Flickr badges, awards, invites and other nasty stuff
If you use Flickr, you've probably encountered images, flashing GIFs and badges in people's comments:
Cheap. Nasty. Whatever you'd like to call it, they're an eye-sore. I delete them whenever I see them on my photos.
Then I ran into this:
I have to admit, that's the funniest Flickr group I've ever seen - with a badge to match.
You can view the group here: Giant T-Rex Group
Facebook lacks a simple feature
How do you search for all of your friends that are from or in a specific location (e.g. all my friends in Namibia right now)?
Sounds like a simple enough search.
Or is this feature already implemented?
Update:
It's not linked to from the front-page - only when you do a search: http://www.facebook.com/advanced.php
Update:
And as a commenter pointed out, http://www.facebook.com/advanced.php doesn't exist anymore!
Gmail invites
This used to make sense when you couldn't get a Gmail account unless you got an invitation from someone who already had an account.
Now you can sign-up from the frontpage:
Now I have a (minimised) invitation box cluttering up my Gmail. I wish there was a setting to disable it (and I don't mean through a Greasemonkey script).
Feedburner counters
This (from 2008):
Reminds me of (from 1993):
Definitely Web 2.0's version of the page-hit counter; definitely an easy way to make any professional-looking website look amateur.
Thanks Gmail (for adding more rubbish emoticons)
First, we had these humble smileys:
Then gmail decided to give us a little more "eye-candy". This was really "cute".
I think the square-faces were actually implemented at the same time. Thanks for the variety!
Now we have these ones. Thanks again! I can express my individuality now!
Why? Enough already.
Flickr modifies start page – and makes life harder
There used to be a "Recent activity" and "Comments you've made" link, which has since been replaced with a recent activity page which merges the two pages.
Here are 2 solutions.
If you have Firefox, and you prefer having the two separate links:
- Install Greasemonkey. This allows you customise the way a webpage displays using Javascript
- Install the Greasemonkey script (the link directly to the JS file is in the image-description)
Now you should have something like this:
In fact, all this script does for you is create 2 links right next to the Flickr logo with the following links (this will work without Firefox):
For recent activity
For comments you've made
So you could just bookmark those and avoid the Greasemonkey script all together.