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Ever borrowed something and forgot about it?

I got a nice link some days ago. On qulpa.com one can register items borrowed or lent to remind friends of the debts or mange your own debts. That’s a nice and handy thing, especially for managing computer games Best of all, the company was founded by a friend of mine

Average Flickr uploads in the last minute …

I grabbed the number of photos uploaded in the last minute every 5 minutes from February 25th 2010, 1 pm to March 5th 2010, 2.30 pm (CET). This resulted in a number of 1,703 samples. This does not sum up to the actual time because timeouts and network problems occurred in between. Nevertheless I found:

• Average uploads per minute: 4,602
• Sample minimum and maximum: 1,852 and 8,849

This is interesting as many research papers (including some of my own) talk about upload rates of 6,000-8,000 photos per minute, which definitely does not reflect the average value. This might be a good reminder that systems actually working with people change and that we have to take a look at the number periodically.

ZoRa Photo Director

Just got word from Berthold Daum that he has integrated LIRe in the ZoRa Photo Director. That’s desktop asset management application, written in Java which allows for management of large photo collections. Source and binaries (Win & Linux) are available at http://www.photozora.org. Not to forget: it’s built on Eclipse!

Links

• http://www.photozora.org