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Simple Web 2.0 Guideline: Be Like Flickr
By Joseph Hunkins at December 24, 2007 0 CommentsFlickr has been my favorite Web 2.0 application for some time, and I think it’s for a very good reason: Flickr is a fundamentally enabling application. Initially, I just used the (superb) photo uploader to send all my vacation and family pix online for easy storage. That soon evolved into better labelling, categorizing, and searching for photos, as well as the ability to share them with friends and family, even restricting access as needed. Flickr makes all this fairly easy, and as such sets what I’d say is *the* critical Web 2.0 guideline - make it simple!
My favorite feature of Flickr has come about fairly recently. It is the ability to connect your blog to Flickr and then quickly post Flickr photos to your blog along with a blog post for the photo that you can write from within Flickr - i.e. you don’t have to do a separate blog logon and blogging session to get the job done. This really rocks because, again, it is *simple*. Sure, it’s not a big deal to copy images and upload them separately to blogs, but I think with each step comes a cost in terms of your time and more importantly your motivation to get the job done.
Flickr makes it almost seamless to upload, categorize, and blog an image in the matter of a few minutes. That’s beautiful, and that is a Web 2.0 standard I’d love to see everywhere.
