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August 01, 2005

Interestingness and Clustering

Over on the FlickrBlog, I just posted about some cool new features which help you surf through the giant waves of photos that are getting uploaded to Flickr: 'interestingness', a 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: love, terror, nose, bush, cameraphone.

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 read more on the Flickr blog).

Stewart Butterfield

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Comments

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...

Posted by: Stephen Duncan Jr | August 2, 2005 02:01 AM

Very nice features indeed !

Posted by: Guillaume | August 2, 2005 06:23 AM

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?

Posted by: jim willis | August 2, 2005 01:46 PM

Jim: yep, it will be added to our APIs.

Posted by: Stewart Butterfield | August 3, 2005 03:28 PM

which blog have more features? which one do you advice?

Posted by: Designer | December 12, 2005 03:11 PM