What is Exif? A short primer. Exif is short for Exchangeable image file format. A standard that specifies the formats to be used in images, sounds, and tags used by digital still cameras. In this case we are concerned with … Continue reading
At flickr, there are quite a few photos and you can browse the site in 8 different languages, including Korean and Chinese. Common metadata such as title, description and tags can be pre-populated based on information contained in the image … Continue reading
After we published Paul’s interview last week, he wrote in to let us know Groupr had been dusted off and was alive and well again. And followed it up with a post on machine tags, and automated EXIF extraction, two … Continue reading
This past summer we (Yahoo Labs and Flickr) released the YFCC100M dataset that is the largest and most ambitious collection of Flickr photos and videos ever, containing 99,206,564 photos and 793,436 videos from 581,099 different photographers. We’re super excited about the … Continue reading
Recently, the team at Flickr has been working to improve photo search. Before our work began, Flickr only knew about photo metadata — information about the photo included in camera-generated EXIF data, plus any labels the photo owner added manually like tags, titles, and descriptions. … Continue reading
You, the enterprising programmer, know about parsing EXIF from photos in the browser and even how and why to power this parsing with web workers. “But,” you ask yourself, “how do I get those photos into the browser in the … Continue reading
Wait! Did you say they all run Webkit? by Schill Thanks to everyone that came out to the SF Web Performance meet up last night! For those of you that missed it, JP and Aaron were kind enough to record … Continue reading
Team Tinfoil by waferbaby We will be hosting the SF Web Performance meet up tonight at 7pm at Citizen Space. Come join us for pizza, drinks, and these great talks: Using Web Workers for fun and profit: Parsing Exif in … Continue reading
(Flickr is hiring! Check out our open job postings and what it’s like to work at Flickr.) Web workers are awesome. They’ll change the way you think about JavaScript. Chris posted an excellent writeup on how we do client-side Exif … Continue reading
With over seven billion photos uploaded since day one, it’s safe to say that uploading is an important part of the Flickr experience. There are numerous ways to get photos onto Flickr, but the native web-based one at flickr.com/photos/upload/ is … Continue reading