Over the weekend flickr and upcoming.org both announced new features, increasing the utility and integration between the Yahoo! stable of sites.
First up we have the very cool addition of proper geocoding in flickr. No more geotagged and geo:lat/lon tags. If you have pictures that you’ve previously geotagged then those can be imported into the new system in the background (plus they’re looking at cleaning up the geo* tags later on after import). API methods for developers are due to be released real soon now.
Then, over at upcoming.org — the global event calendar — they’ve just launched a raft of new shiny things including improved event filters and an “Undiscovered events” facility. This pulls events from Yahoo! Local that haven’t been added by the community yet, allowing the pre-seeding of Metros and easing the burden on adding common events.
Finally, in a nifty piece of cross site development, you can tag an image over at Flickr with the special upcoming:event=$eventID tag, that picture will then appear on the event page on upcoming.org. This little tweak is a personal favourite of mine.
I’ve just been reading the slides (.pps) for a presentation Cal Henderson of Flickr gave at Web Design World, San Francisco last month. There are some very interesting numbers on the 4th page.
It would be interesting to find out what percentage of those 93 million photos are licensed under a Creative Commons style license. I’m sure I came across an article that gave some numbers a while back but my google-fu is letting me down. Does anyone else remember seeing that?
(368 Terabytes!!)
Hat tip: Adactio
Well that wasn’t too bad. Cleaned out some old pictures while I was moving them across, but hopefully no one will miss anything major.
There are still a few kinks to work out
Oh yeah, and the really cool thing is that I can now embed images into other node types, as you may have noticed!
Update: Changed the link to the EUVolt pictures.
