Fn with Flickr

Flickr (actually www.flickr.com) is a very cool little Web application. It's a photo site where you can upload your own pictures, share them with other flickr community members, rate them, etc... But that in and of iteslf wouldn't be interesting enough for Mike's Blog! Flickr has some other aspects, though, that gives it a high geek score.

Flickr has a lot of the same appeal that Apple's iPhoto does... similar look, and the ability to easily use albums to organize your pictures. There is a Flickr blog (hooray!). In addition to the ability to upload pictures manually to the Web site, Flickr lets you use a very nice little uploader (or "uploadr", in Flicker speak) as well as letting you email photos to your account...

Flickr has a "badge" feature, in which it can generate a little bit of HTML code that links to a javascript application that pulls a random picture from my flickr account...Here, I put some of this code on this page. Why didn't I just put it here, on my blog? Apparently blogger won't let me do that directly.

Finally, Flicker has the ability to produce RSS feeds, meaning that you can tell your news aggregator (you do have a news aggregator, right?) to watch flicker, say, for photos of cats, and then every time someone posts one, you see it in your aggregator window. Well, you might not want to do THAT, but you get the idea...

Give it a try. It's free. How much trouble could you get into following advice like that?