Capital One x Flickr: Oh the Craziness
Posted by saki | Posted in Videos | Posted on 06-11-2008
Tags: Flickr
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When you log on to Flickr, on the home screen’s sidebar, there’s a list of some of the 3rd party services they use. I was surprised and confused to see Capital One listed there. I clicked and discovered that they have now made a partnership and a very beutiful one at that. Basically, if you’ve got a Capital One account you can now access your Flickr account and upload your photos to upgrade the design on your current card. I tested it out and it’s still very buggy. I have yet to see my flickr photos completely, like you do when you use the Moo.com service (I love them, check out their products), but when it stops being glitchy, I’m jumping on the bandwagon and updating my card’s look. Above is a test shot of one of my photos. Try it, see it works fine with you and go put art on your credit card.
Also, I believe its free! But I can’t quite confirm that yet, so don’t take my word for it. I will definitely update when I order one, but I had to share the current excitement. 
That’s great. Except for the part where the dozen or so designs I submitted to the Capital One card lab were all rejected with no explanation.
Has anyone else had any luck with this thing?
[...] First reported by Saki earlier this week, it appears Flickr has partnered with Capital One to allow credit card holders to create customized credit cards with Flickr images on the card. It’s about as personalized as you can get. [...]
Dear Saki, Thank you for blogging about the CapitalOne/FLickr product. I work for the company that supports the underlying tool and I am very interested in the specific details about the bugs you’ve noted above. Is there any way you could share them with me so that we could look into it and potentially address them as well? Thanks in advance!
Hey Vadim,
The biggest bug that I’m dealing with right now is that when I go to the link to “re-design” the card with one of my photos, my flickr photos aren’t showing up. I log into my account through capital one, I allow the access, but then nothing. None of my images pop up.
In order to get my test shot above, I needed to upload directly from my desktop. I would love for that to work. Beyond that, some of my readers are saying that once they select an image, Capital One isn’t accepting them. What’s up with that? I think I digressed there, didn’t I?
So, maybe the lack of loading is due to my browser? Is that a possibility? Thanks for asking, this makes me really happy and even more enthusiastic about using the service.
Ok – the issue with the images not loading is intriguing; when I test it with my account it seems to work fine (I go to CapitalOne site first, then ask to sign in to FLickr, and my images load up just fine) What is the browser that you’re using? If you wouldn’t mind, we could also connect via email (you can just reply to my email) to test your Flickr account on my machine.
Regarding the images rejected by CapitalOne: being a financial institution CapitalOne has to adhere to some guidelines of what constitutes an appropriate image for their credit cards. These include restrictions around trademarked/copyrighted materials, celebrities, cartoons, political or religious themes, and generally inapproriate stuff like violence or nudity. Users get prompted to agree to these guidelines on the page that you posted above (preview step).
Hope this helps and thanks again for your interest!
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