Jul 27, 2008
destroyflickr
first of all, i love the name. destroy labs, sounds like something a team of alien scientists cooked up to save or, you know, destroy the planet.
secondly, this thing is more enjoyable to use than flickr. between this and photonic (how i upload photos, details on why this is cool here and here), i rarely even visit the flickr website anymore. the adobe air app phenomenon is getting me excited, because the idea of little apps that do specialized tasks is what i perceive as the future of the web. gone are the days where everything needed to be done through your bookmarks when you open up safari/firefox. i can go entire days now without EVER opening my browser. if you think about it, iphone apps follow the same path…widget-like efficiency that saves time, energy and battery life.
enough with the brouh-hah. this app is clean, crisp, uses one of my absolute favorite color combinations, and takes what i consider to be a novel approach to showing pictures. opening up an individual shot gives you almost all of an item’s info, and i even really enjoy browsing through my own photos.
currently, my only complaint is an inability to see set information/tags on the item info page. maybe there should be a way to browse one’s sets/collections, and to see what groups a photo belongs to.
