Whomwah.com

This made me chuckle:

I have only just seen this. These guys have hacked google maps and are using it to show flickr photo locations in. This process is known as GeoTagging and this is the cleverest version I have seen; and I might add, is apparently ok with google (so far). I also read whilst snooping that one of the google maps engineers hinted that google may well realease an API for google maps so people would no longer need to hack it. I look forward to this.

I see that flickr (after much badgering from users) have changed the way they display individuals images. They used to show the image inside a flash wrapper. Their Ajax guru Eric Costello has now converted it all over to DHTML. It works really well and loads images faster. It’s a really clever use of DHTML, and does many other tricks to boot. You can get a link to a presentation they did on the subject via the link above.

Well it was only a matter of time I guess. It seems that Yahoo has bought flickr and Ludicorp. I initally though ‘oh dear’, but I guess this could be a good thing. After all Yahoo has lots of cash. Just as long as the concept remains the same.

My biggest concern though, are we going to start to see adverts and the whole yahooness take over the flickr site. I really hope not.