{"id":2063,"date":"2007-12-28T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/28\/a-flickr-powered-screensaver-incredible\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:01:01","slug":"a-flickr-powered-screensaver-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/28\/a-flickr-powered-screensaver-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flickr-powered screensaver? Incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to turn this into a Dave Winer *thing,* (and I don’t want to contribute to a “bitchmeme”<\/a>) but I have to say that the release of his newest software tool — a Mac-only screensaver\/RSS widget called FlickrFan — fills me with, well… a sense of underwhelmingness. I mean, Marshall Kirkpatrick tries hard<\/a> to make it sound like the best thing since bread came sliced, and so does Robert Scoble<\/a>, but still fails to stir much interest (at least in me). And not just because this software is just for Apples, either. <\/p>\n

When you get right down to it (which doesn’t take long) it’s a screensaver for Macs that lets you subscribe to people’s photo feeds from Flickr. Is that really a huge development<\/a>? I find that hard to believe. I’ve been using a Windows screensaver called Slickr for some time now that does pretty much the same thing<\/a>, and my friend Rob points out<\/a> that he’s been using his computer as a photo and media server for years.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that Dave’s software is useless, or that showing Flickr photos on your computer isn’t a worthwhile thing to do. Far from it. In fact, just the opposite — I think it’s a great idea. But I don’t really think it’s anything revolutionary. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins over at Mashable doesn’t think<\/a> it’s much to write home about either, apparently, and says Yahoo Go does pretty much the same thing, but better. Michael Gartenberg at Forrester says that<\/a> it “totally changes the game,” but that’s a pretty hype-ish thing to say, as Ian Betteridge notes at Technovia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want to turn this into a Dave Winer *thing,* (and I don’t want to contribute to a “bitchmeme”) but I have to say that the release of his newest software tool — a Mac-only screensaver\/RSS widget called FlickrFan — fills me with, well… a sense of underwhelmingness. I mean, Marshall Kirkpatrick tries hard … <\/p>\n

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