Comments on: Flickrvision

Flickrvision

psmealey — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:36:42 -0800

Flickervision (beta). Also, Twittervision.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:40:31 -0800

wow.

By: vellocet

vellocet — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:43:14 -0800

damn. i'm going to end up sitting here all day in my bathrobe.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:43:19 -0800

They should limit it to cameraphone uploads.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:43:24 -0800

I got to say, flickrvision weirds me out far less than twittervision does.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:48:08 -0800

...although you have to geocode the photos, so I guess cameraphones won't have that until you get back to your computer anyway.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:54:44 -0800

smackfu: "...although you have to geocode the photos, so I guess cameraphones won't have that until you get back to your computer anyway." ZoneTag tags your photos with their location, which it knows based on the cell tower it's connecting to. Not perfect, but frequently close enough.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:55:45 -0800

Flickrvision is very cool, thanks! Twittervision, not so much.

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:58:12 -0800

Is there a way of slowing these down? The Flickr one is awesome.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:01:37 -0800

looks like I'm going to mark nearly each and every post as my favourite. reminds me of the story of the map at scale 1:1 thanks anyway for another great find

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:04:06 -0800

A very cool link (the first one - I'm not too sure about twitter)

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:12:53 -0800

Flickrvision is cool - I would use it as a screensaver at work if I knew whether it was worksafe.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:15:17 -0800

Let me be the first dissenter... Its sort of cool until you realize these are photos that are being uploaded now vs. taken now. So despite all that panning, its not really real-time. And if its not real-time why not use Flickr Maps, which lets you filter by date taken, date uploaded, tags, groups or even a particular person?

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:18:40 -0800

twittervision previously.

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:23:22 -0800

And if you want a mappy version of geotagged blogs, try The World As A Blog. This is a few years old, though. I don't get the appeal of Twittervision, because it requires shoehorning metadata into places it's not designed to go.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:28:21 -0800

Its sort of cool until you realize these are photos that are being uploaded now vs. taken now. I don't see it that way. I that idea that someone at a given moment has chosen a particular photo, and decided (for whatever reason) to post to Flickr. It's more interesting, to me, to think of it as a window in mindsets the world over than it is a real time view into actions.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:40:22 -0800

Web 2.0: It requires shoehorning metadata into places it's not designed to go.

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:05:33 -0800

neat

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:16:55 -0800

So, all the creator of this site needs to do is grab the realtime cameraphone feeds instead of all of flickr?

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:26:03 -0800

and add timing controls and a STOP button. and Sat' imagery instead of just maps. But I like this a lot.

By: lodev

lodev — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:28:41 -0800

If you want even more semi-realtime happenings from all over the world (from Twitter), linked together with semi related pictures and videos and presented in a fantastically hypnotical way, check out Flussgeist/L'attente/The waiting.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:30:36 -0800

Never has so much accomplished so little.

By: chlorus

chlorus — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:09:47 -0800

MetaFilter: i'm going to end up sitting here all day in my bathrobe.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:34:39 -0800

MetaFilter: Why fuck a stranger when you can fuck a friend.

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:47:01 -0800

I like the idea behind both of these sites. But I enjoy We Feel Fine a bit more (even though it's limited to Flickr photos and blogs that make reference to the way a person feels). The murmurs and montage sections offer a more fluid way of viewing the relevant material. That's a site I could stare at for hours.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:07:31 -0800

I still don't get twitter. It's like an RSS feed of your life. But who cares?

By: Quiplash

Quiplash — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:59:35 -0800

Love the flickrvision.

By: Saellys

Saellys — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:34 -0800

Whoa. I could stare at twittervision all day long.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:00:44 -0800

Heh, Flickrvision is fun...but I still don't understand this Twitter thing. People actually CARE about what strangers are doing at this very moment?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:03:34 -0800

I still don't understand this Twitter thing. People actually CARE about what strangers are doing at this very moment? I'm guessing it really worked well at SxSW where you had multiple participants and multiple venues where events were happening simultaneously. Short of something very similar to that, I'm not sure I understand what other applications it might be used for.

By: Poagao

Poagao — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:53:12 -0800

Hmm, it seems they've forgotten Taiwan exists. Oops.

