Now i'm in. Seems one of the tricks with Flickr is to go in with a theme, idea, project in mind. Thinking today about the project which will need some WWII photos. So I entered 'World War Two'. Got some great results - 27, 643 of them. Like any search facility you sometimes have to be more specific 'World War Two Cars' narrowed it down to 1,133. Each picture is tagged by the 'author'. What was interesting was that many of these tags seemed to have no obvious relevance to the pictures. Hidden meanings below the surface. I believe tags can be added by people to pictures which are not their own as well which would further add hidden depths.
'This picture also belongs to' feature reminded me of the 'Customers who brought this also brought this in Amazon'. The friendship network idea goes to the root of what makes a friend. Why are we friends with someone - partly because we share the same or similar values or interests. This is a great feature and very helpful for finding photos whih have a similar theme, style, emotion etc.
'1930's car' followed by '1930's car man and woman' found only 4 pictures but the first image was spot on - Found_005 by thenimmo. Another interesting one was Johnny and Josephine Road to Ward CO 8_3_1940.
Other interesting features were the comments section and the Creative Commons. The former again extends on the meaning with each reader constructing their own narrative of meaning, which in turn may influence others who can then comment or tag. The Creative Commons is an awesome concept and something I heartily agree with.
For both picture finding and on;line presence I think Flickr is a strong possibility.
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