than looking forward to my new love being delivered, last days I’ve been diving in to learning photography and the networks around.

Did I want your regular photography forum (or blog)? Negative. What I was looking for was a quick way to interact with people who really know their stuff, all while discovering great photography. Flickr is your friend. But so is SmugMug. Sadly those sites are nothing more than a waste of time, waste of time because of all the awesome discoveries.

Add Photophlow.

First remarkable aspect of Photophlow is that there’s no need to sign up. Photophlow uses the flickr user authentication process to login. Single sign on if one wants to. Once you’re logged in to flickr, you also are to Photophlow.

Once ~~logged in~~ online in Photophlow, you can join chatrooms based on the groups you are member of or create chatrooms for the groups you administer. And that’s where the fun starts.

In every chatroom, all flickr searches are public and display a list of results in the sidebar. On hover those pictures enlarge and on click they are posted to the room. You can immediately comment on flickr to every picture, favorite it, view the EXIF data or boil eggs with.

All in all, Photophlow so far is the fastest way to discover high level pictures and at the same time, if needed, share information about the technical factors.
But you can also use Photophlowg as a tumblelogging discovery engine.

Compulsory with the 2007 standards, Photophlow offers an integration with both Twitter and Tumblr API as well.

Compulsory invites for Photophlow available. (3 2).

Flickr Has Video

0 comments Filed in Online Tagged with Flickr•The Internetz April 11th, 2008

Since several days already, flickr has video. Huge protest waves have been ~~rick~~rolling the net and I must admit that I’m one of those people who still think that the internet is for text. But videos like this make me accept things, even video on flickr. Although I can imagine that there are things one does not want to see on flickr.

Such as 90 seconds of video, taken when sitting on the loo.

Disclaimer: Yes, I had almost uploaded a similar video. But in the end… the internetz iz 4 txt!!!1!!1!1!!!1

I’m A Geek, I Love Numbers

0 comments Filed in Geekery•Music•Online Tagged with last.fm•Nerdery•Numbers•Online Stat Nerds•Stat Nerdism•Stats•Twitter April 10th, 2008

Compulsory to the heart and soul of every ~~nerd~~ geek is the love for numbers. One of the few services I actually do pay for and even regularly check is Last.fm. Every Monday, sometimes even on Sunday night, I check what I listened most to in the preceding week and also check my all time stats. With more than 80.000 tracks scrobbled to my profile, time after time all time stats like these make me grin.

But there is better.

And to continue the number game, even though I still am not sure whether to be proud or not of my Twitter hate/love relationship, here’s some tweetscan stuff. From my active and my inactive twitter account. Before you ask why I have 2 accounts, I’ll explain you the stuff you aren’t interested in anyway: my first account was a residue of the personal blogging area. A twitter account in the category of noise. Loaded with lots of personal ~~internet drama~~ memories. I wanted to and had to move on some day. My actual account still is noise, just much less.
But the important thing about both graphs is that I actually might have to listen to all my friends and try to get a regular life schedule. Not have the period from 0:00 to 04:00AM be my most active period of the day.

The best thing about twitter in my case is when I started tweeting.

November 2006. :-)

Multitweet and Socialthing Invites Available

8 comments Filed in Online Tagged with Invites•last.fm•Memes•Multitweet•Socialthing April 3rd, 2008

Invites for Multitweet (5 4) and for Socialthing (2) available. Comment to grab your invite as long as available.

Wanted: Spotify invite. I want to experience what is next now last.fm really starts to bore me.

Liveuniverse Totally Has Lost The Plot

0 comments Filed in Online Tagged with Blogexplosion•Liveuniverse•Whatevah March 28th, 2008

Today’s story on LiveVideo in Valleywag made me laugh, made me genuinely LOL.

Yes, LiveVideo execs are losing the plot. Consider following concept to understand my joy more: run Blogexplosion on a monthly budget of $500.
After little more than a year ago, I, and Splashpress Media, tried to buy Blogexplosion for the sum of $135.000 plus 6 months of advertising (above the fold) for LiveVideo. Almost a year later we were contacted and asked for our highest bid. We offered $75.000 for the then already fast declining platform, but LiveUniverse had other illusions.

