Results for Flickr

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 5th, 2007:

• Gibson Robot Guitar – The guitar is tuned by tiny servo motors that tune all strings in no more than five seconds.

Gibson Robot Guitar

• CASH Music: Kristin Hersh – CASH will soon be open to any and all independent artists who want a set of tools to offer their music directly to their audience for collaboration as well as financial support.
• Edit your photos on Flickr! – Flickr partners up with Picnik for some nice online photo editing tools.
• Mike Libby – Insect Lab – Artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components.
• National Geographic International Photography Contest Winners – Winners and runners-up from the 2007 international photo contest.
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard – a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

The Beastie Boys have a Flickr feed where they post pics from the road as they tour with their new album, The Mix-Up, a funky all-instumental disc.

Beastie Boys on stage – Adam (Adrock) and Mike D

Some great pics. Didn’t know Mike D went all stylish with his hair!

More info on The Mix-Up here.

Link via Boing Boing

Flickr was originally intended to be Flicker but the domain name for the website was already taken.

”We thought about some alternatives and then decided to just drop the e,” said Stewart Butterfield, Flickr’s chief executive. ”It’s a little more distinctive than a generic name.”

I guess Flickr’s popularity must’ve inspired other web 2.0 startups to omit vowels from their brand names.

• Socializr – Share events with your friends
• Steekr – Your secured online space
• Skrbl – Easy to share online whiteboard
• Filedropr – The place to drop your files
• Delivr – Create free photo greeting cards
• Frappr – The most social maps on the Web
• Stagr – Design your own clothes
• Zooomr – Universally the best way to share, search, store and sort your photos online
• Blogr – Your space for photos, videos, podcasts and your blog
• Talkr – Letting blogs speak for themselves
• Coastr – The social guide to beer
• Flagr – Bookmark the Real World
• Suprglu – Piecing your web together
• Calcr – Online calculator
• Phixr – Online Photo Editor
• Gabbr – A social news community
• Nabbr – The #1 Video Widget
• FeedBlendr – blending RSS, Atom and RDF feeds into a single river of news!
• Grazr – Make any website better

Some of these sites are quite new so it doesn’t look like this thing is going out of fashion any time soon…