An interview with flickr's eric costello
An interesting interview about the history of Flickr and the use of tags ...
"User-Driven Development
JJG: You mentioned that the changes in Flickr were driven by the areas where you saw the most user interest…
EC: Yeah, user interest, and also just comprehensibility. People understand a website full of photos better than they understand an innovative chat interface with photo sharing. Power users got what we were doing with Flickr Live and learned to swim pretty quickly, but people like my mom weren’t quite as quick to figure it out.
Also, there’s a huge advantage to the asynchronous nature of Web pages, where I can leave comments on a photo for someone to find at any later date. There’s a huge advantage to that over the synchronicity of the real-time chat, where if you’re not there to enjoy the conversation about a photo at any one specific time, you’ve missed it altogether." continued ... (Via adaptive path)
"User-Driven Development
JJG: You mentioned that the changes in Flickr were driven by the areas where you saw the most user interest…
EC: Yeah, user interest, and also just comprehensibility. People understand a website full of photos better than they understand an innovative chat interface with photo sharing. Power users got what we were doing with Flickr Live and learned to swim pretty quickly, but people like my mom weren’t quite as quick to figure it out.
Also, there’s a huge advantage to the asynchronous nature of Web pages, where I can leave comments on a photo for someone to find at any later date. There’s a huge advantage to that over the synchronicity of the real-time chat, where if you’re not there to enjoy the conversation about a photo at any one specific time, you’ve missed it altogether." continued ... (Via adaptive path)
Composit of Flickr tags.
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