Saturday, February 14, 2009

Week 2: Flickr, del.icio.us and tagging

I'd like to know how the people who create these Web technologies come up with the names - flickr for photos and delicious for bookmarking - huh??

I can see how flickr could be useful for many people - for me, not so much other than browsing through the sometimes spectacular and other times stupid photos that people take. I really got a laugh-out-loud reaction from this photo that was taken on my birthday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chauss513/2437736394/ - it kinda reminded me of when i was a kid and played golf with all the toads after the rain - but of course I wouldn't dare do such a cruel and nasty thing to one of God's creatures today!

...and of course I couldn't look through flickr without adding this photo that unsurprisingly belongs to the '4eva cute set': http://www.flickr.com/photos/smileona/3097221561/

As for delicious - I guess it's main attraction is its portability - but honestly, aren't all things able to be found by a good reference librarian?

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