Intrview
February 10th, 2005
O’Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr.
So, partly for those reasons and partly because using the social network you can give people permission to add metadata to your photos, 71 percent of the photos have some kind of human-added metadata that was added in Flickr. That’s extremely high, even compared to software like Adobe Photoshop Album, which is designed from the bottom up to facilitate the adding of metadata. When you’re doing it for yourself, it’s like a chore, its drudgery. When you’re doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger.