Surf Wave 73

30 March - fixed a bug that chose weird dates for explore when people used the fivprime.org/hivemind/explore link.
27 March - this morning I attempted to fix some obscure problems when searching multiple tags (space or comma delimited, even quoted strings are supposed to work). Most issues seem to be fixed, but there are still problems that may actually be due to bugs in the Flickr API itself.
25 March - I am making some major design modifications to the flickr hive mind code. Nothing is supposed to be different. Let me know of any problems!
20 March - The problem identified today (see below) with Banished (opt-out) users has been corrected. No user that has opted out should be seeing any of their photos on Flickr Hive Mind. It's highly likely that some major changes to the code base last weekend resulted in the problem.
20 March - One Flickr member has informed me today that the Banish option is not hiding their photos. I made major changes in Flickr Hive Mind to increase scalability last weekend. I may have introduced a bug. I'll be working to confirm the problem and fix it with great haste!
28 February - If you are logged in you now get new buttons that offer to show you public vs private views of your photosteam - this seems to work but is not well integrated with the rest of the buttons/form options right now. I'll try to fix that soon.
28 February - New tool is available! Flickr Black Magic
3 February - Hey! I noticed some enterprising individual was trying searches like : http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Date/2009-01-05 to see if it brought up Explore for that date. I've added it, it works now.
1 February - Set queries are available from the URL interface - try: http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Sets/your_set_number See the example below in the "Examples" section
26 January - Group queries should now be sortable, I discovered you can use the full photo search API (same as Tag, Text searches). Also, thumbnails should be centered more nicely now.
23 January - I hope the new Lightroom-inspired color scheme is appealing to you.
21 January - I've tried to block polyvore tools on the site, and have increased pixel size back - let me know of new polyvore activites - Nathan
Flickr users can follow the "Log In" links - once you have logged in you can view larger thumbnails. Remember: as a flickr user you are bound by Flickr's guidelines for picture use and the licenses of each author!
10 January: thumbnail sizes have been reduced to 100 pixels max (from 250) at least until the polyvore.com issue is resolved. This change may need to be permanent to prevent abuse. My apologies to those with older eyes (like me). My apologies to those whose photos have been taken from Flickr via the HiveMind search engine (which stores no photos) and placed on Polyvore. I've contacted polyvore.com to try and stop this practice from happening from Flickr Hive Mind. Grrr. -Nathan

API timings: +0:0:0:0:0:0:1

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Pairs: 27 surf,wave 26 ocean,wave ocean,surf 23 beach,wave beach,surf 20 beach,ocean 16 sea,surf ocean,waves surf,surfing sea,wave 15 ocean,water california,surf surf,waves california,wave 14 wave,waves water,wave surf,water surfing,wave 13 beach,california california,ocean beach,waves 12 beach,sea ocean,surfing beach,water ocean,sea 11 surf,surfboard 10 surfboard,wave surfing,water water,waves beach,surfing 9 california,water surf,surfer beach,surfboard nature,sea 8 canon,ocean nature,ocean california,surfing beach,sand california,surfboard beach,nature surfing,waves ocean,surfboard surfer,wave sea,water 7 seascape,surf beach,boards landscape,ocean boards,water beach,board surfboard,waves surfer,surfing ocean,sand seascape,wave surfboard,surfing boards,ocean ocean,pacific ocean,seascape nature,surf nature,wave 6 sand,wave ocean,travel seascape,travel pacific,waves board,surf boards,wave mavericks,water ocean,wallpaper ocean,surfer california,waves sea,waves surf,travel california,sunset landscape,wallpaper ocean,sunset boards,waves sand,surf pacific,wave mavericks,ocean sea,seascape sunset,wave surfboard,water beach,mavericks sunset,surf seascape,wallpaper california,landscape board,ocean boards,california boards,surf beach,pacific landscape,travel travel,wave surf,wallpaper california,sand pacific,surf canon,sea landscape,seascape wallpaper,wave boards,surfboard beach,surfer travel,wallpaper 5 halfmoonbay,water

Users: Eggz 7 William Dalton 6 PatrickSmithPhotography casch52 4 konaboy mutenostrilsyndrome 3 ground*floor Wish_Art tr1stero moonjazz Calico182 -bos[s]- Katarina 2353 Stephen Oachs www.tropicalphotosbylarson.com jimgoldstein Paul Purser Mike O'C mikebaird davesmithau Buck Forester Fernando Pe�n DJ Bass gcquinn
Example Queries:

* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/nikon/Interesting Interesting pictures tagged with 'nikon'.
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/nosha/Recent Nosha's photos, sorted by date posted to Flickr.
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/nosha/250/75/Timeline 250 thumbnails, size 75, user 'nosha', sorted by date photographed.
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/listentoreason Photos by user 'listentoreason', with default photo number, size, and sorting options (can change).
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/explore All 500 of yesterday's Explored Photos
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Sets/72157607681964723 Display a Photo Set in Flickr Hive Mind
* http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/MyContacts Better way to display more photos from your contacts - you must be logged in for this to work.

Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users and their contacts and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness. Flickr Hive Mind can also be an effective tool to identify stock photography with licenses that allow non-commercial (and sometimes) commercial use. Finally, Flickr Hive Mind supports authentication to Flickr, allowing visibility of your private and friends' photos as well as enabling your content filtering preferences. (discussion) Written by: Nathan Siemers. Inspired by (and thanks to) Flickr Leech. Dedicated to Anna and her Flickritis. Flickr Hive Mind stores no personal information nor photos, but some general information ends up in my apache server logs (time, IP address). Any revenue generated through ads will be used only to cover the cost of keeping this site online, beyond that Fiveprime will make donations to charitable organizations (also, there are no ads on User pages). Donations are now being made. Flickr Hive Mind is currently consuming about 5.1 terabytes of network bandwidth per year (not including the photos themselves)!

Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them. If you are a Flickr user and use Flickr Stats you may also have seen people being led to your photos via Flickr Hive Mind (as a Referrer). Flickr requires that I inform you that Flickr Hive Mind uses the Flickr API, but is neither endorsed nor certified by them. There are literally hundreds of other web tools built around the Flickr API, see Flickr Bits for a bunch of examples. If you are unhappy with your photos' presence on this site, you can (a) make your photos private for yourself, friends, and family. These settings will be instantly honored by Flickr Hive Mind and all other API-driven applications. (b) Hide your photos globally from text and tag searches on 3rd party sites that use the Flickr API, via your preference settings on Flickr. See the privacy tab at: http://flickr.com/account/. To also remove yourself from searches for specific user names, you will need to set your Flickr profile to be hidden from searches. (c) Finally, you can Banish Yourself From Flickr Hive Mind. To banish yourself from Flickr Hive Mind, you must first authenticate to Flickr, which lets Flickr Hive Mind identify who you are. Once logged in, come back to this area and there will be a link to banish you. If there are any problems email me at nosflickrhivemind ... at ... fiveprime ... dot ... org. (a few people with weird characters in their user names may have had problems)