Flickrball

This is very neat: Flickrball is a Web 2.0 game. It combines the Flickr API, some nice DOM Scripting and six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

It really showcases the small-world network nature of sites like Flickr. It begins with a selection of photographs tagged with a word, say "Kevin". You then have to click through to find photographs tagged with other words until you get to one tagged with another word, like "Bacon".

I defy you to come up with faster path than this one of mine, with a total of 11 clicks:

kevin > drinking > party > kitchen > breakfast > bacon

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 9:26pm

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Thanks to the magic of machine tags, you can illustrate this post by tagging a picture on Flickr with:

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