Compfight: powerful search-tool for Flickr images

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 19, 2008 1:08 PM | permalink

Compfight is a great new tool that uses Flickr's API to search the database of photos (including the option to do full-text search on titles and descriptions, and to limit searches to Creative Commons licensed works only) and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails. Unlike Flickr's own advanced-search page, Compfight remembers your settings from search to search (great for me, as I'm always foraging on Flickr for CC-licensed stock photos), and the large quantities of search-result thumbnails per page makes this the ideal choice for playing photo-editor. Link (Thanks, JJ!)

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#1 posted by acfou , March 19, 2008 1:20 PM

http://picturesandbox.com

searches Creative Commons photos on Flickr, plus adds other collections like SmugMug and Webshots; and adds microstock sites like StockXpert, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and LuckyOliver for purchasable images.

And it is designed to calculate your screen real estate so it can fill up your screen with as many thumbnail results as possible

see 1,500 thumbnails up on quadscreens here:
http://picturesandbox.com/quadscreens.html

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#2 posted by Robert , March 19, 2008 1:35 PM

Doesn't look like I can search for specific CC licenses. You know, like http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons does.

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#3 posted by hobson , March 19, 2008 2:30 PM

Yikes "Service Temporarily Unavailable"
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

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#4 posted by furiousmarmoset , March 19, 2008 2:43 PM

site is back Up!

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#5 posted by acfou , March 19, 2008 5:25 PM

http://phreetings.com/

phreetings = photo + greetings

a place to create e-greetings using Creative Commons photos by drag and drop

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#6 posted by o0oo00o0o

, March 19, 2008 6:49 PM

Awesome. Except it doesn't appear to work in Opera.

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#7 posted by Jayel Aheram , March 19, 2008 8:04 PM

It will not be long before copyfascists freak out in Flickr and attempt to shut it down.

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#8 posted by Uncle_Max , March 19, 2008 8:11 PM

Picture Sandbox isn't working for me at the moment (I'm using Firefox, if that makes any difference). But Compfight works like a charm.

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#9 posted by donaleen , March 19, 2008 9:09 PM

I can't find my own tagged photos... why not?

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#10 posted by acfou , March 20, 2008 4:57 AM

in Opera, it appears it only displays the thumbnail results after ALL thumbnail results have been loaded into cache, not as they are streaming in. So give it a few seconds and you will see the results on the left side. Then you can drag and drop a selected photo to the top box, type your greeting, and then click send.

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#11 posted by baltimoregal , March 20, 2008 8:48 AM

LOOK AT THAT DOG!

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#12 posted by acfou , April 18, 2008 4:44 AM

The corresponding Facebook app is also available now.

It is available at:
http://apps.facebook.com/phreetings/