you are learning, MA. well done

There’s lots of people who wouldn’t mind sharing photos freely for non-commercial use. Why on earth would people in their right mind want to sign away all rights?

One thing that might be interesting, why not allow stricter licensing but have the uploader set a specific date that the photo will transition to a more liberal copyleft license?

12/31/2008

http://www.tinyurl.com/a3cyw6

Jeez!

Anyway, uninstalled.

you are learning, MA. well done.

Here are some pics … http://www.foto...4f-cfcee333d445

Merry Christmas

PS Interesting how so many people can’t drop the ‘yeah I could build this in 2 hours, where is the value….’ type of comment. All I can say is go and do it – or do something that you come up with yourself.

I have a couple of electrical engineer buddies that could build something like the first iPod in a couple of weeks. There already were dozens of mp3 players, where is the value in creating another one? Well… http://www.appl.../04/09ipod.html

We didn’t do it. My ‘problem’.

I’ve build something like Gmail (half ass) 9 years ago and never brought it to market.

My problem.

We developed ajax type web apps in the late nineties and dropped it because people told us that they only want stuff that runs on every f***ed up 1966 browser.

My problem.

Any script kid could build something like twitter (at least the old permanently crashing version) but they all didn’t.

Their problem.

What do I learn out of this? If you don’t do it it’s your problem and just because an idea hasn’t reached blockbuster status yet doesn’t mean that it won’t (or will) fly.

Creating functionality is is not hard anymore (in most cases) Creating an experience that people embrace is damn hard. That’s where the value lies in most things that take off.

Now let’s go do stuff (once our belly hurts less form all the Christmas dinners )

No problem.

Unlike Fotonauts, everything on Commons is required to really be under a proper free license.

Commons is likely to be the Wikimedia Foundation’s next big hit after Wikipedia – main problem at the moment is the search sucks. “We’re like Getty Images with really bad search.” There is technical work going on to attempt to alleviate this, FWIW (hampered by the fact that MySQL sucks, but anyway).

A php coder with 2 months experience can do this.

Nice design ? ok, but what’s innovative, creative ? What’s new with Fotonauts

Overall the images currently available are awesome and the site’s also really looking neat with the right colour combination. We have design some tattoo’s which i think i would upload via the gallery feature and share with everyone!