Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third-party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images. Here are just a sampling of a few…
- Mappr – allows you to take Flickr images and paste them on a map.
- Flickr Color Pickr – lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
- Montagr – create a photo mosaic from photos found on Flickr.
Discover more mashups, web apps, and Flickr tools.
Discovery Exercise:
Your Discovery Exercise for this “Thing” is to:
- Explore some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd-party tools that are out there.
- Create a blog post about one that intrigues you. If you want to get really fancy and you either already have a Flickr account, or if you created one in the Discovery Exercise for Thing #5, use the tool and include a link to it in your post, or upload it for everyone to see! (For example, here is a link to a Flickr badge I created back in 2006.)
One fun tool is FD Toys’ Trading Card Maker. And there’s a ton of librarians out there that have created their own Librarian Trading Cards.
So go have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps! And if you’re up to the challenge while you’re at it, why not create a trading card of your own? 
* Mashup Note: Wikipedia offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically, they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a map). In this example, you get Mappr (http://mappr.com).
PS: Learn & Play @CML image created by Spell with Flickr!
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The link to “spell with Flickr” doesn’t work. Is there another way to access this fun thing? I poked around on google by searching for “spell with flickr” but was unsuccessful.
Hi, FRAGGLEREADER!
The link works for me, so I’m not sure what’s going on with it. I will try it when I get home to see if maybe there is something wrong. However, you might try entering the URL directly into your browser: http://metaatem.net/words/
I hope this helps! Let me know if it’s still not working, because it really is a fun application!
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the spell with flickr didn’t work for me, either. I’m on a staff pc. I tried the actual url in browser, and that didn’t work either.
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It was a site to create faux badges, but I used it to create a help wanted poster- with the only photo I had stored on my desktop.