{"id":972,"date":"2009-03-10T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=972"},"modified":"2009-03-12T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T03:31:46","slug":"online-photo-db-stage-6-deeper-evaluation-of-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2009\/03\/10\/online-photo-db-stage-6-deeper-evaluation-of-flickr\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Photo DB: Stage 6b &#8211; Deeper evaluation of Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"aside\">This post is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/tag\/online-photo-database\/\">Online Photo Database project documentation<\/a>. Learn more about the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/12\/03\/online-photo-database-project-status\/\">current status<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>These notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/\">Flickr Pro<\/a> are based on a (slightly) deeper evaluation I did in early December. They should be read in conjunction with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/11\/30\/online-photo-db-stage-4n-evaluation-of-flickr-pro\/\">previous notes<\/a> on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Each bullet point has been given a general rating; I reckon you can figure out the rating system explanation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; While Flickr has been around for years, the co-founders left the organisation in June.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Yahoo (the owners) have a history of forcing users to migrate their photos.<\/li>\n<li>+ The API looks fine and WEB 2.0-ey.<\/li>\n<li>+ There are three different Python-wrappers for the APIs.<\/li>\n<li>+ I did a routine check for <product name>sucks.com. It is worth checking out what I found: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041223044452\/http:\/\/www.flickrsucks.com\/\">www.flickrsucks.com<\/a> (archived version)<\/product><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; I was shown adverts, for example, during the photo uploads. I expect that would go away when I upgraded to Flickr Pro.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Won&#8217;t read copyright owner info from the Exif (even Windows can do that!)<\/li>\n<li>? Flickr Pro gets the you the &#8220;collections&#8221; feature, but I don&#8217;t know yet what that is.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; The has buttons that say &#8220;Thanks&#8221; instead of &#8220;Ok&#8221; in places. I bet some people like that. I don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>-&thinsp;- I have to take away some of the credit for CAT11 (Area or points of photograph tagged). You can tag &#8220;notes&#8221; on a rectangle on the photo, but they are not real tags. They cannot be easily corrected (e.g. update the spelling of Crystal&#8217;s name to Kristarll everywhere it appears); they don&#8217;t appear in tag clouds; and you can&#8217;t give the url easily &#8211; they require a full-text search to find.<\/li>\n<li>+ Flickr tags can be added by someone else. I tried adding a tag to someone-else&#8217;s photo. It seemed simple enough, but I didn&#8217;t get to see the back-end approval process. Is there one?<\/li>\n<li>&#8212; I don&#8217;t know why I claimed that COMM2 was a Y; I don&#8217;t believe there is any notification to you if you are tagged in a photo.<\/li>\n<li>-&thinsp;-&thinsp;- Only privacy options are Yes or No to Public, Yes or No to Family, Yes or No to Friends. That&#8217;s not good enough for scenarios 1, 2 or 4 (e.g. the Vegas trip)<\/li>\n<li>-&thinsp;-&thinsp;- I can&#8217;t change which EXIF data is displayed. Most EXIF data is irrelevant to most people.<\/li>\n<li>-&thinsp;- I think the site is a bit cluttered, in that the amount of screen aimed at actually displaying the photographs seems minimal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Conclusion<\/h4>\n<p>Flickr has a much higher user-base amongst my friends, so the social networking aspects are likely to be more successful. It is probably a better fit for me than SmugMug. However, but I still feel that I will not be happy with Flickr. I hope that the self-hosted options prove to be more successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deeper evaluation of Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[284,48,376],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-geek","tag-online-photo-database","tag-photography","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}