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Noticings: Geotagging Photo Game Powered by Flickr API

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 08, 2009

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We recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site.

One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings. Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Noticings asks users to upload geotagged photos of interesting artifacts to Flickr. Users tag the photos "noticings;" those photos are then imported, analyzed, and scored, with extra points being awarded for those who post every day in a given week, who post photos of lost objects, or who post the first pic from a certain neighborhood. It is, as the site states, "a game of noticing the world around you."

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"Many of us are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us," the site reads.

"Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower and having a look around you. It doesn't require you change your behavior significantly or interrupt your routine. You just take photographs of things that you think are inter

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