Making PicFog safer for work

Just think about the proposition: PicFog shows pictures from twitter as they’re posted. Anything smells funny? Sure it does, if you have more than two months of internet experience. If we show every single picture from twitter, some of the pictures will be very likely inappropriate, disturbing, disgusting or just not pleasing to the eye.

What does it mean in practice?

In practice, it means that roughly a minute after you open up the site in the live flow mode, you will see something ugly. I can almost guarantee.

On the other hand, if you’re searching for a keyword or location, you’re getting what you’re searching for - if you’re searching for nice and pretty things, you’ll get nice and pretty results.

But the issue is, whenever you want to start to picfog for nice and pretty things, you first have to type in PicFog.com - which shows all the pictures from twitter as they’re uploaded. After a minute: bang, a genital. Not nice, not pretty.

So here’s the solution to make PicFog a workplace-friendlier site.

From now on, whenever someone first visits picfog.com, they’ll be welcomed with this screen. Two options - if you don’t mind seeing ugly pictures for the experience of keeping your finger on the pulse of the universe, you can do that. But if you are a bit fainter-hearted, you have the option to see just the search box - and get results for exactly what you’re searching for, without the occasional cock on your screen.

lijzer:

So I was picfogging again, checking out Santiago and Chile in general… no fun :( I love this website though.

jswtf:

This is a fun one with type coercion. It comes from John Resig’s explanation here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154338

Better location search on PicFog

From now on, you can search for location and keyword at the same time. For example you can see what are cabs like in New York at the moment (snowy at the moment). Or you can have a look at the news in London. To boarden the search, you can change the radius or remove the keyword (or the location) criterium by clicking at the little x next to it.

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Effects of a breaking news event on PicFog follower numbers

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