Flickr: A New Form Of Social Network?

January 20th 2007

Everyone knows that Flickr is a great community of photos. You can find photos of everything under the sun. I’ve been fan of it for a long time and now I’m seeing it grow into something even more then just photos.

We all read blogs and communicate through them with posts and comments. Each of us has a set of blogs that we frequent and when they are those of friends, full blown conversations can happen in them. I have conversations that span blog comments, instant messages and e-mails. Now though they’ve moved into Flickr.

Earlier today I saw a picture Chris Brogan posted on the way to a book store. I left a comment asking what he was buying. I would have never planned to go back and see the answer, but then I saw a picture posted tonight called Answering C.C.

Amazing that a simple photo upload site has grown into another form of social network that is still as simple as always, but still something so much more.

Earlier this week I came up with the idea for SlackerShots.com and now this. What’s next?

I love this world of new media. LOVE IT!!

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  • http://network2.tv Chris Brogan…

    Flickr’s got all kinds of tool uses: it builds visual connectivity to people you’ve yet to meet. You can post everything from screen caps to presentations to pictures of the kids on there. You can draw pictures, get them annotated, and then share the work to let others build even further.

    Flickr can be a conversation, like we had, or it can be a great way to share a mood or a moment. Flickr is swell for capturing conferences in a way that watching video rarely manages. (Flickr TIED to video would be killer, such that if I saw a snap from a certain part of an event, I could click it and get the movie footage from that same rough time frame… but I digress).

    I use Flickr to reach out to people I haven’t yet connected with in other ways, because even without their email, I can leave them a Flickr mail, and let them know Im’ reaching out.

    And btw, you’re right: Make it Stick is a great book. : )

  • http://noklog.com Kosso

    I too love flickr ;) – I like sending SL snapshots there too. Well CC, old chap – here’s alook at something else I just knocked up yesterday, based upon a site you know already ;) – It’s a start, and will soon have all the nifty bits and bobs from tha ‘HUD ;)

    http://noklog.com/

    :) Works great on those Nokia N91’s ;)

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