flickr information

[jwgh]

Some people have expressed interest in how I post photos to Flickr directly from my phone. Flickr maintains a secret email address for each account; if it receives email to that address and the email contains a photo it then posts the picture to the corresponding Flickr account. I post by emailing the pictures to that address from my phone. More information can be found at http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#33 and at http://www.flickr.com/help/account/#47 .

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

What'll happen when spammers start brute-force guessing these email addresses?

[jwgh]

It's something I wonder about too. It hasn't happened yet, so either it's too difficult or it hasn't occurred to anyone to try yet (or Flickr has some way of protecting against this, but I'm not sure what that would be -- maybe if it notices the same photo being posted to multiple addresses at around the same time it dumps them).

[waider.livejournal.com]

My cellphone provider tends to charge through the nose for anything that might be considered a useful service, so I took advantage of one of the few things they provide for free: you can send a picture via MMS to a "photo album" on their site, which is only accessible to you the customer so it doesn't actually substitute for flickr. However, with a little scripting, I glued together a scraper that pulls images off the album and posts them on flickr instead, extracting any metainformation it can along the way. This is the source of most of what I have on flickr, since stuff I take with a regular digicam tends to wind up on my site.