I think there are 3 factors for an application that "gets it".
- Is it easy to get started with (Flickr does not have a complex account creation process)?
- Does it reflect how people do things in the real world, rather than try and change them into your way of working (Flickr reflects peoples desire to share photos)?
- Does it make people more efficient in the way they do things (Flickr allows photos to be tagged, so they can be searched easily).
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I still maintain that despite the web 2.0 hype, manual tagging is a fundamentally unnatural process, and I'm skeptical that it will ever go mainstream.
I agree it probably doesn't reflect how people do things currently. In the physical world, I would probably bookmark pages in physical photo albums. Maybe it would be better to reflect this and start with a "bookmark page" facility (rather than image tags), and then use technology to make you more efficient by making it searchable.
However, I'm sure in 10-20 years time, image recognition technology will have advanced to the point where you could have a picture and from that automatically recognise who is in it and index it.
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