#6 More Flickr fun

Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own 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...

*Mappr -allows you to take Flickr images and paste them on a map

*Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific colour

*Montagr - create a photo mosaic from photos found on Flickr

Discover more mashups, web apps, and Flickr tools

Discovery Exercise:

Your discovery exercise for this "thing" is to:

1. Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools that are out there.

2. Create a blog post about one that intrigues you.

One of the fun tools is FD Toys' Trading Card Maker. And there's a ton of libraries out there that have created their own Librarian Trading Card.

So have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps. 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 on explaining 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/).

Here is another example - you can spell any word in images by Spell with Flickr: