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20 Jahre Flickr

Speaking of Stewart Butterfield: Flickr ist gestern 20 Jahre alt geworden.

Feb 10, 2004: Flickr is launched
Founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr was released to the public at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego as a tool for sharing photos. Originally engineered as part of a multiplayer online game, one aspect of the project took on a life of its own, and Flickr was born. During an era when digital cameras were fairly common, phone cameras were just a grainy novelty, and the blogosphere ruled the internet, Flickr was an instant hit.

2005 folgte schon der Kauf durch Yahoo, gefolgt von Jahren der schwindenden Bedeutung und 2018 dem Kauf durch SmugMug.

Recycling von meinem Kommentar bei Michael, wo ich auch von diesem Jubiläum erfuhr: Flickr war toll und wegweisend damals (ich war sogar Gründer der zwischenzeitlich recht großen Germany-Gruppe und – gerade in meinen E-Mails nachgeguckt – von 2005 bis 2009 hatte ich sogar einen zahlungspflichtigen Pro-Account), mittlerweile verbinde ich damit nur noch die nervigen „Your account is in violation of our free account limits“-Mails (kann mich aus Nostalgie­gründen, aber auch nicht zum löschen des Accounts durchringen).

Screenshot der flickr Free-Account-Limit E-Mail

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20 Years of Significant Moments in Flickr’s Development

The celebration of Flickr’s 20th birthday begins today! To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments…

Threads startet am 14.12. in der EU

Meta hasn’t made an official announcement yet, instead opting to sneakily update the Threads website with an untitled countdown timer […] with just under six days remaining on the clock. 

Finally. Ich war im Juli sehr angetan von Metas Twitter-Version. Ihr könnt mir unter @eay auf Threads folgen.

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Threads is counting down to an EU launch next week

December 14th to be exact, according to the countdown timer.

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

From Meta’s engineering blog. At least they continue to talk explicitly about ActivityPub and the Fediverse. However, no mention of the EU launch.

Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol.

My ultimate hope for Threads is that it becomes the zeitgeist of the internet.

(via Matt)

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Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very ke…

Internet Artifacts

Neues, sehr schönes Projekt von Neal Agarwal: Ein Online-Museum für altertümliche Netzartefakte, die allesamt – ”You may touch the artifacts“ – direkt besurft werden können, wie hier z.B. Justin Halls Website von 1994.

In meinem Hochschulseminar „Web-Technologien“ zeige ich den Studierenden bereits einige der hier präsentieren Stücke, andere kannte ich sogar selbst noch nicht. Von daher: tolle Auswahl, ich werde mich für’s nächste Semester nochmal hier inspirieren lassen.

Podcast: The poster’s guide to the internet of the future

The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.

David Pierce im Vergecast im Gespräch mit Matt Mullenweg, Cory Doctorow und Manton Reese über alternative Methoden des Content-Postings, namentlich POSSE („Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere“) und PESOS („Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site“).

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The poster’s guide to the internet of the future

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

“Introducing the new Kottke.org comments”

Jason Kottke has reactivated comments at his site – but for paying members only.

So why comments? And why now? Blog comments have been long since left for dead, a victim of spam, social media, toxicity, and neglect. But there are still plenty of sites out there with thriving communities.

The timing feels right. Twitter has imploded and social sites/services like Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon are jockeying to replace it (for various definitions of „replace“).

Great move & timing. Bring back the Good Ol‘ Web!