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Wings of Desire
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Did you know…
…that flickr "has the special characteristic of realizing and putting on the web genuine photos, loyal to the idea of photographic art ".

Someone at La Repubblica sure knew that!

I wonder if he has ever gone beyond the flickr homepage though.

I have stumbled upon a new interesting website today: beta.zooomr.com

zooomr is basically another photo sharing service like flickr, picasa, or kodakgallery (there’s plenty of them!).

To be honest, it is suspiciously similar to flickr! It offers almost the same features and it has a quite similar interface. I think they might be using the same frameworks, at least on the javascript side, as some parts of the interface are identical (text editing, notes, tag editing…).

I looked for any connection to flickr or Yahoo, but it seems that this is an independent project, with three developers (leaded by Kristopher Tate) and Wendell Davis III as interim CEO (google his name and you will find out that he is not a newcomer).
zooomr introduces some nice features that are missing (or less useful) in flickr (but the latter has a far better web design IMHO Read more

Jason Famularo has made a nice Google module to display one or a set of Flickr pictures. The problem is that I want to display one of my own images in a random fashion. The Flickr API has a flickr.photos.search method that allows you to retrieve the photos of a specific user. The problem is that you cannot retrieve them in a random order. There are the only parameters that allow you to change the photo order:

min_upload_date

Photos with an upload date greater than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a unix timestamp.

max_upload_date

Photos with an upload date less than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a unix timestamp.

min_taken_date

Photos with an taken date greater than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a mysql datetime.

max_taken_date

Photos with an taken date less than or equal to this value will be returned. The date should be in the form of a mysql datetime.

sort

Deafults to date-posted-desc. The possible values are: date-posted-asc, date-posted-desc, date-taken-asc, date-taken-desc, interestingness-desc, interestingness-asc, and relevance.

This means that I had to find a “hack”
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