Flickr and libraries

Thanks to "hot tipper" Fiona for this article on uses for flickr in a variety of library and educational settings.

The UWB/CCC Campus Library has a flickr tour - I hope to do some new photos this summer!

Flickr blog

This companion blog to the photo organization and sharing site Flickr posts selections from the site, provides commentary on changing photo formats and techniques (see the recent post on the death of Polaroid film), and lists events and meet-ups with flickr members.

The UWB/CCC Campus Library has a photoset on Flickr, and I am curious to see how courses and students may use Flickr - it seems like a perfect tool for studio art students, photography students, and as a way to visually track a group project, video, play, etc.

Mapping and tracking web 2.0 tool usage

I heard of WikipediaVision (beta) from a snippet in the Feb 2008 edition of College & Research Libraries News, and while that tool has potential, it led me to even more 2.0 tool/Google maps mashup applications that I found to be more impressive (mainly just because they're further into their development).

Check them out to see in (almost) real-time the usage and content people are contributing:

• FlickrVision 3D
  
• TwitterVision - also in 3D version and can be set up to pull from Facebook "twitter" messages.
  
• SpinVisionTV - pulls from YouTube postings

Caveats: Only certain user's activities will be reflected in these tools, depending on user information made public and other functions of the selected tools.