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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.
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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.
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02 Apr 05
Tobias LeeArticle looking at Flickr and the developing tagging/folksonomy culture
article bookmarks culture flickr internet metadata opinion reference service technology {to.read} web folksonomy tags
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The folksonomy discussion inspired David Sifry, founder and chief executive of blog aggregator/search site Technorati to launch its "Tags" service. Searching on a particular tag (eg China) calls up all links loaded under that tag on del.icio.us, all photos using it from Flickr and all blog posts categorised under that word.
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Tag team An innovative photo organising service is taking the web by storm. Jim McClellan reports Thursday February 3, 2005 The Guardian 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.
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Tag team An innovative photo organising service is taking the web by storm. Jim McClellan reports Thursday February 3, 2005 The Guardian 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.
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Tag team An innovative photo organising service is taking the web by storm. Jim McClellan reports Thursday February 3, 2005 The Guardian 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.
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n other words, they work because they let individuals do something useful to them first and foremost. Social network effects only emerge later. This is different from first generation social networking services such as Friendster
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05 Feb 05
Andy RobertsFlickr 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 t...
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