Flickr's Mobile Site Gets Smarter: Shows Photos Taken Nearby
Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing site, just released a nice update of its mobile site. If you have an Android phone or an iPhone (updated to the 3.0 firmware), you can now see images that were taken close to your current location. The new mobile site makes good use of some of the new APIs in the iPhone 3.0 update. Specifically, it looks like Flickr's mobile site now hooks into Apple's Core Location service right from Safari. Typically, developers could only access this from their own, native apps, but now, web apps are also able to access location data.
It's All About Geotagging
Flickr, which hosts a rapidly increasing number of photos, is increasingly using location as a means to organize photos. Earlier this year, for example, the company announced that it now hosts over 100 million geotagged photos and in order to make this data more accessible, Flickr also unveiled a new 'nearby' page on its web site, which displays a map with images that were taken close to another photo.
Flickr's mobile site is also becoming an increasingly valuable asset to the company. Last December, Flickr announced that traffic to the mobile site had increased by more than 50% over the last year, and it has made various smaller updates to the site since then. As smartphones become increasingly better at taking pictures and surfing the web, it is good to see that Flickr is bringing these two worlds together nicely on its mobile site.
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Wow, that's cool, though I guess that doesn't work on the n96 since the browser doesn't support it.
That is cool. Finally a common app with geo-tagging. In a sense its also freaky that some stranger near your home can see you and locate you. Stuff for a Hollywood stalking thriller.
Does anyone know this: what if you don't have an iphone but put a picture on Flickr- does it still do the geo on the picture, and still be "near by" for mobile users?
that is way cool
This kind of location awareness will be the future of not only search and discovery services, but even ad-based and paid content, giving even more value to viewers and readers alike. As of now, Apple's Core Location is the prime example of this ability. And it wont stop there, location awareness of this kind is already implemented in the coming versions of Firefox and Chrome (correct me if I'm wrong).
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