62 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Stewart Butterfield on Flickr - "There're definitely people who feel alright about making their photos public and having it available to other people in the context of Flickr but who feel uncomfortable about them showing up in other places like that". [via] #
jkottke : Great interview with Stewart about Flickr - "Capturing the creative energy of the hive can be scary. It requires giving up some control, and eliminating lock-in as a strategy."
Milo Vermeulen : O'Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr - O'Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr [via] [via]
Andy Baio : O'Reilly interview with Flickr's Stewart Butterfield - growth stats, API ideas, and coming out of beta [via] [via]
plasticbag : Stewart Butterfield interviewed by the O'Reilly network about Flickr, metadata, social software and tagging... - "When you're doing it for yourself, it's like a chore, its drudgery. When you're doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger."
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63 month ago
Andy Baio : Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later - unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts
plasticbag : Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable? - The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion...
ricmac : Metafilter DoesTags - It's a tagalicious blog world right now... glad to see "ART" is the biggest tag on Metafilter. (via waxy.org)
cameron : Metafilter | Tags - Metafilter gets categorizionized
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plasticbag : Big news of the day is Technorati's new implementation of tags and hooks into del.icio.us and Flickr - Don't know what I think about this one yet - haven't quite digested it. I think its success basically depends on SixApart moving towards something like a default tagging rather than categories interface for MT...
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65 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph writes about deli.cio.us for XML.com - Del.icio.us and tag-based structures like Flickr are still interesting the hell out of me - mainly because of the possibility of the sudden creation of a completely new layer of information worth mining and manipulating.
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plasticbag : Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata (pdf) - This is nice - a paper on using particular parts of speech from web pages about artists to create a metric of artist similarity. Think about the stuf you could use delicious tags to do!
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plasticbag : The RSS weblog's summary of add-ons, plug-ins and toys that interact with del.icio.us - Includes Konfabulator, Wetaste.com, Foxylicious, sid.vicio.us (did not understand this one) and several others
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