Your Home Page: Drop-kick FrontPage, Get Flickr

If you’re a small business, there’s no doubt you need a web presence. But why mess around with novice tools like FrontPage, only to create an amateurish-looking home page? Here’s an interesting idea from Jung von Matt - A swedish advertising designer. [update - Jung von Matt is a full ad [...]

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Hey Flickr user: You’re the next spokesmodel for Gas-X Extra-Strength!

So a gazzzillion people have their pictures on Flickr, right… sure they’re public - but most of us wouldn’t worry becoming a “spokesmodel” for Virgin Mobile without our consent. That’s what happened to Texas teen Alison Chang. Under the auspices of Creative Commons licensing, Virgin Australian used her image in a [...]

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Time-dork T-shirt usability

For 45 Euros, you too can proudly display the current time for everyone to see… why??? not really sure. Especially that you’ll be stretching your neck out to see the time yourself (upside down!). We’re also not sure what the usability of this clock is - but you REALLY DON’T want [...]

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Have your iCake and eat it too

There seems to be a whiff of competitive cake-making on Flickr… who can make the best iphone cake?? So far DebbieDoesCakes has the best entry! There are a lot more pictures of Blackberry cakes - but then they’re MADE from blackberries…

It also appears that iphone cakes are much harder [...]

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Pictogame: Upgrading the “d’ya wanna see my 567 vacation pictures” syndrome

Sure Flickr is great for sharing your pictures with people who actually care. But…really…how many really care? Pictogame kicks it up a notch! It has one of the best 2.0 user interfaces I’ve ever seen. Pick a game template: something like a puzzle or tetris-like game… Then personalize it with [...]

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Zooomr: Extra O, missing E, Nutty VC

Zooomr is one a Flickr’s biggest competitors. Its upcoming release should make it a favourite among “serious” photographers by allowing users to sell their images directly from the site.
But despite being “cash-flow positive”, all is not rosy for Zooomr. According to c|net, its VC pulled out their investment when it found out about the cash [...]

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Flickr’s Sweet Maple Delicious UX

Flickr impresses me a great deal with its elegant user experience for navigating and exploring photo content. As pictured below, with the creation of sets and collections visitors to your Flickr site can surf through your content effortlessly.

You hardly notice the interface as you click to see thumbnails of the sets and navigate by [...]

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