Archive for the 'flickr' Category

29
Nov

Testing Flickr’s ‘Blog This’ feature


Waking up

Originally uploaded by lucapost

A quick snap I took from the kitchen window between waking up and preparing coffe; its getting views but not enough to make it into Explore/interestingness …speaking of which , here’s the global situation of my account (sad!).

I wish the tools also exported the picture tags either as an extra info-box or as the post own tags…

07
Nov

[lang_en]Web Sites as Graphs[/lang_en][lang_it]Siti come Grafi[/lang_it]

Graph of INGV Bologna site[lang_en]Web sites as graphs: enter a URL and watch the DOM unfold in real time, simulating a set of particles reaching a minimum-energy equilibrium state.Found this randomly through Flickr; visually fascinating!Start from the HTML root element (black dot) and follow through your DIVs (green dots) hierarchy, then images and links (violet and blue respectively) etc.It can be easily extended into a semantic-structure analyzer, a validation tool; add mouse-over events showing nodes’ content and you have the coolest User Interface for any DOM-inspector Firefox extension (Firebug->Inspect included).The code is there, anyone …?[/lang_en][lang_it]Siti come grafi: inserisci una URL e guarda il DOM dispiegarsi in tempo reale, simulando un insieme di particelle che raggiunge il suo stato di equilibrio.Trovato per caso su Flickr: visivamente affascinante!Partendo dall’elemento HTML (punto nero) è semplice riconoscere la struttura gerarchica dei DIV (verdi) e al loro interno immagini link etc.Potrebbe essere esteso facilmente in uno strumento per l’analisi della struttura semantica, in un validatore, o integrato come elemento di interfaccia di una qualsiasi estensione per Firefox che tratti col DOM.Il codice sorgente è disponibile …..qualcuno ha tempo e voglia ?!?[/lang_it]

08
Aug

[lang_en]the New .mac photo albums: OBTRUSIVE![/lang_en][lang_it]esporta gli album di iPhoto su .mac; gallerie ajax[lang_it]

[lang_en]Together with the new iMacs Apple presented yesterday iLife 2008, their ‘digital life-style’ software suite for managing photos and movies.
Integration with Apple’s own .mac online services has been enhanced and heavily publicized in Steve’s keynote; exporting pictures from iPhoto and sharing them with friends is a snap; album previews, slideshows and carousel viewing in full web2.0 ajaxified style, making you almost feel like dropping your flickr account and… wait a second: where are tags ?!?! Continue reading ‘[lang_en]the New .mac photo albums: OBTRUSIVE![/lang_en][lang_it]esporta gli album di iPhoto su .mac; gallerie ajax[lang_it]‘