This was the hardest thing for me so far. I could easily make a map on Google and save it. I could upload a picture to Flickr.com. But putting the 2 together was agonizing for me. P. had to help me - twice. I made 2 maps: one for the library and 1 for my house (the one for the house is private - email me if you want me to put you on the list of people who can access it). I had to make sure I at least got the concept.
As for use in LibraryLand: well, it is nice that people could see what the lbrary looks like if they use google maps to find it.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thing #2 (again), Flickr Mashups
Well, I tried four Flickr mashups this week.
It involved first finding out what a mashup is. In this case, what a mashup is is a program that takes Flickr and does something else with the pictures and tags. I look at it as like an overhead with a transparency on the bottom called Flickr and one lying over it which is the mashup. It creates something new.
1) Retrievr: What you do here is draw a picture (or supply the website with a picture, which I didn't do) and Retrievr tries to find pictures to match what you drew. I think this is more fun that useful. I got lots of pictures with the color scheme that I drew in. I got lots of pretty results. But I didn't get lots of pertinent results. You also can't draw fine lines which I think is a drawback.
2) Spell with Flickr: I didn't spend too much time with this one. You enter a word and the mashup takes each letter and inserts a picture of the letter from Flickr. Fun for kidnappers, I call it.
3) Tagnautica: You enter a word/tag, and the program creates a circle of tags and pictures related to your tag. So "Hello Kitty" resulted in related tags like pink and toy and a bunch more. It was mesmerizing. I had so much fun doing this until I found out you can't click on the resulting tags and find more pictures with that tag.
4) Captionr!: I thought this one would be so much fun and I was disappointed. The pictures I chose always got turned sideways on the screen even though they were right side up in Flickr. Then when I tried to put in the caption, I couldn't turn the bubble to orient the same way as the picture. I just couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.
It involved first finding out what a mashup is. In this case, what a mashup is is a program that takes Flickr and does something else with the pictures and tags. I look at it as like an overhead with a transparency on the bottom called Flickr and one lying over it which is the mashup. It creates something new.
1) Retrievr: What you do here is draw a picture (or supply the website with a picture, which I didn't do) and Retrievr tries to find pictures to match what you drew. I think this is more fun that useful. I got lots of pictures with the color scheme that I drew in. I got lots of pretty results. But I didn't get lots of pertinent results. You also can't draw fine lines which I think is a drawback.
2) Spell with Flickr: I didn't spend too much time with this one. You enter a word and the mashup takes each letter and inserts a picture of the letter from Flickr. Fun for kidnappers, I call it.
3) Tagnautica: You enter a word/tag, and the program creates a circle of tags and pictures related to your tag. So "Hello Kitty" resulted in related tags like pink and toy and a bunch more. It was mesmerizing. I had so much fun doing this until I found out you can't click on the resulting tags and find more pictures with that tag.
4) Captionr!: I thought this one would be so much fun and I was disappointed. The pictures I chose always got turned sideways on the screen even though they were right side up in Flickr. Then when I tried to put in the caption, I couldn't turn the bubble to orient the same way as the picture. I just couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thing #2 Flickr
I signed up for a Flickr account today and joined some groups. Signing up was way easy. So was joining the groups. (They have groups for everything!) I think the purpose is so I can post to the discussions and so I can post pictures to the group.
I think I will borrow my husband's digital camera and take some pictures and upload them. Just to see what it's like.
What I really enjoyed was looking at the tags and exploring pictures people took that way.
Next I need to look at mashups. I did a google search to find out what are mashups and I found a site which lists the 10 best Flickr mashups. What it looks like from the article is that programmers create some sort of toy or useful program for Flickr.
I think I will borrow my husband's digital camera and take some pictures and upload them. Just to see what it's like.
What I really enjoyed was looking at the tags and exploring pictures people took that way.
Next I need to look at mashups. I did a google search to find out what are mashups and I found a site which lists the 10 best Flickr mashups. What it looks like from the article is that programmers create some sort of toy or useful program for Flickr.
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