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January 29, 2010
Flickr Blog: Fence Friday.Twitter has #followfriday. If I were ever to rebuild Flickr from the ground up, I’d collapse the distinction between tags and groups for thematic collaboration. Explicit grouping is useful only when you need to create a sense of place, a trick most easily accomplished in virtual environment by articulating a membership, and a history. Collaboration does not need place, it needs energy.
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(Aside collaboration, easy group forming, flickr, groups, twitter)
Are you saying you would do away with Groups as their own kind of entity, possibly building a Groups-like feature using tags?
Interestingly, Status.net chose to do the exact opposite of this. They added a “!” syntax for groups, rather than build a group-like functionality around the already existing “#” norm.