Video support has been added to the Favorite Surfer. More video support is on the way for other toys where appropriate.

Update: Thanks for your help, everybody. No more testers needed. You can download it from here: http://flagrantdisregard.com/send-to-flickr/.
Over the weekend I created a photo uploader for Linux, specifically for Gnome desktop users:

I’m looking for some people who can install and try the package out before I release it publicly. Ideally I’d like several people to run [...]

I get a lot of questions from people asking why their photos move around in Flickr’s Explore. I’ve written an FAQ but I thought a visual explanation might be better. This video represents a single day of Explore, February 7th, 2008.

More information and credits below…

If you’re out of ideas and looking for some fresh inspiration, check out the great stuff your fellow Big Huge Labs members are creating and posting to Flickr.com. Over 177,000 photos are tagged “fdsflickrtoys”! Amazing (and thank you!).

Flickr is a great place to not only store your photos but share them with friends and family and do cool stuff with them, too. Teach your photos some new tricks and try Flickr out.
Give your Photos the fun of Flickr - Yodel Anecdotal

So, sometime recently, Flickr quietly lifted the limits on Pro accounts. You used to be able to upload only 2 GB per month but now you can upload an “unlimited” amount of photos. Viewing bandwidth is unlimited as it always has been. I rarely went above 1% usage anyway but this is still a nice [...]

The Canon Rebel XTi broke into the top 100 on the Top Cameras listing today at 85, up from 139 (go Canon!). The Nikon D80 is at 48, down from 40 since last week, undoubtedly just a blip on it’s way to the top 10 (go Nikon!).

These statistics are based on values that come directly from the Scout database at fd’s Flickr Toys. The most striking change since the last update is the sheer number of additional people who are now in Explore compared to July 2006. There are 21,458 more people in Explore now than there were in July (a [...]