Reconstructing the World through Flickr Photos
Scientists at the University of North Carolina created 3D models of the world using millions of Creative Commons photos from Flickr. Check out the amazing results of their work.
David A. Shamma
Visualizing Flickr Cities
The Flickr Cities visualization looks at the 49 million geo-tagged photos in the open dataset and gives you a compelling and fun way to navigate and explore several cities.
Digital Heirlooms and Slow Interactions
Researchers built a slow interaction photo device with unpredictable notifications and no user control. The result was lovely.
Photo Engagement Research Videoified!
A few months ago we published some research that looked at how we like to filter our cellphone photos and how that impacts the community engagement. […]
How photo filters affect online engagement
Looking at 7.6 million public Flickr app photos, Flickr and Yahoo Labs researchers found that filtered photos are 21 percent more likely to be viewed on Flickr and 45 percent more likely to be commented on.
Science (and Flickr) powering product: Yahoo Weather
How do you find one million high-quality weather photos on Flickr—one million needles in a haystack of 10 billion photos? Since this is primarily a multimedia research problem, we needed to rely on several methods, which we detail here.