Flickr Photo Fun
April 27, 2007 on 8:19 am | In Features |
Have you ever seen the “A Day in the Life of…” photo book series? Photographers from around the world have 24 hours to shoot pictures of a certain theme, and the best photos are put in the final book. In my past work life, I worked on the America 24/7 book project which invited amateur photographers to participate.
Flickr, a global photo sharing community owned by Yahoo!, recently announced a similar event on their blog called “24 hours of Flickr”:
- “To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in “24 Hours of Flickr” – a day-long global photo project. On May 5, 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. The group’s photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer and in a companion book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group (more about this soon!).”
To participate, join the 24 Hours of Flickr group to get ready for the big day.
So, you may be asking, “What does this have to do with Yahoo! Messenger?” Aside from this being a great event that I wanted to make sure Messenger users knew about, it also gives me a chance to tell you about the Flickr plug-in.
Flickengr is a great little plug-in that shows you the latest photos that your Messenger friends have posted on Flickr. And if you have additional contacts that you’ve added through Flickr, their photos will rotate in as well. I’ve found it’s a great way to find out more about my friends (who knew my uncle had tried windsurfing??), plus the constant stream of new photos makes my desktop more interesting. The Flickengr plug-in and many others are available for the Windows version of Yahoo! Messenger (8.1).
If you participate in the 24 Hours of Flickr event on May 5, let us know by posting a link to your photos in a comment. Happy snapping!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
is this all for the new Yahoo! 8.5 or 9.0 or is it for this one we got now 8.1?
Comment by david — April 27, 2007 #
yes, i would like to know the answer to that question too. by the way, when will the new yahoo 9.0 be released?
Comment by irene — April 27, 2007 #
Hi David - This is for the current version of Yahoo! Messenger, 8.1. Sorry if that wasn’t clear - I’ll add a note to the post.
You can check out more plug-ins for 8.1 at http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger.
Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — April 27, 2007 #
[…] Is it wrong to make today’s post a blatant rebroadcast of the cool thing from another Yahoo! blog that was posted about just this morning? If it is, I don’t want to be right. Because then I’ll have to come up with something else to write about. Thanks, Sarah! […]
Pingback by Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » On the Subject of Gallery Stuff… — April 27, 2007 #
I still prefer the ease of using Photobucket. Until I see stability in messenger, and the spam filters are strengthened in Yahoo Mail, I refuse to use another service.
The count-down to May 14th, 2007 has started.
Comment by gothicmemberyoda — April 28, 2007 #
Any chance of seeing a similar plugin for yahoo photos? I`ve got very few friends who use flickr..but a great many who use yahoo photos.
Comment by Thom — April 28, 2007 #
Hi Thom,
I don’t know of any concrete plans for a Yahoo! Photos plug-in, but it is a development platform that anyone can use to create plug-ins. So if you or someone you know is a developer, they can create it and make it available for others to use. You can find out more about the plug-in software development kit at:
http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/
Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — April 28, 2007 #
Flickr is blocked in the U.A.E., Yahoo! Photos isn’t.
Comment by Muzammil — April 29, 2007 #
Hi Sarah, personally i’m having trouble with Vista and i’m thinking about installing XP again in the next few days (maybe at the end of the week). Do you think i might have the change to try the new YM for Vista before I do that? thanks
Comment by irene — April 30, 2007 #
Hi Irene - No, the new Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista won’t be out in the next couple of weeks. But I’ll keep everyone posted with news when I have it! Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — April 30, 2007 #
for Sarah Bacon
when will Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista be comeing out i been waiting for a long time will be out some time in may? if so can i have a date for it so i would no when in may or june and so on
Comment by david — April 30, 2007 #
Hello,
As I have told earlier, the best feature I like about Yahoo! messenger is the Address Book.
Now, here is a small suggestion:
Right click on a name on your yahoo messenger list…click on Contact details…and you the see the details of contact:
Now, click on ADDITIONAL TAB…
You will see Messenger IDs for the LCS and also for IBM lotus suite.
Now…since Reuters messaging is supported by Yahoo! messenger there should be a place for that too. I suggest you to give an option to add Reuters ID…
The field for Reuters ID should be below and in the middle of LCS and IBM Lotus suite.
So let’s hope you will make this improvement at the earliest.
Rock on Yahoo address book on Yahoo messenger.
Comment by user — April 30, 2007 #
Amid all the talks of Microsoft taking over Yahoo! and/or AOL+Yahoo! parternship/merger/takeover…
I would like to see compatibility between Google talk and Yahoo! messenger. Google talk is built on open platform and there should be no reason why Yahoo! shouldn’t allow us to message Google.
Currently Yahoo! is losing customers because some people have to use Google talk to talk to their Google talk friends.
If these people are given the option to message their G talk friends from Yahoo…then Yahoo! would retain these customers.
So send me €€€€€€€€€ for my valuable advice and implement the same.
Comment by user — April 30, 2007 #
Hi Irene - No, the new Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista won’t be out in the next couple of weeks. But I’ll keep everyone posted with news when I have it! Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
thanks so do you mean like 2 week 3 week what are we looking at her? be for june 1st?
Comment by david — April 30, 2007 #
So what is the status of the Mac messenger?
Alex
Comment by Alex Rodriguez — April 30, 2007 #
May 14th, is the day that Yahoo Chat should work flawlessly…starting the countdown: 15 DAYS
Comment by gothicmemberyoda — April 30, 2007 #
yay for the countdown,so that means all the booters,laggers.and other programs should be patch to yay,14 more days to go
Comment by i hate room lockers — April 30, 2007 #
its a sarcastic countdown >:)
Comment by gothicmemberyoda — May 1, 2007 #
>:-)>
Comment by gothicmemberyoda — May 1, 2007 #