Week 6 Homework Question: Testing Flickr (13 April 2005)
Create an account on Flickr. Upload a few photos, and play around with the various features of the system. Add contacts, search tags, add comments or notes to your own (or other people's) photos.
Write about your impressions of the site. How does this compare to other onlne photo services you've used? How is it different? Better? Worse?
Until now I did not notice that there was another week 6 homework question on this link (apart from the one under the discussions tab) !
Posted by: Titiksha on April 17, 2005 4:40 AM | Permalink to CommentDenise, i think when you uploaded the photos, you provided tags 'grape' and 'tree'. While searching you searched with double quotes "grape tree". When searching with double quotes Flickr appends the two tags and searches as one.So had you provided "grape tree" as one of your tags in your photos (notice the double quotes), the search would have returned results.
Posted by: Titiksha on April 17, 2005 6:14 PM | Permalink to CommentI agree with Denise about Flickr. After looking at ofoto.com, Flickr has more appeal, in that you can build a network of friends and browse each other's pictures.
Posted by: mike t on April 17, 2005 7:49 PM | Permalink to CommentI tried searching for combination quote like Titiksha suggestion. It works excellent. Most of my photos return with the keyword I used. For an example, I want to see my two dogs exercise photos. I use search for keyword "Zico Lucky exercises". It returns all of pictures I look for. Surely, Flickr is better than other traditions photos services like Ofoto or Yahoo.
Posted by: Jason Nguyen on April 17, 2005 11:33 PM | Permalink to CommentTitiksha - I did tag my photo with "Grape Tree" not 'grape' and 'tree' as you had suggested. I specifically did this because of the controversy over the MLK picture (see my post on this weeks readings). The guy used "MLK" and "Park" instead of "MLK Park".
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