Flicka

Check Twitter For Development Updates

Flicka — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:56:20 +0000

Instead of posting our biweekly progress updates to our blog, we’ve been posting updates to Flicka’s Twitter account. Check it out for juicy developmental progress updates.

Keep the positive vibes flowing! Believe us, we’re as anxious as you to get this launched.

We’re Alive & Still Progressing…

Flicka — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:25:04 +0000

It’s been a month since we gave you a peek at Flicka via video. Since then, one developer had a baby boy which has significantly cut development time. (Don’t worry, we’re making him work triple-overtime behind locked doors.) We’ve also had company distractions outside of Flicka, most of which have diminished.

Long story short, we’re back in the game. Hold on to your patience (assuming there’s any left) and look for exciting updates soon…

Flicka Teaser Video! [Finally]

Flicka — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:12:07 +0000

Here’s a video teaser of Flicka running on a T-Mobile MyTouch phone! The video covers some basics:

Viewing your favorite photos
Setting a new wallpaper
Viewing contacts & user details
Viewing groups / group photos
Viewing Photostreams

Searching and image-capturing is just about done, but wasn’t quite ready for video.

If you like what you see, please leave us positive reinforcement! We eat it up like candy!

Flicka: Beta Teaser from Flicka on Vimeo.

Video Flicka Reveal [Late March]

Flicka — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:57 +0000

Image mockups of Flicka have been stacking up on our Flickr application page for the past few months and the positive feedback we’ve received from you has been nothing short of brilliant – props! As we draw closer to a beta release, it’s only fair to continue the teasing: a video of us coding in slow motion Flicka running on a phone.

Look for the video to premier on March 26th – we’ll supply the popcorn.

Update: Due to unforeseen schedule conflicts, we’re behind on the video release – we’ll have it to you asap.

March?! WTF?!

Flicka — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:11:23 +0000

Wow, February came and went quickly – like, really quickly.

The majority of February was spent converting designs to Android templates. Now we’re hard at work hammering out random bugs, scribbling out the last few mockups, and getting ourselves ready to make our first Flickr upload via Flicka. (Eeee!)

More news to come…

Flicka.mobi Touch-Up’d

Flicka — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:04:31 +0000

Since Flicka.mobi was getting a little crowded with blog postings and whatnot, we’ve launched a cleaned version. It’s completely mobile-friendly, naturally. (Web geeks, it’s valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and makes use of text-shadow – yummy!)

Progress continues to steadily rock on Flicka – more updates coming soon!

Flicka’s Getting Press [We heart U]

Flicka — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:55:43 +0000

To us, you are a big deal. When Flicka gets attention from you (be it a blog-post, comment, favorite, bookmark, etc) we squeal with excitement – worse than girls at an NSYNC concert. (Seriously, it’s absurd.)

We’d like to throw a few high-fives to those who have taken the time to mention Flicka:

Adnan brought some recent attention to our mailinglist – props!
Manuela Hoffmann is the first to get Germany on board with Flicka!
To everyone using Netvibes, Twitter, and Facebook, you’re our BFF.

At this point, word-of-mouth appears to be viral. Just yesterday, we randomly heard that Flicka is being eagerly anticipated by a German photographer, a guy who is only known through a friend of a friend. Long story short, we’re starting to hear of everyday people mention Flicka – and it’s all because of you. (Cue girly-squeals!)

We *heart* you.

Favorites & Search: Flickin’ Righteous

Flicka — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:12:40 +0000

Two main tasks have been keeping us busy this week: building the Favorites page; and designing an intuitive Search page.

The Favorites page is nearly complete – like, really close folks. The remaining task is to incorporate a smooth lazy-loading system. We want to keep your phone battery full, so keeping data pulls to a minimum is very important.

A Search page mockup is ready for viewing pleasure. Although somewhat basic, it gives the user powerful searching capabilities without a high number of finger-tapping.

As always, give us a shout on any of our Flicka channels to let us know how we’re doing: Get Satisfaction, Flickr, or Facebook.

User Profile Screenshot [Drool]

Flicka — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:52:16 +0000

We’ve started building out the User Profile page for Flicka, and well, we’re freaking pumped.

A few roadblocks have popped up, as the Flickr API doesn’t give us access to some profile data – things such as gender and biography content. But don’t get discouraged, we’ll find ways around these issues, even if it means carrying around IV drips of coffee.

Next on the list of Flicka screenshots will be the Upload page. We’re paying close attention to detail – tagging, description, title, adding to sets/collections, etc. It’s all being designed into one, stylish page.

Let us know what you think of the design so far, and as always, hit us with your suggestions.

What’s been keeping us busy…

Flicka — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:36:56 +0000

With all the positive feedback we’ve received since launching Flicka.mobi and the other Flicka channels, our excitement continues to grow as we creep closer to launch.

Here’s a quick list of things keeping us busy:

Integration of camera features: We’re giving the user the ability to capture and upload images directly from their phone.
Caching: We want the load-times of Flicka to be as fast as possible – caching should help.
Powerful Exploration: Browse photos based on tags, keywords, etc and sort by “most interesting” or “most recent”. Also search your Contacts or personal photos with ease.

Have ideas? Give us a shout!