Comments on: Flickr doesn’t believe in Web 2.0

By: QMZR

QMZR — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:58:44 +0000

So what are they actually doing … blocking referers?

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=953
tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/ctjj2

By: whatever

whatever — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:27:12 +0000

You seem to be more in a gripe about having adsense removed, and you are now trying to make some big point here http://www.flickrlicio.us/2005/10/28/flickrlicious-is-now-ad-free/

“”FlickrLicio.us has NEVER made a single cent in profit. The ads that are on the site have not yielded a single cent in a check or deposit for the owner of the site. How can it be a commercial site if it hasnâ€™t made a single cent, and isnâ€™t selling anything from the site?”

This is b**locks come on, if you weren’t earning a cent from the site why:
-bother using them at all
-be so bothered that they are going

You were profitting from what is effectively hotlinking, others do it but that doesn’t mean it is ok

Just get over it ffs

By: azrasta

azrasta — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:17:32 +0000

Nick, I’d rather that you don’t call flickrbabes a competitor. I’m not competing against anybody. But thanks anyway, you sent a lot of visitors to my site yesterday, and I guess this boost in traffic will be somehow permanent.

By: cnb

cnb — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:06:35 +0000

I run chicksnbreasts and I just wish flickr would have told me to pull the ads so I could keep the site going. The way it happened was weak, and I definitely didn’t appreciate flickrlicious pointing fingers at me and the other sites mentioned. Good looking out Nick!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:07:55 +0000

So what steps need to be taken to make Flickrlicio.us “Flickr Aproved”?

By: Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:58:40 +0000

Hi Nick – I was going to comment on the Flickrlicious site, but I didn’t see any way to leave comments there.

I’m not sure what any of this has to do with social networking (??) or Web 2.0: it’s pretty simple. In two parts:

(1) Flicklicious is a business. Flickr isn’t around to serve businesses, but people – we’re quite upfront about the “for personal use” thing.

(2) Each Flickrlicious page served ~2-4MB of photos from Flickr. It’s also a popular site. That adds up to gigs and gigs and gigs of transfer a month. Good for Flickrlicious since it saves on bandwidth (and hosting) costs. But it’s bad for Flickr and is an abuse of a system designed to help people get their photos out onto the rest of the web, and not lock them up in Flickr.

To be perfectly honest, we definitely don’t like the T&A or XXX angles and we don’t want it associated with the Flickr brand, but that is definitely not the issue. The same thing would happen to an ad-based site serving Flickr photos about horses or sailboats or boogers.

Carry on!

By: Will Sisti's Blog

Will Sisti's Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flickr to censor?

By: Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nick Starr’s FlickrLicio.us Banned From Flickr