November 22, 2007
Flickr Places
My Flickr usage has tailed off recently for some reason, both in terms of uploading photos and checking friends' photos - probably as a result of FaceCrack's insidious influence. But the new Places feature on Flickr is awesome. A great example of extracting additional value from existing data (and a lot better than Platial's Today Nearby, which seems to be defunct now anyway.) I wonder if Marc Davies has influenced Flickr Places's development (it seems to dovetail nicely into some of Yahoo! Research Berkeley's projects, such as Zurfer.)
This is where I was born.
This is where I work.
This is where I live.
This is where I'm going.
Two features that I'd like to see: the ability to append locations to my profile; the ability to search on sub-locations (i.e. 'Finsbury Park' within 'London'.)


