Flickr is not just a photo sharing site. It's a community, a toolset and maybe it's a way of life. You can post images from Flickr to your blog or other web site. You can upload images via e-mail or direct from your mobile phone. You can swap, share, geo-tag (add location data) and creative commons copyright your photos, screen shots and digital artwork. Think of Flickr as your personal image management centre.
This book provides an "open sesame" to this Aladdin's cave.. in one 'easy to read' volume. It delivers both an overview of the vast range of Flickr uses as well as detailed recipes, including code, on 'how to'.
The code samplets might just deter some less technical book shop browsers from buying. That's a shame, as even those with no intention of ever writing any Perl or PHP or otherwise accessing the Flickr API will find more than enough to interest them.
This single volume overview helps 'fast track' your Flickrability, giving you a short cut down the learning curve. That's what "hacks", and the whole wonderful O'Reilly Hacks series, are all about.
The exposition of the variety of these Flickr apps actually inspires you to think outside the frame and conjure up your own Flickr apps.
It's got me using my camera phone shopping and in household and automobile maintenance. See another great O'Reilly book in your local book shop but want to compare prices with another store? Click the book's image and check later. We needed oven repairs but couldn't tell the model, so click and Flickr, forward the URL to the supplier's tech department for advice. There's a crack in the retaining wall. Click it, date it, check back later to see if it's getting worse. Not all these uses are flickr apps, of course, but they show you how the 'new' technologies of cameras, camera phones, and the web work together. And Flickr has emerged as a key part of the story. They are delivering new "synergies" for everyday life.
I've been thinking of using my camera phone and Flickr to create a web based inventory for my book, CD and DVD library. Click and flickr avoids lots of typing. Sounds good to me. Why not a Flickr based 'business card' database? It would be shareable and accessible, for both upload and view, from multiple platforms. And you can control user access fairly easily. And the relatively small size of camera phone images is an advantage. It makes uploads easier. The Flickr hacks book doesn't tell you how to do these two specifically, but it does provide the tool kit.
"Flickr Hacks" gives us a few hints at the life story of Flickr itself. It tells us how Flickr began life as multi-user on-line game. It would be great to get more background of this kind. I suppose that will have to wait for another book. Hopefully we'll see "the Flickr Story" one of these days.
ISBN-13: 978-0596102456
ISBN-10: 0596102453
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