Amateur Hour with Jordan Isip

Many of you on DailyCaption asked, and it is now finally here - pulling Flickr photos with multiple tags. For now, you can add Comma separate tags for AND searches. So for example, if you wanted to generate a photo that had the tags crazy AND sexy AND cool, you can add “crazy, sexy, cool” as a single tag. Sort of ghetto for now but it is one way to have more control over the generated Flickr photos. I may change it so that it uses all of your tags in your tag pool to generate a photo. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Additionally, when DailyCaption goes out to Flickr to find a new photo, it is now sorting the photos by ‘most interesting’ on Flickr, so hopefully this will pull some interesting photos and not Pis Spamcilar again.

Based off of a few suggestions made by the DailyCaption community, I’ve made a few updates to DailyCaption!

New tie breaker rules The old tie breaker system had a loophole. A suggestion by zyxtcba resolved this. Here are the new rules: If another caption has the same amount of caption points, DailyCaption will settle the tie by comparing the total votes. If there is still a tie, total number comments on the captions are compared, then the caption author points, then finally if everything is STILL equal, the tie goes to whichever user joined DailyCaption first.

Icons in users listing Suggested by dbc, there are no avatar icons in the user listing. So if you haven’t already, add your profile avatar(must be logged in)!

Comment E-Mail Notifications Suggested by Ian, Leah, and KarateRobot, you will now get an e-mail if somebody (other than yourself) posts a comment on your caption. If you are not a fan of e-mail notifications, you can easily opt-out by changing your e-mail notification settings on your account.

More Captions Per Page Lastly, as suggested by McQDew there are now 15 captions per page instead of 8.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions for DailyCaption, please either reply to this blog post or post on the feedback form.

See you on DailyCaption!

You can now see the daily photo along with the #1 caption on your iGoogle homepage! Just add the DailyCaption gadget to your iGoogle!

No your eyes are not deceiving you, there are indeed ads on DailyCaption as of earlier tonight. As you may know or may have heard from some geek on the streets, servers and bandwidth aren’t free! Hopefully these ads will raise enough money to pay for the servers and I’m also hoping to raise enough money to have monthly or even weekly contests in the near future! So please help support DailyCaption by clicking on the ads! :D I hope they don’t get in the way of your captioning too much!

See you on DailyCaption! As always, please use the suggestion form or reply to this post if you have any comments or suggestions.

Based off of your suggestions, I’ve added new and better RSS Feeds! You can now see the daily photos along with your captions! You can now subscribe to:

Recent photos with the number 1 caption for each photo

Today’s Captions

Recent Captions

If you have a suggestion or if you found a bug on DailyCaption, please let me know!

See you on DailyCaption!

You can now easily share you captions on DailyCaption! Send your captions to your friends or even send them to your rivals to rub it in their face. Just click the “Share” link next to the comments link on each caption. From there you can post your caption (or captions that you like) on the your Facebook profile, Twitter account, Delicious bookmarks, Digg, or Reddit. I’ll be adding the ability to send captions to your friends through email sometime soon :D

Good luck on Today’s Daily Caption contest! Start sharing your captions!

If you are a mobile internet (PDA/Cell Phone), you are in for a treat! Although it has very very limited functionality, II just put together a mobile version of DailyCaption!. It is a read only version of today’s photo and captions. I created it so that I can keep track of the contest while I’m out and about! Check it out: http://www.dailycaption.com/mobile

New Functionality

blush_response submitted a suggestion on the suggestion form to add website/blog URLs and Flickr URLs to user profiles. Ask and you shall receive (sometimes :D). You can now add your URLs and Flickr URLs to your profile so we can all stalk you!

New Press

Also, DailyCaption got a little bit more press!:

Emily Chang’s E-hub (thanks for the heads up Barbez) along with Web2Null

Front page on CSSMania! Please vote DailyCaption up!

DailyCaption Stats

DailyCaption stats within the past 48 hours (since the public launch):

2,308 Visits 8,266 Pageviews

Help DailyCaption

Don’t forget to Digg DailyCaption and tell your friends!! Thanks :D

Yay! DailyCaption got it’s first write up! Check it out on Mashable!

Update: Another writeup on KillerStartups

Watch out for DailyCaption ads! I just started a marketing campaign through AdBrite! Please help spread the word! Please vote it up on CSSReboot and add a review on SimpleSpark

Thanks for the help!!

I apologize for sending double activation e-mails on DailyCaption! That was my bad - seeing as how I can’t really blame anyone else ;) Thanks to whomever submitted the bug in the suggestion/feedback box!! I would have sent you an email directly, however, you weren’t logged in at the time so all I see is “Guest”. :(

To anyone that is reading, please help spread the word on Digg and Reddit

See you on DailyCaption!

My DailyCaption project is ready for public use!! DailyCaption is a community that takes Flickr photos out of context. Each night, a new Flickr photo is generated for members to contribute new captions and rate others.

Think you’re clever? Post captions on Flickr photos at http://www.dailycaption.com !

See you there!