Two companies launched last week that will try to build a business catering solely to Flickr customers – FlickrInspector and Preloadr. Coincidentally, both companies are located in Europe.
Flickr, by the way, definitely punches above its weight in the photo category when it comes to attention v. relative size. It’s a distant 6th compared to other sites with about 6 million U.S. visitors each month and 80 million or so page views. Compare that to Photobucket’s 13.8 million monthly U.S. visitors and Yahoo Photo’s 11.2 million (no. 1 and no. 2, respectively, in the photo category). CNET’s Webshots is also slightly larger than Flickr, with 7.6 million U.S. monthly visitors. (source: Comscore, June 2006)
FlickrInspector
FlickrInspector is a simple tool that uses the Flickr API to provide information about a particular flickr user. Photos, tags, contacts’ photos, sets (albums) etc. can all be viewed on the site, for any Flickr user.
Preloadr
Preloadr is a very useful flickr-based photo editing tool. They’ve integrated the Flickr API with nexImage photo editing software and presented it as a new, free online service. No registration is required (or even possible) – you simply log on to your flickr account through the Preloadr site.
Pictures can be uploaded, edited and transferred to Flickr, or pictures can be pulled from Flickr, edited on Preloadr and moved back over to Flickr. There are several editing tools like cropping, sharpening, color correction and more. The only thing it doesn’t have, unless I’m missing it, is a cure-all “enhance” button that seems to work so often in iPhoto. A red-eye remover would also be appreciated, as mentioned in this blog.
Preloadr is not the only, or even the best, online photo editing service. My favorite is PXN8, which also offers Flickr integration. Others include Creating Online, Snipshot and Picture2Life.
Really sweet, i love Flickr. Check out ChickenFrog wher eyou can upload your own pics and make a personal homepage
preloadr.com has been developed by a Swiss company, not a german one…
Juts a minor thing. At least Preloader orginates from a Swiss company not a German. FYI, they speak sort of the same language but are still different like US vs. UK. Hope that is clear now. A precautionary note: Switzerland is not the same as Sweden. That one I’ll cover next time if required.
Just a minor thing. At least Preloader orginates from a Swiss company not a German. FYI, they speak sort of the same language but are still different like US vs. UK. Hope that is clear now. A precautionary note: Switzerland is not the same as Sweden. That one I’ll cover next time if required.
Ralf and 2ni – thanks, made a correction. Read the about page too quickly.
Regarding Flickr Tools – I’d like to add my own website, http://rss2pdf.com
We have a Flickr to PDF tool online that’s free to use:
http://rss2pdf.com/flickr/
[Please note to use this, your Flickr images have to be made Public. Also, the number of images in the PDFs are limited by the number of images found in Flickr's own RSS feed for your photos.]
I think preloader is a german company
how can anyone possibly build a BUSINESS out of this?
am i missing something
I wonder when the realm of pictures/images will be folded into the telecom industry?
If it sounds far-fetched, consider how telecom’s core was simply landline voice communications, but has expanded to long-distance, cell phone solutions, broadband, and television (cable or satellite). Oops, not to forget VoIP.
I see video services like google video or youtube getting integrated with telecom entertainment offerings, and I see so many new services related to image handling. I wonder when the telecom industry will start scooping up these image-related companies to become part of their offerings portfolio?
http://www.telecommer.com
Andy: There is obviously one logical explanation for this – to get bought out by Yahoo… although I’m not sure their strategy will work, since they are not located in the US. But good luck to them anyway!
I visit the regularly updated Great Flickr Tools Collection to find new third party flickr tools.
http://www.quic...ols-collection/
what is the biz model for these utilities… cant they team up with flickr and get some rev share
Maybe it’s just me, but flickrInspector isn’t finding any of the users I’m inputting (all of which exist).
There is also for mac fan the flickit widget which is a great tool for uploading your photos from your desktop to your flickr account. It’s easy like a widget but powerfull as a real app.
test it, it’s totally free
http://ropiat.free.fr/flickit/