It is hard to avoid the buzz online about Flickr, a photo organising/sharing service yet to celebrate its first birthday. In tones echoing the optimism of early 90s internet culture, enthusiasts say the service makes possible new kinds of conversation and community. For others, it shows how the efforts of individuals can be harnessed to help organise the internet.
Flickr's growth has matched this excitement. Though still in beta, it has 245,000 members, and is growing at 5-10% a week, according to co-founder Caterina Fake. "We have 3.5m photos online - members upload up to 60,000 new photos a day."
Digital photography is hugely popular and online storage and organisation is one solution to the image overload many snappers experience. But other sites offer similar services. So why has this Vancouver-based operation generated such excitement?
Flickr is well designed and easy to use, but its popularity is probably because it permits what Fake calls "a rich, sharing experience". The tools it gives users - in particular the ability to "tag" photos (describe their content with a key word) and then, via those tags, share images with others, have unleashed the social potential of digital photos.
lots of cool photos are posted on flickr .. including ballistics.!
Happy Birthday Flickr!!!
FlickrGraph is a great new Flickr third party app by Marumishi, aka Marcos Weskamp.
Flickr Graph is an application that visualizes the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs. Start exploring your contacts by entering your flickr username or the email address you used to register there.
Be sure to doubleclick through on the member's icon to see a view of their latest photographs, as well as links to the tags they use most frequently. It's a really lovely way to surf Flickr.
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