Flickr has been going through a few growing pains of late. Their move to Yahoo! and the massive increase in users has resulted in a bit of a sluggish user experience (well for me at least).

But - flickr being the awesomeness that they are have redeemed themselves by releasing two new features:

1. clustering - this is the new, better way to explore photos through tags. You can still use tags like normal - like the ocean tag - but now flickr will return a cluster of relatated tags….like ocean sea sand or ocean sunset. You get the idea I’m sure.
2. interestingness - this I like a lot! This is like PageRank but for photos. If photos are real popular and have many hits/comments/fav’s then they’re likely to make it onto the interestingness page. Have a look at the explore page if you would like to see other ways to see interesting photos.

Good job flickr peeps! I’m loving it more and more!

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