flickr + Moo ?

[/pd]

FYI only.. nice idea n teh making here :)-..

http://www.moo.com/

[Citizen Rogue]

Totally. I already ordered two sets. :)

On 9/19/06, /pd <slas...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI only.. nice idea n teh making here :)-..

http://www.moo.com/

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[/pd]

hehehe.. pass the grog matey .. thats so kewl :)- but hey with the pro
account you would slip in the free 10 card stuff...

I was also wondering how this will impact the hugh blogcards space
..hugh is niche very niche..but flickr+moo could also become siliofied
to the indivudual.. the long tail effort in play..

[Nathan]

Was Moo done by the creators of Flickr? If so, those guys never cease
to amaze me. Some great minds.

[Citizen Rogue]

nope...an independent shop...it does show you the genius of the API, tho

On 9/24/06, Nathan <dre...@gmail.com> wrote:

Was Moo done by the creators of Flickr? If so, those guys never cease
to amaze me. Some great minds.

[Eric Skiff]

Truly. I've been singing the open API tune everywhere I go lately
precisely because of amazing things like this! Sure, flickr doesn't
get a monetary kickback from the vendor here, but they get all these
great products and services around their core service. It's made me a
flickr fan for life, and they're all but guaranteed the $25 from me
each year.

-Eric

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[/pd]

"guaranteed the $2.5 from me each year."

Lets take the long tail effect in play, before Y! bought out Flickr,
Stewart Butterfield indicated that the flickr group was approx 270,000
strong. Circa 2005

Circa 2006- Stat's on Flickr are still unclear.. but surely on teh
climb. I estimate approx on the high side of 1M users

Now -- if 10% of the Users are willing to spend that average $25/yr.
that gives an Open value Stream process of approx $2.5M/Yr for Moo
services - cross that out over a 3-5 yr period with ththe API, then it
could generate approx $7.5-10M 'new' market space.. that is space that
is non existent before for the flickr commuinity..

Moo is an early incumbant and can capture a little bit more of the pie,
then other contenders (who will soon follow) in this space....

This IMHO is a classic 'blue ocean' strategy in the making via an open
source API paradigm. We are yet to see other market space creation on
flickr platform for the community or generic users..

/pd

[Steve Rhodes]

It is a great idea, but it still needs work.

I started to get the 10 free cards, but found it difficult to crop any
of the photos I chose in a way that they looked good as well as
find the photos I wanted.

You can make a photo bigger to crop it, but you can't make
it smaller. I realize the photo might not fill the whole
card, but it seems you should be able to just have a background
color there.

It is easier to find the photos you want in the vox.com
interface.

It would also be nice to be able to have more than
one copy of a single image (maybe this is possible with
100), so you can give a copy to the person the photo
is of and keep one (or just do a run of 100 of an
image that works well as your card).

But I did manage to get 10 photos to work. Not the ten
I would have wanted, but it will give me a chance to see
what the cards look like.

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[Eric Skiff]

They seem to have take then "offload that work to flickr" aka "don't make the user sort twice" approach. By view by tags and sets, you can use your flickr organization you've already got going to find your favorite photos.

For example I just looked in my "wallpaper" set I've got where I keep some of my personal favorite landscape-format shots :)
 
-Eric

[Steve Rhodes]

Yeah, if I had the time I could have just created a moo set.

But they don't seem to load all the tags.

In vox you can search all tags and text and then select
the photos you want.

[mtam...@gmail.com]

I just ordered my 100. It was such an easy process, it took me all of
10 minutes to do the whole thing, from start ot finish.

yup, if you order 100, you can order a few copies of one image. Yup,
not all my tags came up, so that kinda sucked...however, i still
thought the process was simple and straightforward. I could see my
family using this a lot actually.

mish
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