FlickrFling
FlickrFling is an open source project for people who wish to explore in an innovative and rather surprising way the different data feeds that form the building blocks of today’s virtual world. By pointing the application, let’s say, to the CNN news feed, you will receive the last news in real time – rendered in pictures. The application will choose for each in-coming word an image from flickr’s database tagged with corresponding keywords. Since the application searches and browses through the whole of flickr’s database, the results can be quite amusing and unpredictable…
Another possible use of the application is to link the words of an incoming feed to a specific personal set of pictures.
Take for example a flash based chat room: a person sends a piece of text to the chat, and the software searches immediately through his personal flickr database attaching the image relevant to the current conversation.
You might be chatting about your brave, beloved dog “Snoopy”, and all along the application will provide a flow of Snoopy’s pictures to the chat room itself.
We plan to release the .FLA flash source code as soon as the application and code will be debugged and presentableJ. Our intention is to provide flash developers with an easy-to-use tool for the creation of far reaching interactions based on real time feeds (we might even be inspired to improve our tagging, who knows…).
FlickrFling was developed by:
Ofer Luft
Yaniv Steiner
Originally developed for IUAV University of Venice, 2006 Telecommunications Course “Designs which create Designs™”, visual and multimedia communication graduate program.
FlickrFling builds on:
Flickr™ API
Macromedia Flash 8 Professional / Actionscript2.0
Kelvin Luck’s Flashr: a Flickr API wrapper for Flash
Inspiration:
Casey Reas
Marcos Weskamp
Jim Bumgardner
Keywords:
Flash, Flickr , RSS , Mass , Top-Projects
January 7th, 2006 at 6:46 am
sounds very very cool*********
can’t wait to try it out!
Cheers!! Billy
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January 7th, 2006 at 9:59 am
[...] flickrfling – the “test it now” link crashed my browser, but sounds nice. “by pointing the application to a news feed, you receive the last news in real time – rendered in pictures.” [via we-make-money-not-art] [...]
January 7th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Hello.
the application is using Flash 8 and PHP both are straight forward standard thing and there is no reason for them to crash your browser or anything like that.
can u be so kind to post (or send) me your system spec’ (cpu, ram etc) as well as ur browser version information.
many thanks.
Y.
January 15th, 2006 at 10:37 am
[...] FlickrFling är ett Flickr-experiment, där bilder från Flickr kopplas till nyckelord från valfria rss-flöden. Du kan även koppla en feed direkt till en vald användares bilder på Flickr, istället för att söka bland allas bilder. Resultaten är minst sagt oberäkneliga, men kan ibland vara ganska lustiga. [...]
February 1st, 2006 at 9:26 am
Which browser works optimally with FlickrFling? Both Firefox and Safari are crashing when I load my own url. Thanks!
April 7th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
[...] “FlickrFling is an open source project for people who wish to explore in an innovative and rather surprising way the different data feeds that form the building blocks of today’s virtual world. ” [...]
April 18th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Wow!!! amazing very nice
incase, if you are planning to write tutorial or publlishing fla of FlickrFling, please please do mail me.
I learn by recreating.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:34 am
[...] FlickrFling – An online application that converts an RSS feed into images pulled from Flickr. I can’t really see the use for it, but once I started playing with it I was strangely compelled. Read more about it. [...]
June 4th, 2006 at 8:38 am
is it open source?
Where can I download the code. i startet doing somehing similar.