Traditional social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious are great for finding articles and other text that other Web surfers have tagged as interesting.
For the visually oriented, the pickings have been slim. Now, however, a handful of photo-oriented bookmarking sites are emerging to entertain the eye as well as the mind.
Tag That Image: Visual Bookmarking Sites Worth Browsing [Bits Blog]
I haven’t tried FFFFound (no invite for me) and only had a glimpse of what vi.sualize.us can do, most of my experience comes from testing we♥it.
Photo bookmarking, or visual bookmarking, it’s such a clever idea that you think “why haven’t anyone came up with this before?”. Nevertheless it’s a kind of service that’s still on its infancy and has some issues that aren’t solved:
- Browser integration- still no proper extensions are available, vi.sualize.us has a Firefox extension but they could go much further than that (I’m thinking of something as feature rich as the Delicious plugin).
- Current photo communities- how would such a service deal with the Favorites feature in photo communities like Flickr? Some kind of integration (if I’m a Flickr user then “favorite” that photo also) or think of at as a complete replacement? Because I still think I’m doing the same thing when “favoriting” a photo in Flickr/Zooomr or visual bookmarking in one of these services.
Either way I’m very curious to see how visual bookmarking services will evolve, and what others that may appear in the future can add to those already around.
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