Flickr API’s
August 11th, 2008 by trottahe
One of my favorite books that I read at Columbia was Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Barabasi. I read this book for a course in Social Software that I took when blogs and wikis were just beginning to be popular. In looking back, I am amazed how social software has evolved and how information is passed from one individual to another in this linked world.
On my Google home page, I have a gaget that shows photos at random from my favorite FLICKR contacts. Alan Levine, at NMC, is one I follow and it is through one of his FLICKR entries that I found out about these two FLICKR API’s that I wanted to document. I am a big FLICKR fan; there are so many amazing photographers on this site that are more than willing to share their photos just my giving them credit.
However, FLICKR is difficult to search. These two applications make the process easier. One is compflight.com and the other flickrcc.bluemountains.net. I love these interfaces for they make searching for photos so much easier. Thanks Alan for sharing!!!!
