Flickr machine tags + more fine features
If you take a look at the site right now, you’ll probably spot a big change. Whilst you’ve been out noticing stuff, we’ve been adding new features and tidying up the site. Normally we’d release these changes as we go, but we’ve got one big feature that we hope it was worth waiting for.
We’ve been working with the fine folks at Flickr (thanks Aaron!) to add Noticings to their third party machine tag services. What on earth does that mean? Basically, a badge on the sidebar of your Flickr photos linking to Noticings, like so:
When you add the tag noticings:id=x to your photos, Flickr automatically fetch details of the noticing and its scorings from us and display it alongside the photo. To make this super easy for you to do, Noticings can write these tags for you, so you don’t even need to it yourself.
To turn it on for your account, sign into Noticings, click on ‘your account’, and change your machine tag settings. We’ll start updating your photos within 24 hours, so you might need to wait a while.
We’ve also tried to introduce Noticings to new visitors a little better with a big home page, explaining what it is and how to get involved:
And that’s not all. Here’s a little list of the some other stuff that’s been added or tweaked:
- Places and people pages now paginate perfectly. How’s that for alliteration?
- The score shown on a player’s page is now over the last 7 days, rather than their all time cumulative score.
- Each player’s page now shows their most active neighbourhoods.
- And at the last minute, there’s now a places search page, searching over 1.4 million neighbourhoods and towns. Try Soho, for example.
As always, if you notice anything awry, get in touch on our Get Satisfaction page.
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