WE LOVE TO BUILD™ isolated communities

WE LOVE TO BUILD™ isolated communities
Originally uploaded by chezrump

Been thinking about what has become of the LEGO community over the past few years & this photo best sums that up. Enjoy.

New Items

Just added some new items to BrickBuildr, now you can view a User Cloud, a Group Cloud by Photos or a Group Cloud by Members, and added an option to View Groups by Categories.

Technical Issues

The site has been having some technical issues the past day and a half. I think I've got them all worked out. If not, send me an e-mail and I'll look into it. And sorry for the inconvenience.

Yarrrrrr, it's a Double Letter Score

Yarrrrrr, it's a double letter score
Originally uploaded by Rattle and Hum

Happy Talk like a Pirate Day!

Slowness with the Site

If you experience slowness with the BrickBuildr web-site, it might be due to Flickr having some technical difficulties. Within the last few weeks Flickr has lost a switch which prevented them from serving up pictures... and they seem to be having problems today as well. :)

BrickBuildr

I created a web-site called BrickBuildr using Flickr's API (via phpFlickr). I read a few post on Lugnet about people found it hard to find AFOL's LEGO pictures on Flickr, that their LEGO pictures were mixed in with their personal photos. It was hard to browse, etc.

So far, I've asked 20+ people to join. An small cross-segment of LEGO photos total. From those photos, I created a tag-cloud from people's photos -- I think the cloud is a neat idea, btw. You're able to figure out what people are building & taking pictures on based on how many photos are tagged the same.

The only thing frustrating about it, Flickr seems to be having problems the last few days... It's been making indexing of pictures hard. And there seems to be a lag between adding a tag to a photo and for it to show up in the Flickr API. I spider out people's photos then add some of the information to a database. I plan to change it where instead of signing up for an account on BrickBuildr, you just authroize it via the API & this will created the enough information in the BrickBuildr database to start indexing a person's pictures. Maybe I'll get that finished next...