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Online photo sharing and publishing sites have given rise to interesting uses. These get especially interesting when these sites (i.e., Flickr):

1) grow to a significant size
2) add social networking capability
3) introduce content aggregation (using tags)
4) add capability to annotate photos

One of most attention grabbing so far is the "What's in your bag?" initiative on Flickr.

See what's in Joi's bag (photo by Joi Ito). As many of these photos, this is gadget-packet. Take a look - it has 4 mobile phones, 2 iPods, external Firewire drive and a Mac.

In "What's in your bag?" you can see hundreds of photos from different people, tagged with a tag 'whatsinyourbag' and letting viewers to peek into their bags and see what others are carrying around. Many of these photos have been annotated by adding comments to different items you can see there.

Note #1:
The tags have mutated and to see all the photos related to this topic you may want to look at the following Flickr tags - whatsinyourbag, whatsinmybag and whatisinyourbag.

Note #2:
It would be useful to have more intelligent annotations. Currently Flickr allows you to say 'this rectangle has a text "bla bla bla" attached'. What I'd like to see is some more info like 'this rectangle pictures an object "Mac PC"' and the annotation system to understand that a Mac is a PC and a computer.

So you could ask the annotation search engine "show me all the photos with computers in them" and get Mac, Intel and all other objects which qualify as a computer. Related: [rdfweb-dev] why wordnet is cool...

Very entertaining...