But only then the fun started. Regularly one LiveUniverse person started to contact me, whether it was to broker a fallen platform, Blogexplosion, whether to run it. After a while I sent in a proposal, based on a monthly $2500 budget, with an initial 5 number sum to totally revive the platform and redesign this outdated 2002 nuke-alike website. Answer: too expensive.
Nevertheless LiveUniverse still hoped to recover some of the $150k invested in BE when they bought it and continued to bug me.

Bug me with the option of equity. Equity in a quickly declining platform, a platform with most features turned off already. The offered equity would obviously be performance based, 20% spread over the next four years. With a budget of $500/month.

Dearest LiveUniverse,
obviously you are too greedy to throw in a basic MacBookPro (an investment of $1999, tax deductable even), knowing that the entire monthly budget will be used for your platform.
Here’s my answer to you: get a grip.

The Dilemma of RSS

0 comments Filed in Online•Tumbling Tagged with Blogging•Information•RSS February 16th, 2008

One more victim of RSS:

I treat RSS with undeserving priority, and this causes two big problems: 1) I’ll stop whatever I’m doing to read, flag, or ‘mark as read’ all new RSS items as they come in, and 2) I’ll go to absurd lengths to ensure I have zero unread items whenever I walk away from a computer.

This compulsion has reached the point of being a real problem, and I’m finally taking steps to rectify it.

Back in the old days, when I still wrote on blogs about blogging, I suffered a major RSS burn out. My OPML list had reached the amazing and less tantalizing number of 800 entries, and every day I had to drag my back part to read. Reading, which once used to be a passion of mine.

Over the last days, I have carefully been adding feeds to my newsreader again. Even entries from the good old past.

Blogs written by ~~pundits~~ wannabe pundits, overly ethical and always according to the KIAKIB (Know It All, Know It Better) principle.

I might prefer to go down the snarky Gawker and Valleywag path.

NADD. What Was The Problem?

0 comments Filed in Online•Real Life Tagged with NADD•Nerdism February 4th, 2008

NADD already has been the subject on this blog, thank to Rands, but last days I have noticed that my case is getting worse again. Courtesy of getting to know the Mac platform better, worrying less about dating and way too many things going on right now, I must admit that my focus seems to come back.

What proves this? My NADD. The numbers of projects I have been taking on over the last 2 weeks has significantly grown again, with the usual pressure of having taken on way too much already. And still I usually manage to find some time to discover new stuff.
Tell me what’s on your tray, screen right now. And what else goes through your mind?

This is my palette right at the moment:

As usually music is playing. Stalk me at last.fm. I even manage it to skip tracks, I don’t like, in Party Shuffle .
Both Mail and NetNewsWire are constantly open and update regularly. I love to keep both read and answered if needed. I like it clean, empty.
The usual tabs (around 7) are open in Safari and checked regularly .
Coda has become a part of my daily after work workflow. In Coda, 2 projects: a WP design and Chyrp. Both call for Photoshop with 2 different mockups.
Today I have been playing with Tablecloth and Blueprint.
Several IRC rooms open in Colloquy.
Restricted IM profile in Adium and obviously Twitterific.

Other thoughts occupying me right at the moment are the day job and the project we recently started plus two major annoyances we bumped in to at work last 10 days. Those 3 factors actually already large enough to occupy most people and make them look forward to a relaxed evening in front of the tube.

But in the evening, when arriving home, there’s the bane of the online presence calling me. The inconvenience about being in the active online back end world, wanting to stay up to date? It’s not the high amount of hours or the double shift, it’s the desire of always wanting to try out the newest stuff. New software, new online platforms and applications even . It’s the thrill to learn new stuff.

And then there’s the dating thing and upcoming V-Day. I have been invited already. I haven’t RSVP’ed yet.

Right now, I must take care of my laundry though and then spend an hour cleaning. I think. If the internet doesn’t call me back. Or new entries tumbled in my feed reader.
Luckily I have no kids, that would just dry me insane!

I do not visit social networks anymore. I have left the sphere around problogging and both were a relieve. I also have buried some other ongoing annoyances from last 2 years: exes and the trainwreck BlogExplosion.

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