gung-ho godzilla groupie 

<< Previous: Beijing building boom
>> Next: Crocodile Profusion

Clever uses for Flickr #1: Business card archive

The excellent Lifehacker (my new new favourite - apologies, Hanzi Smatter) pointed me towards this innovative method of indexing your business cards using Flickr. This could be really useful, especially here in Japan where meishi (名刺) are proffered upon you at the slightest opportunity.

Now if only there was some way to have each card appear automatically on Flickr, complete with accurate meta data, no matter how drunk you were when you were given it. That would be something worth seeing.

Posted by chris at October 18, 2005 06:48 PM | Permalink


Comments

Just pasing through, cool blog by the way.

Posted by: HumanityCritic at October 20, 2005 09:46 AM


Hi Chris., great site and ganbatte!

Posted by: Taro Akasaka at October 20, 2005 01:41 PM


Hi HumanityCritic and Taro - thanks for stopping by, and for the kind words.

Posted by: chris at October 20, 2005 03:58 PM


It was great to meet you, Chris, at the bloggers meet-up! For the November meet, do give us a link on the List to a map for Office Bar. Take your time--we have until mid-November. Thanks.

Here's a business card I have on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yawandmog/18549682/

It would look better scanned, perhaps. It's a great idea. How would you alphabetise it, though?

Posted by: Daphne Haour at October 20, 2005 10:37 PM


Hi Daphne - I haven't tried it myself yet, but I'm asuming you could put any supporting data you wanted into the comments field. Or tag them, whichever is easier to search... by? I'll let you know if I work it out.

Posted by: chris at October 20, 2005 11:58 PM


May 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

Search



Categories Archives Recent Entries

Syndicate this site (XML)

 

Home

Blog
About
Gallery [at flickr.com]
Glossary

Away

The Kanji SITE

Nihon:go

rikai.com
Jeffrey's J-E Dictionary
Moji (Firefox plug-in)
WWWJDIC
Babel Fish Translation

Disperse peacefully

[blogs:]
an englishman in osaka
antipixel
arakawa riverview
blackbeltjones
boing boing
bwg
easterwood.org
geisha asobi
gen kanai
gizmodo
gladwell.com
hanzi smatter
joi ito
kotaku
kottke.org
lifehacker
linkmachinego
melissa havergal
metroblogging tokyo
ninja polymath blues
plasticbag.org
sushi zume
tokyo times
undercover in japan
[not blogs:]
tokyo clubs info
tokyo food page
tokyo art beat
pingmag
superfuture tokyo
kakaku.com
tokyo train routefinder
tokyoplastic
yugop.com
the japan times
japan today
waiwai
[webring:]

Flash design by

hoohacorporation
[enable Flash banner?]

Flickr
www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from chris_san tagged with fbadge. Make your own badge here.

Hosted by

DreamHost

Powered by

Movable Type 3.2