John Naughton on Flickr

From his column in Sunday’s Observer:

Flickr’s designers also displayed a shrewd grasp of the essence of Web 2.0 thinking – namely that the big rewards come from making it easy for other developers to hook into your stuff. So they were quick to publish the application programming interface (API), the technical details other programmers needed to link into Flickr’s databases. This then made it easy for bloggers and users of social networking sites to create links to their Flickr ‘photostreams’. The results are clear for all to see. On 12 November last year, Flickr images passed the 2 billion mark. At present, between three and five million photographs are uploaded to the service every day…

Face in the Stone

Face in the Stone

Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week – it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took – you can find them all here.

I’m not much of a photographer and just use a simple point-and-click Sony, but when the scenery is as good as this, it’s hard to go wrong!