I tried to use Flickr Squared Circle Kaleidoscope and could not get it to open. Then I tried Flauntr and of course it wanted me to create a new account. I don't want to start creating new accounts in places I will never use again. Flickr Chia Pet wasted a few more precious moments of my time, then I found Flickr Logo Makr which creates logos for any word, but they look like the Flickr logo.
I tried several times to save an inspirational poster that I made via Big Huge Labs--fd's Flickr Toys but it would not upload the Flickr graphic here as a URL. Instead, I saved it as a jpg and it seemed to work just fine. Gotta love technology...
Of course all this playing eventually led me to the "The Commons: Your opportunity to contribute to describing the world's public photo collections." and I wasn't extremely familiar with that before. I had heard something about sharing digital collections via Flickr, and even though this wasn't part of our mashup assignment, I felt that if I was still learning something new, this was a good thing.
I think THIS is where the technology is leading us and where it will definitely be useful for libraries. The shared digital photography that may have once only been housed at one location is now being able to be shared with the rest of the world with the click of a mouse. This part of sharing photos online makes so much sense to me. It makes the world a smaller place and affords all libraries and patrons access to what was once inaccessible.
All the other stuff just makes it more marketable, and
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