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Just found this cool Flickriver video tutorial: Thanks, gfurry! Tags: flickriver

Surely, you’ve heard about Google’s new OpenSocial platform. I believe this is indeed a very significant step forward, especially taking into account the launch partners who are already on board. Naturally, a lot of comparisons between OpenSocial and Facebook Platform have been made, mostly having to do with the fact that Facebook Platform is closed […]

Donald Knuth once said that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”. Programmers often waste too much time optimizing their products for situations which will never actually happen in real life. The same is definitely true for web development – do you really need that sophisticated caching system if your site is being visited […]

Ami Ben Basat – a journalist, a writer and a friend has started an amazing project – he sent his miniature Sony T7 camera on a photo-journey. Each week, this jewel of a camera spends a week with one photographer documenting his or her life and afterwards it’s passed on to the next photographer in […]

My site was in a desperate need of an update. Basically, I had quite a lot of stuff laying around the site, without any consistent navigation to lead to it. So, I added a new top navigation toolbar to every page on the site with links and menus that directly lead to almost any piece […]

I love Flickr. I use it almost daily – I post my own photographs and view photos my friends are posting. I search Flickr for specific locations, events, objects or people. Sometimes, I explore Flickr and discover amazing pictures and great photographers. I think Flickr has great user interface, but after using it for a […]

I’m an RSS junkie. I go over nearly 200 feeds every day – news, industry updates, my friends’ blogs, flickr photos and so on. That’s why my RSS reader has become the second most important application for me, after the browser. The problem I used SharpReader and RSS Bandit and encountered very similar problem with […]

Did you ever want to comment on some great Blog post you found only to discover that the post is a bit old and the author has already closed the comments – so no new ones can be posted? I often do and I find this issue rather frustrating… The reason for closing comments is […]

I read a blog post by Jeff Pulver about using Flickr for connecting with new people after attending an event together. Jeff had a simple and elegant suggestion – we need a tool that given a conference or an event tag will show me all the people who posted photos on that event and who […]

After being in private beta for a while, we finally launched FoxyTunes Planet – check it out! I’m really excited to see all the great feedback we are getting from the community – on people’s blogs, in their comments, forum posts and emails to us. Also, the Planet has already been reviewed by popular blogs […]

I missed the Future of Web Apps conference this year – looks like it was a great event. The good news is that the conference presentations are now available online – along with mp3 files of each presentation. You can read and hear some great presentations by Mike Arrington (Techcrunch), Matthew Ogle, Anil Bawa Cavia […]