By: dlisbona

dlisbona — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:44:11 -0800

I can't get how Flickvision is working......when I clicked on several of the Flickrvision displayed pix to see the original photopage on Flickr, I don't see location information. Some of the posters have other geotagged photos, some don't have any geotagged photos. I'm also seeing pix on Flickrvision which make me doubt the alleged geotagging (palm trees in Belgium, amazing seafront scenes in Minsk, Far Eastern waterfront scenes in London). Can someone tell me what's going on? David

By: dlisbona

dlisbona — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:11:06 -0800

More anomalies after spending some more time looking at Flickrvision: Photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/visuellegedanken/ none of which seem to be geotagged There was one photo of the Eiffel Tower from Milwaukee and another from Omaha Arc de Triomphe in Germany? An unusually large number of photos from Minsk, Belarus including dramatic seashores, many signs in English Many photos from Taiwan Very many photos from the same people A photo of black barefoot children (who look very African to me) from Aachen, Germany Many photos which don't make sense to be to be geotagged i.e. their content is totally location insensitive e.g. a picture of a gun Any explanations?

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:56:05 -0800

yes, it's call tourism. people leave their hometowns in Milwaukee, Aachen and go to other places to take photos :)

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:03:46 -0800

And then they label them as being from Milwaukee?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:08:57 -0800

Aha, it's using the user's profile location. Kind of weird.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:45:40 -0800

PonyRequest for MetaTwitter, or, yes, MeTwit: 6.50 AM: Leave for internetless job. 11.00 AM: Return home, check favorites, notice someone unfavorited something 11.28 AM: Can't find what was unfavorited, their loss anyhow. 11.30 AM: Checking MyComments, decide it's probably best not to respond after making provocative MeTa comment late last night. 11.32 AM: Checking the Blue... hey, is that a double? Better make a comment implying it is, without actually checking. 11.35 AM: Good post... three days ago on BoingBoing! 11.42 AM: Checking AskMe... dump him, dump her, dump them, reinstall your drivers, quit and dump him, declaw her, buy a Mac, reinstall her claws, duh, The Wind in the Willows, yes, no, that guy so owes me a checkmark from his last question, so fuck him. 12.00 PM: Make clever response to AskMe, F5ing to see how many favorites I get. 12.01 PM: Railing about goddam Jessatex's itchy trigger finger to cat. Cat unsympathetic. 12.34 PM: Check blogroll, leave comment on languagehat's blog, just to look smart. 12.36 PM: Noticed typo in comment left on languagehat's blog, delete it from blogroll. 12.54 PM: Eating lunch. 13.02 PM: F5ing MyComments. 16.45 PM: Shit, late for other internetless job, need to remember to buy new F5 key. 22.05 PM: Home again! Hug SO, checking favorites... what the hell?!? 22.07 PM: Wondering why someone listed me as a contact, tempted to send e-mail asking why. 22.10 PM: Stalking bardic. 22.14 PM: Spending quality time with SO. 22.17 PM: Stalking bardic. 22.19 PM: Dammit honey, it's quality, not quantity - oh, look what you made me type, thanks a lot! 22.26 PM: Folding out fouton, snuggling up to the warmth of the laptop. 22.38 PM: Complain about deleted AskMe response in completely unrelated MeTa. 22.47 PM: Making snarky response to stupid comment. 22.48 PM: Realize comment wasn't stupid, I just misunderstood. 22.49 PM: MeTaFight. 22.52 PM: Christ, what an asshole.

By: dlisbona

dlisbona — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:37:40 -0800

I received a clarification yesterday from David Troy (the developer of FlickrVision) We use geotagging data from the actual photos where it is available, and then rely on the user's profile location in cases where it is not. Because less than 1% of photos are geotagged, we rely on user profile location heavily. This explains the pictures of the Eiffel Tower from Milwaukee and Omaha.......and all the other discrepancies. The idea of FlickrVision is great and I'm sure that David Troy can find a way to show which photos are geolocated and which merely indicate the Flickr member's home location.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:57:22 -0800

And then they label them as being from Milwaukee? There's the slight chance that it could be from our Bastille Days celebration, but that happened/happens in July, so someone would have to be really far behind or ahead in updating their photos.