Holidays
Featured Feature: Spring
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Featured Feature: FOOTBALL!
Monday, February 1st, 2010
The Point: Help Picnikers celebrate a certain popular, internationally-televised American Football sporting event, without actually mentioning said event by name, or calling down whole legions full of lawyers.
From Twitter:
Friday, October 2nd, 2009I think it’s *hilarious* that one of the loading messages on @picnik is “Calling Father Dyer.” That alone is worth the subscription.
-@coffeequeen
FOOTBALL!
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The Point: We had a whole new set of football related shapes and stickers, plus a useful new Effect ready for the first week of February wherein a certain popular championship game occurs between two teams of American football players representing their respective cities, the names of which and the images, copyrights, trademarks and pretty much anything associated with said sporting event are tightly controlled by whole phalanxes of lawyers that no small plucky Seattle startup wants to mess with. So I had some fun with it. And pointed out we get more users than they get move viewers.
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A Valentine’s Extravaganza
Friday, January 16th, 2009
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Ringing In 2009
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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Dreaming of a White Picnik
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
The Point: We were having a really snowy couple of weeks in the run up to Christmas that year. I really wanted to reference it in the line about being unable to find their cars, let alone go downtown for last minute shopping, so why not Picnik! Also, after the “Holidays” confusion of the December Flickr Picnikers post, I was reluctant to use that word to reference the Christmas holiday, specifically, so I borrowed the line from Bing Crosby to reference Christmas without actually saying so.
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Picnik Gifty Goodness
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
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Flickr Picnikers Group: Holidays Around the World!
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The Point: To announce another monthly contest on the Flickr Picnikers group. This one was intended to be a little different, in that we translated it into Spanish (our third-biggest country for originating traffic at the time was Mexico and many other Spanish-speaking countries weren’t far behind) to see if it couldn’t drum up some non-English language participation in that group. There are several Picnik-related fan groups on Facebook, several of which are formed by users in Latin America.
A lesson learned here: An international audience really doesn’t catch onto the American habit of referring to the holidays around Christmas as “The Holidays”. The contest got off to a slow start because, even though the group admin’s example was specifically Christmas-related and the contest took place in December, valuable time passed with people entering standard vacation picks and further clarification was necessary.
Read the original post: Flickr Picnikers Group: Holidays Around the World!
And the winners: Flickr Picnikers Group: Winners Around the World!