A search in google last night using the key words “funny stuff” came up with this:
And this:
Why all this google abuse? (not to mention the pain and suffering to the poor Legos.) It was all part of my first real stab at flickr, the new social software network from ludicorp.
My first impression of flickr was that it was a bit too cutesy, but then after having a look around, cutesy became friendly. And last night friendly became fun.
The layout of flickr is bright and a bit too pink (what is it with the pre-teen colour choices?) The defining feature with flickr is the instant messaging and the ability to drag n’ drop images into chats. It really does provide for good jumping off points for fun chats. But we all know that IM chats get old very quickly, so we’ll have to wait and see if this new feature has legs.
As I participated in the chat, I realized that everyone probably had google open in another browser window and were frantically searching for images to drop into the chat. That got me thinking that it was strange that a social network NOT developed by google was so linked to the search engine, and Orkut, built by google, lacked any serious searching capabilities or intigrated search features for bringing outside material into the network (maybe it’s because doing this would then make that outside material the sole property of Orkut under their absurd terms of service.)
Add that one to the growing list of Orkut improvement suggestions. In the meantime, if I see you in flickr, I’ll drop you a jpg.
