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The Flickr folk succeed, essentially, by stealing damn near every single great idea that's floating around on the Internet.
Flickr steals from Orkut, Friendster, and other social-networking portals by allowing you to identify the relationships between you and other Flickr users. Log into Flickr, and you're instantly presented with a page containing all of the images posted by your friends, or your friends-of-friends. Did my friend Alice take pictures of her birthday party? No, but her friend Shiela did. This is actually a far more practical use of social-networking than anything the "real" portals have come up with.
It's also a community-building resource, like the thousands of message boards on the Internet. Flickr makes it easy to create social "groups:" public (or private) communities where any member can link images from their personal photostreams, or post messages. Create a group for your family wedding. Soon, it'll feature not only photos from two dozen different guests, and snaps of the couple's honeymoon in Cabo, but also a highly amusing thread about the groom's brother's continuing insistence that he was just pretending to be drunk during the reception.
Honestly, Flickr contains far too many good ideas to properly tell you about them all. And the hits just keep on coming: Flickr's creators have released a programmer's interface that allows independent developers to enhance Flickr on their own. Flickr is still technically in beta, but anyone can sign up for a free account at www.flickr.com.
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