1 Ajax and the Flickr API Simon Willison 11th November 2005 • Hundreds of thousands of new photos every day • Over 1.5 million users • Web 2.0 buzzword compliant • Social software • Tags / Folksonomies • Web Services • Ajax Origins of the A1 Ajax and the Flickr API Simon Willison 11th November 2005 • Hundreds of thousands of new photos every day • Over 1.5 million users • Web 2.0 buzzword compliant • Social software • Tags / Folksonomies • Web Services • Ajax Origins of the API • Wouldn’t want to trust a service with no export option • Don’t want to build an export tool • Solution: an API - let people build the tool themselves! • H
