Comments To Go
I was without a cameraphone for a little while, then got a Nokia N80 was too new to run ShoZu, the handy Symbian app which […]
Stewart Butterfield
stoneth’s San Francisco
Tom Stone (stoneth on Flickr), who I had the chance to meet the a Flickr meetup a few weeks ago, takes amazing portraits of people […]
Temporary Storage Glitch
We’ve had a temporary storage failure affecting a sizable chunk of old Flickr photos and are moving about 20 terabytes of photos across a few […]
Reminder to Self: Slow Down on the Caffeine
This goes out to all the Flickr engineers and ops troubleshooting late on a Friday night: Thanks guys :) To do: see more photos from […]
Er … Sorry
UPDATE: Site’s online now and everything is heading back to normal. Previously: A group of us are figuring out the best way to bring the […]
Pride
It’s Gay & Lesbian Pride Month, and pride days and (always photogenic) parades are taking places in cities around the world. Yahoo! has a great […]
Jaw-dropping
Zicatela #2, by konaboy. The previous photo in his stream is equally awesome. Found on the first page of Explore.
Building Scalable Web Sites
Did we really never blog about Building Scalable Web Sites, the book written by Flickr’s lead developer, Cal Henderson and published by O’Reilly last month? […]
Flickr’ing in Tehran
I got an email a few days ago from a Flickr user named Hamed Saber about the first Flickr meetup in Tehran (and, I’m guessing, […]
Unplug it from the switch, then plug it back in again …
We’re experiencing massive internal network problems at the primary Flickr data center. You may notice this with occasional pageviews (or, at times, most pageviews) taking […]
Scheduled maintenance
… and, here’s scheduled downtime #2. This one will be a little longer: it’s 11:30pm on the west coasat of North America right now and […]
Chile Protesta
I am online all the time, subscribe to the New York Times on Sunday and read the Economist, usually cover-to-cover, about every other week, but […]