Flickr released two things that proves they are going meta on us. Flickr Notes allows annotation of photos for telling stories:
One thing that is not public anywhere yet is that we’re committed to helping to develop and supporting a standard for annotation, based on Greg Elin’s Fotonotes stuff. (Once there is something to be compatible with, Flickr will be 100% ‘Fotonotes R/W’ (read/write) compatible.) The JPEG format allows for 8 headers (of 64k each!) and EXIF is the only real respected standard right now, but once it’s possible for people to upload photos with Fotonotes headers into Flickr we’ll display the notes - and if you want to export a jpeg from Flickr with the notes intact you’ll be able to do that too.
Flickr Tags allow easy assignment of even more metadata to images. Its a rip-off from one M2M guestblogger to another, Josh Schachter’s del.icio.us social bookmarking tool. Portable links can be used for queries, just replace cat with what you are looking for: flickr.com/photos/tags/cat.
Somewhat related, Adam finds a GPS-enabled photoblog for telling trippy stories.
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