I learned about Flickr while reading the Globe and Mail online tonight. Apparently Flickr is a web service that allows users to post, organize and share photos by making storing the digital images in a database and using the service to move the information back and forth quickly. This is supposedly being hailed by the blogger community as the next step in the internet, but I remain unconvinced. This is partly because when I tried to go to Flickr the address wasn't found. However, Google does have it listed at that address. So where is Flickr? Anyways, definitely something to mull over - there have got to be a million applications/processes that can be redone to take advantage of this technology now that it is maturing... need to think...
On a seperate topic, I was attempting to find a new icon for MSN Messenger the other night on deviantART, specifically trying to find pictures depicting the heoric socialist workers (long story, but I find this particular style of art interesting, in part because it is so overdone, but also the just the how the various elements are shown). I can find many pictures of Che Guevera, the Hammer & Sickle, and other socialist designs (or conversly, fascist pictures, anti & pro-American, etc.) on the website, but almost none of the type I was looking for. I was rather surprised that with such a plethora of socialist icons, that the heoric socialist worker pictures were not to be found. An oddity on the net where almost anything can be found!
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)