Interestingness and Clustering
- Posted August 1st, 2005 at 9:07 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
Over on the
you surf through the giant waves of photos that are getting uploaded to
Flickr: ‘
way of discovering what Flickr users are paying attention to — and
therefore, because our users have such good taste, what’s good :) — and
‘clustering’ a way of delving deeper into tags you’re interested in.
It’s easier to show than to tell, so here are some examples:
Both interestingness and clustering rely a lot on what people are
doing, whether it’s with the photos they like, or the tags they are
using. You can think about it as people-powered searching. Check it out
on Flickr’s new explore page
(or
Stewart Butterfield
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That’s some really impressive stuff!
However, “interestingness” would at lot more useful to me if you could find some way to provide an RSS feed of the recent interesting photos…
Very nice features indeed !
I don’t think the Flickr blog supports comments or i’d have posted this over there. Can we expect to see a webservice API for the interestingness feature anytime soon?
Jim: yep, it will be added to our APIs.
which blog have more features? which one do you advice?