This has been a great week for us Flickr users. First Flickr adds stats to our accounts and then they release a new version of their uploadr. I downloaded the new uploadr and it has a lot of features most of which revolve around being able to perform tag/set operations on individual photos instead of all photos that are being uploaded. I’m going to try and take some photos tomorrow to upload with and test.

The stats page is really nice because you can get statistics over all photos and how people access the photos. Normally, every couple days I went through the first couple pages to look at what people have been looking at and now I can see all that information on one page. It also shows statistics about each individual photos. I wonder if they are going to make this information accessible through the API and for other users accounts because it would be interesting to see this information on the top viewed photos. I think it would be a useful teaching method for people because (naively) the photos that have the top views should be the best photos on the site.

My top two photos are the ones that I submitted to the tech guy photo pool but the other top views are interesting and are actually not even my favorite photos. These are the ones I really didn’t expect to have a high view count:

I thought this was an interesting photo but I didn’t think it was excellent

This is a picture of lad fighting with Liem and I think it was more of a lucky shot than anything else.