Article on Tagging and Flickr at CNET's News.com
'Tagging' gives Web a human meaning | CNET News.com CNET's news.com has a story out this morning about tagging and Flickr and other web services companies that are employing tags.
"In Flickr, tags worked because they were fundamentally social," said Stewart Butterfield, Flickr's co-founder. "By agreeing on a tag in advance, users could collectively curate collections of photos in a dead simple way. Now we see people announcing at events, 'The tag for this is baychi05' and stuff like that."
Jane McGonigal: "When I go to Flickr and I tag people's photos, it's to show them that I care," she said. "It's like a hug."
2 Comments:
hey hawk,
if one saw flickr as a racing pony, how would one go about betting on its meteoric rise? is that a yahoo thing? give me some scoop, por favor.
hopper
I wish. Flickr at this point represents too small of a piece of Yahoo! to bet on their business financially. Not sure their is a way to except to possibly build something comparable with a bunch of talented engineers and VC money and sell it to someone else. Microsoft and Google still need their own Flickrs of course. The early to market advantage that Flickr has at this point gives them a huge leg up over what Microsoft or Google might try and buy or create themselves at this point.
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home