Thomas Hawk makes a good point about Flickr image search being way better than that from Google or Yahoo!
Does Middle America know to go to Flickr and do a search for birthdaycake and then to change the view to sort by interestingness to get some kick ass photos of birthday cakes for the homemade card that you are going to make for Aunt Betty? (beachycat, that’s a kick ass photo of those candles). Of course not. But they do know to go to Yahoo! image search and type in Birthday Cake and find an image. And they do know that if all of the photos of Birthday cakes on Yahoo Image Search suck (which they all do by the way) that they can go to Google Image Search and search for birthday cakes there (and they still suck).
BUT, he goes on to say he thought about creating his own Web2.0 stock photography company. Here’s the thing, we have one right there in Flickr, you don’t need another company. Flickr just need to add that functionality to their own system.
At present there is a large, tagged, ranked database of great photography. IP rights are applied at varying degrees. How hard would it be to add another layer where you can mark an image so you can only get full size if you pay for it? Family; tick, Friends; tick; Customer; tick. Also it wouldn’t be too tricky to have an option where other sizes are watermarked even.
Many of the people I talk to who use Flickr have the images on Alemy, etc. There could be some mega revenue in there, why are they focussing on the consumer aspects when they could commercialise the images for those who want it?
Flickr could be a kick-ass stock photography library.
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Flickr, Why Not Stock Photography?
Thomas Hawk makes a good point about Flickr image search being way better than that from Google or Yahoo!
BUT, he goes on to say he thought about creating his own Web2.0 stock photography company. Here’s the thing, we have one right there in Flickr, you don’t need another company. Flickr just need to add that functionality to their own system.
At present there is a large, tagged, ranked database of great photography. IP rights are applied at varying degrees. How hard would it be to add another layer where you can mark an image so you can only get full size if you pay for it? Family; tick, Friends; tick; Customer; tick. Also it wouldn’t be too tricky to have an option where other sizes are watermarked even.
Many of the people I talk to who use Flickr have the images on Alemy, etc. There could be some mega revenue in there, why are they focussing on the consumer aspects when they could commercialise the images for those who want it?
Flickr could be a kick-ass stock photography library.
Technorati Tags: flickr, stock, photographs, photography, news