Flickr Eco-system

You know that a service or technology has made it into the mainstream when there is vibrant and active eco-system surrounding it.

It seems that every time I look into it someone has built something new to enhance, support or simply have fun with Flickr.

This week there has been three:

• Localize Bookmarlet is a geotagging enhancement that allows you to geotag your photos really, really easily. Geotagging is great for remembering where something happened. See the link in the description in this picture of Jonathan Skimming for an example.
• Flickr Inspector is a piece of fun. It shows the characteristics of a particular Flickr user; groups, sets, favourites, etc. It then gives the flickr user a score because people love to be able to give themselves a score. Here’s mine.
• Profile Widget is doing a similar thing to Flickr Inspector but this time it’s using the information available to create a nice banner for either a user or a group.

It’s these kind of enhancements that make people passionate users of a service and creates a self feeding eco-system. As other Web 2.0 type services make it to this point we are in for a very interesting future.

Tags: Localize Bookmarklet, Flickr Inspector, Profile Widget, Flickr