I found a tool from Airtight Interactive that lets you explore Flickr's folksonomy through a related tag browser. It offers a visual, interactive way to navigate and discover connected keywords within the photo-sharing community.
I'm checking out Flickr's new exploration tools, including interestingness rankings, tag clusters, and curated sets. These features offer a new way to navigate the site's collection by highlighting community-favorite photos and emerging visual trends.
Flickr updated its service tiers to offer free users 20 MB of monthly uploads and a 200-photo display limit. They also reduced the price of Flickr Pro accounts, making the premium features more accessible to photographers.
I found Canvascape, an impressive first-person shooter built using the Firefox 1.5 canvas tag. It demonstrates textured 3D environments rendered natively in the browser, highlighting the potential for early web gaming using new standards.
I found Taglines from Yahoo Research, an interactive timeline visualizing the evolution of Flickr tags. It offers a fascinating look at how popular topics and social metadata trends shifted across the platform over time.
I discuss the early implications of the rel=nofollow tag, specifically how webloggers might monetize their sites by charging fees to remove the tag and pass along valuable PageRank to external links.