Welcome to SolamenteNiel!
I know...I know...in the world of social networking like twitter, blogs just aren't cool anymore, right? Well every once and a while I want to share something that exceeds 144 characters, so I created SolamenteNiel, my blog. While I'm at it, I'm also going old school with a cheesy picture of myself on my blog. In this picture I'm pertending to be an IndyCar driver.
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It's amazing what you'll find on flickr. I found this minifig on flickr. Apparently there are legos fans that recreate their favorite groups using legos.
Pretty clever!!
Here's a fun project that is being done with flickr. The goal of the World Clock Project is to have a photo for every minute of every hour of every day. When you go to the World Clock Project website, the current time will be highlighted by a photo from a clock somewhere in the world. I wish there was a way to embed this project on a website as a badge.
I found this new service yesterday called Animoto. It lets you create music videos using your pictures and your own music selection. I gave it a try by pointing it to one of my flickr sets ("Trip to San Diego") on my flickr account and picking one of Indie Rock music selections. It created a little 30 second video. Here it is:
While flickr has been around for a while, I never really understood or appreciated the benefits of flickr. However due to my growing interest in Indy Car Racing, I explored flickr and found it to be a great place to find racing photos that were posted by flickr members. As I explored flickr some more, I decided to use flickr to share photos with family and friends. Using flickr's upload tools, it was really easy to upload large sets of photos and subsequently label, tag and describe the photos. I soon outgrew the free flickr services, so I decided to start an annual subscription to flickr.
My favorite thing about flickr is the extensive flickr api and rss feed options. It makes it very easy to integrate flickr content with other websites.....as I've done with this blog. I decided to add a photo section (tab) where I publish some selected flickr photo sets. I have also integrated flickr with the tag functionality of this blog. As you select a tag (either from a post or the "Tags" sidebar section), you will see among other things (a list of my blog posts and my del.icio.us links for the selected tag) a flickr slideshow of all my public images that have been tagged with the selected tag.
As you're perusing the photos of other flickr members, you can tag the photos you like as favorites. Here's a slideshow of all the photos I've tagged as favorites. As I add or remove photos from my favorites, this slideshow will automatically update.
