Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images. Here are just a sampling of a few …
- Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
- Montagr – create a photo mosaic from photos found on Flickr.
Discovery Exercise:
Your discovery exercise for this “thing” is to:
- Explore some of the available Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools.
- Create a blog post about one that intrigues you.
Personally one of my very favorite tools is FD Toys’ Trading Card Maker. And there’s a ton of librarians out there that have created their own Librarian Trading Card. And if you're up to the challenge while you’re at it, why not create a trading card of your own. :)
* Mashup Note: Wikipedia offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a map). In this example, you get Mappr (http://mappr.com).
PS: Learning 2.0 image created by Spell with Flickr.
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Note that to look at and use some of these 'mashup' sites -- Flickr Color Pickr for example -- you will need to load them using Explorer. Some of them will not load properly using Firefox (the way it is presently configured on some PC's).
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