The Next Generation of Tagging: Searching and Discovering a Better User Experience
Presented by Kakul Srivastava (Director of Product Management, Flickr ). Kakul Srivastava, director of product management of the popular photo-sharing community Flickr, will discuss enhancing the user experience through tagging and geotagging.
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Some interesting points about how tagging scales, and the additional application of that meta-data when it does. The question period was awful, because apparently there were no mics available. I was left with the feeling that the presenter could have told us much more than she did.
The scale of Flickr is impressive as is the community engagement. What isn't clear to me that people are actually deriving value from all the tagging that is going on yet.
Tagging is obviously a much bigger subject than I had thought about before today. I'm anxious to participate in flickr - but more from a personal focus - not sure how to make this a part of a business site.
I agree with what Dave Brennan said. It felt a bit like tagging for the sake of tagging.
Learned a lot about Flickr (and saw some beautiful pix) but I think Kakul has a lot more knowledge that she could have shared on parsing tags, issues of scaling, etc. On the good side, her presentation left me hungry to spend more energy thinking about tagging possibilities. On the down side, her presentation left me hungry...
Flickr is fascinating and there were some great stats. But this speaker was VERY slow. Make the point faster and move on, you will cover twice the ground!
It makes me think the possibilities of using the tags are infinite, what we need to figure out now is how to monetize it / make it useful, usable and fully automatic. Something tells me GeoTagging could be taken to the next level - and Fireball could put it to work too.
Great presentation, very informative. It actually has inspired me to use flickr, as I've sort of stayed away from it in the past.