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Noticings: Geotagging Photo Game Powered by Flickr API - http://friendfeedlinks.com/show...
Noticings: Geotagging Photo Game Powered by Flickr API
Noticings: Geotagging Photo Game Powered by Flickr API
Shared 17 times We recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site. One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings. Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Noticings asks users to upload geotagged photos of interesting artifacts to Flickr. Users tag the photos "noticings;" those photos are then imported, analyzed, and scored, with extra points being awarded for those who post every day in a given week, who post photos of lost objects, or who post the first pic from a certain neighborhood. It is, as the site states, "a game of noticing the world around you." Sponsor "Many of us are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us," the site reads. "Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower and having a look around you. It doesn't require you change your behavior... - jnman