Get your own tiny Flickr cards!
A few months ago I posted a picture of my new beautiful tiny little fun sort of business cards and since then I've been giving them out and every time I do so people sort of go, "Ooooh! Where can I get some of these?" Until now I've had to tell people just to wait a little bit longer, but now I'm delighted to say that I can direct you to MOO.com and the beautiful new site that they've just created.
I'm afraid I'm going to gush a bit about this one - it's such a lovely service. You can go to their site, tell them your Flickr username, and then it'll load up all your photos. You can then choose up to a hundred different images, crop them all to a size that you like, add your name and address on the back and they'll print them on high quality card in full colour and send them to your door for $20. The experience of up to a hundred unique and different little business cards is pretty bizarre and awesome. Because you took all the photos, they feel really personal and like each one has somehow captured a memory. It makes the whole experience of giving people cards more fun as well - they get to choose the card that they like the most. And they're completely expressive. Cal has a set of cards that are all of his bizarre Blinding Flash series of photos. I've got a set coming full of all my favourite photos from the last few years. It's all really good fun.
Now I've got a sort of vested interest in the project in as much as it's a little start-up that's full of high quality friends of mine, including Stefan Magdalinski and Dan Burzynski who I worked with at UpMyStreet.com and the wonderful Denise Wilton who I worked with (also with Flickr's Cal Henderson) at emap. But don't let that confuse you - it's a lovely little project and well worth exploring in more depth. And just in case you haven't noticed yet, if you're a Flickr Pro user, you can get ten cards delivered to your door for free! Every single one of you! That's pretty cool, huh?
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Ouch, they are doing some nasty browser detection, and won't let me in with Camino.
→ Posted by: Androse Rosewood at September 19, 2006 6:39 AM
Great stuff, worked like a charm. I've got two sets on the way. (If only couriers moved as quick as bits tend to.)
→ Posted by: Dave S. at September 19, 2006 7:22 AM
Have just ordered some. I wish all online shopping experiences were like that.
→ Posted by: Garret at September 19, 2006 7:41 AM
Just ordered some of these babies and it certainly is a great service. I was expecting at least to have to pay postage on my free cards, but was delighted that free actually does mean free here!
→ Posted by: Newfred at September 19, 2006 11:32 AM
Oh, this rocks. I'm all over it. Thanks!
→ Posted by: Dale Cruse at September 19, 2006 12:39 PM
This is absolutely brilliant, what a great idea ! I want some for sure !
→ Posted by: Ingrid van Vliet at September 19, 2006 2:40 PM
Very nice, and ten cards for free you say? ambassador you're spoling us.
→ Posted by: Tom at September 19, 2006 2:58 PM
It's really awsome... pictures as physical tags. :-)
→ Posted by: Luis Villa at September 19, 2006 3:28 PM
Pretty cool stuff Tom. Enjoyed your talk at the Future of Web Apps conference.
→ Posted by: Thomas Hawk at September 19, 2006 4:16 PM
I remember when I got your pseudo-business cards this summer, I thought they were the coolest thing. I'm going to order a batch for myself. Thanks for the linkage.
→ Posted by: Paul Stamatiou at September 19, 2006 4:29 PM
They look fantastic, shame the website has fallen over already :(
→ Posted by: Chris at September 19, 2006 8:06 PM
God these are gorgeous!
→ Posted by: Jennifer Fader at September 19, 2006 8:14 PM
Cool, I'll get some of these as soon as I've uploaded some decent photos to flickr.
→ Posted by: alastair green at September 20, 2006 9:31 AM
I've already ordered my sample 10 - love the benefits of Pro flickr memberships... thanks for the heads up (via mynameiskate.ca)
→ Posted by: Lex at September 20, 2006 5:07 PM
I wonder if the had a look at http://www.i-yo.com when developing their idea...
→ Posted by: Andy at September 21, 2006 1:30 PM
I think the Technorati ranks are quite skewed with regards to blogs the recently moved to science blogs. And from my own experience with Technorati, "recently" in their terms can be weeks... They're not always up to date, and have a very hard time handling moved sites or merged domains (two urls both leading to the same site). I tried that once and suddenly I had 0 incoming links, said the mighty Technorati website. Then I had to wait about a month for support, so you can see why I don't believe in Technorati's numbers very much.
→ Posted by: Jessica at October 1, 2006 11:03 PM
I am a "multi-blogger". I have three blogs on TypePad (one general blog [current events, sports, books, movies], one photoblog, one parenting blog), a work-related one on Blogger, and another group-authored blog on Blogger as well. One reason to have multiple blogs is to separate your work life and interests from your personal life.
→ Posted by: Christopher at October 2, 2006 3:35 AM
Does anyone know if they ship to the UK - and how long their turnaround for this part of the world is?
→ Posted by: Matthew Ogston at October 4, 2006 8:50 AM
what a wonderful product, I'm now waiting for my 100 pack, the 10 pack were so cute!
→ Posted by: aboutthisboy at October 4, 2006 4:44 PM