David Troy

Flickrvision is the brainchild of American entrepreneur David Troy, who has been working in technology and graphic design for over 20 years. Curious about the flow of visual data around the world, and inspired by the success of his last project, www.Twjtteryjsipn.com, David Troy created the mashup site in May 2007.
"1 thought that visualising pictures from around the world in realtime would be compelling," he explains. "I really like the framing of the large-sized photos (seen when you mouseover the small photos). When I travel, I wilt often stop by an Apple store and put Flickrvision onto a current iMac - the ones with the nice black and silver screens. It really looks great."
Troy re-used a tot of the code and structure that he used to create Twittervision. "Getting the data streams to work was easy," says Troy. "But getting the picture data, geolocating it, saving that and spitting it back out was a challenge that took some time to master, though I had some experience with that general process in doing Twittervision."