Flickr Review
April 24th, 2006Flickr.com is an online photo sharing site. Its content is generated by its users, and it grows in any of the directions that they feel necessary. Flickr takes advantage of all of the latest paradigms of visual navigation, content syndication and applied programming interfaces (apis). And most importantly, it has an advanced content tagging system, which allows metagalleries to be instantly generated by shared keywords. This also allows you to create personal metagalleries if you have a large amount of photos shared, so that you don’t need to manage multiple galleries, rather you can just manage the tags that you use to define pictures, and let these tags define the layout of the galleries. There is also built in rating and commenting systems that promotes community interaction, and the sharing of information and talents. And Flickr also does an amazingly fantastic job at allowing users to upload their content from phones, wirelessly, or via the web their photos. In addition to these methods, you can download plugins for popular home photo management software, so that Flickr can be aware of changes you make to your local files, and update your personal galleries simultaneously.
I’m a big fan of Flickr (if you couldn’t tell) and so rather than rehash what I feel are their strengths, I will look at any of the areas that they might improve:
Multiple suggestions of similar or interesting related photos - When you are browsing, you do see thumbnails of both the next and previous image in the thread you are browsing, but it would be nice if you could also see these thumbs (and a few more) that relate to the pattern you are investigating by ratio of that thumbnail (closer match, larger thumb).
Additional level of affinity - Rather than ‘blog’ an image, or add it to my ‘favs’, it would be nice if the system could tell how I feel about the image by the amount of time I spend on the page, if I read any comments (by rollover) or if I look at the hotspots of an image. This would help the AI predict patterns more quickly.
Hierarchical history tree view - I’m often lost deep in some thread or users gallery after noticing an image I like and following that path, this is great, but unfortunately I lose some of the threads I was on. It would be nice if Flickr kept track of this session, my afinity towards images on each page, and showed me a nice way to trace my steps.
Overall, Flickr is the current end-all, be-all of web 2.0 media management. It is phenomenally successful, due to the fact that beautiful photos are a prime medium to showcase on the web. Any system that attempts to mimic it, or even wishes to work within its framework have plenty of support and options from the Flickr team and community, something that speaks volumes for the future of a product/service.
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