Flickr - Web 2.0 Photo Creations

The first part of our assignment this week was to create three photos relating to concepts of Web 2.0. Following their creation, we then had to use Flickr and add them, along with appropriate tags. Then we were to determine how many other photos were using those same tags and describe our experience using the site. My breakdown for each image is below:

Web2.0 had 80,656, but many of the images I saw did not pertain to the topic, as I would have thought. There were photos of just people’s names, nature, baby and pet photography, and random colour swatches. Personally I feel that this tag could have thousands – hundreds of thousands of related photos, but it seems to be inflated.

PrinciplesofWeb2.0 only had my photo with the tag

Oreilly had 47,669 results that were tagged. Many of those photos again were not similar to what my tag intended. There were a handful that were relevant from conference talks, however.

My second photo also used the tag Web2.0 (80,656 tagged photos)

Social Media had 267,424 photos with the tag, and a lot of what I scrolled through seemed to be relevant, but again, I would say in the manner I meant the tag to be used – the number was inflated with photos that wouldn’t have been relevant.

Networking showed 2,550,953 photos with the tag, and had similar results to the above.

My third photo used the tags Web2.0 (80,656 tagged photos), Tagging, WebTagging, and WebTags.

The Tagging tag produced 10,324,992 results, WebTagging, returned 2 results, and WebTags had 270 related photos.

Again, the tags with a high number seems to be inflated to me. Upon further inspection, I noticed that some of the photos didn’t actually have the words as tags. Instead, they were being returned in the search because of the use of the tag in their description.

I created my Flickr account back in 2005 and only used it briefly – I preferred Photobucket. It wasn’t a site I was completely unfamiliar with, so I did not have any issues uploading to my profile and tagging the photos. A feature they did not have previously, was the various copywrite options, which I liked this time around.