Flickr searches can be slow, so one man decided to speed things up. Doc Rogers talks to ‘Houser’ inventor of FlickrLeech … is it life in the fast lane?

Doc: I’m always surfing the web looking for new and interesting sites for this and my own blog (www.docrogers.co.uk). I stumbled across FlickrLeech last year and thought it was a pretty cool piece of programming. I emailed ‘Houser’ who created the site, and caught him half way through a Beta launch.

Hi Houser, good to speak to you … what’s FlickrLeech all about for those who haven’t seen it?

Houser: Initially it started out as a little tool I used to check the ‘Interestingness’ photos on Flickr for a particular day. Because that feature is a real-time moving target (it potentially changes every minute). read full post »