Perhaps it’s time to explain my new website naming conventions. There’s a reason for these somewhat edgy names: they’re short, and a pronounceable five letter .com domain name is a valuable property these days. Eyebrows probably rise a notch when people see them and maybe a smile escapes, but they make an impact.
It turns out that my two latest programs, Shiht and Suhck, represent some of my finest work. They’re state of the art Html5 sites that actually provide a very sweet service, and they now compliment each other.
Shiht grabs popular Tags from Flickr and presents them in the form of a Word Cloud where the most popular tags rise to the top. When you click on a tag, Suhck is launched with that tag as it’s search parameter. It’s just a great way to explore photos on Flickr!
A funny thing happened today as I was finalizing this code. I kept noticing some punk kid’s photos popping up in various tags. I researched him with my own tools and discovered he lives in Brazil. He was attaching every popular tag to each of his meager 114 shots, probably via code. Stupid hacker punk! Anyway, I just hacked him back, no photos of that boy showing up here :-)
One more thought. I know a few of my regular followers use their tablets to drop by here and I’m working on these apps to make them more android/apple friendly…
The photo below is Shiht in Most Popular tag mode. You can toggle across Daily and Weekly tag modes from within the program. Click Here to try it out!
Flickr really needs to lower it’s tag limit per photo and add some intelligent comparisons against their popular tags. The current limit is 75 tags per photo. Really? Can you imagine typing in that many tags each time you upload a photo to Flickr?
The hackers use this limit to their advantage, so, I’ve set a tag limit in my code. If the number is exceeded, I skip the photo. Along with some other criteria you might select 50 photos, and only get back 20. But, the ones you get are great!