Thing #6: Some Flickr Fun

Like many Web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third-party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images. Here is a simple one that I put together very quickly using Bookr:

Here are a couple of other mashups that are interesting:

• Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public images in Flickr that match a specific colour
  
• Montager - creates a photo mosaic from Flickr images

Discover more mashups, web applications, and Flickr tools. Please share any other links to lists of Flickr mashups and tools either here in the comments section, or on your own blog.

Discovery Exercise:

Your discovery exercise for this "thing" is to:

1. Explore some of the Flickr mashups and 3rd-party tools that are out there;

2. Create a blog post about one that intrigues you.

So have some fun discovering and exploring some neat little apps.

*Mashup note: Wikipedia offers some great articles that explain mashups. Basically they are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and combine it with another (like a map).