Flickr Supports Developer Community With Gorgeous New Site

Mashable posted yesterday about Flickr Code, the new — and rainbow-colored — site for Flickr developers. From there, you can easily access the Dev blog, monitor new Flickr deployments, discuss the API, work on the open-source Flickr Uploadr, or as Mashable put it, “snoop in on the Flickr dev team and see what tricky business they’ve been involved in.”

If you’ve clicked over to the site, you’ve probably noticed by now that this community site isn’t even a proper social network in and of itself. It relies on links to existing message and chat boards within Flickr, posts from an existing developer blog, and a random stream of photos from Flickr headquarters.  It’s not new content, but it’s presented in a new way, at a destination that’s just for the truly geeky coder types who build stuff around Flickr.

If your organization has a community of geeks or developers that work around your product, and you want to show them how much you care, it’s as easy as repurposing content from other sources — like your developer blog, or from certain threads in your forums — and putting it in one easy-to-find portal. If you don’t happen to have a fully-fledged social networking tool onboard like Flickr does, it’s pretty easy to build one with the free, open-source forum software known as Vanilla.

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