Ali’s Blog

Thanks to colleague Jedd who alerted us all to this great new application. New Flickr photo browser TagGalaxy uses tags to develop its own “tag-o-verse” using a planet metaphor. Type in a tag you’re interested in, and using the tags people have used when loading their Flickr photos TagGalaxy will instantly assemble a system of planets that represent those tags. Click on a planet to browse and zoom photos. For example, enter “New Zealand” and you get a mini planetary system of South Island, Mountains, Water, Clouds, NZ, Landscape and Lake (hah, no North Island for all you Aucklanders who think the country ends at the Bombay Hills!).

Click on any of the “planets” and you are taken to a globe with all the photos tagged with that phrase.

I love the way that this enables to put photos into some sort of context by linking connected tags- and how you can move the planets round and rotate them.

These photos (taken from Google Images) do not do this justice- try it out. It is wonderful.

Tags: New Zealand, TagGalaxy