All posts tagged programmatic

I have been formulating an idea over the past few months around using flickr’s search/tag system to create a browse-by-relevance experience. Meaning that the starting point for the user’s experience is an image of theirs, and from there they may choose to visualize other flickr users’ images that share the same tags/set/image names. So if I’m in my Africa set and I’m looking at “lion1.jpg” I can decide to flip a switch and see other images that get returned when a search for “Africa” + “Lion” is run. This idea stems from an idea I had a while back for “capture-collective.com” – what was supposed to be a photo critique/continuing education experience – where users were given an assignment (i.e. “black and white portraiture”) and they could share their photos while receiving and giving critiques on other’s photos in one place. Shortly after I formulated that idea flickr hit the scene in a big way and their “flickr groups” kind of occupied the same conceptual space capture-collective.com did. One problem that has been nagging me all these years is that the interface to view your flickr images doesn’t transition well when I want to view other similar images. As flickr currently exists, I have to leave my viewing experience and run a search. No good. I want it all in one place.