Jacques Out and Live Local Flickr Streams

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Originally uploaded by benbarren.

Damn, Jacques is out for 2 runs in his first innings for Australia on an overwatered pitch, in a late starting Boxing Day Test Match at the MCG. It was a good ribcage ball, dropping to batpad. Anyway, I totally agree with Dave Winer on the benefits of a global Flickr community. However, when your own country (eg Australia) doesn't have a local flickr like photo sharing community to find amazing locations across your continent : The Margaret River in West Australia, Byron Bay NSW, and Red Hill Victoria, that creates a localised opportunity (kottler who some marketers worship i was told ! would call this an old product placed in a new geographic market ;) Im in Shoreham for example, a seaside community 1 hour from Melbourne AUST (next to Flinders on the map), but there is another "Shoreham" on the beach in UK - So in flickr I go to the tag shoreham and I find The Australian + UK Shoreham beaches (as well as people's family photos when they went to Shoreham but being the English, stayed inside and didnt click "private") To generalise behaviour, just like 30% of websearch is commercial, and more than 50% of purchases are done within 25kms of the house (im generalising from my yellowpages experience) I'd similarly think we're all more likely to be interested in pictures with people (we know) and places we (live in / go to) that are often within an 8 hour flight (dave's photos are consistent with this thesis) : and even then they might be locations we knew as children, went to Uni at, etc Dave Winer's kewl flickrset : "It's a Flickr holiday if there ever was one! I'm so glad I'm subscribed to the photo streams of people who are taking pictures all over the world today. Cyrus Farivar in Senegal and the Sudan in Africa. Kathryn, who I "met" through Megnut is in New York City, while Megnut herself is skiing in Vermont. Betsy Devine in Cambridge. Doc Searls is in Marin. Scoble in Silicon Valley. Dan Farber practicing martial arts. And of course Ernie the Attorney is in New Orleans. I have correspondents all over the globe and our connection is through the bits traveling over the network. Never has the vision of Holding Hands in Cyberspace ever seemed so real to me. And every year it gets more and more real." This is definitely a great opportunity to develop downunder in 2006. Feel free to leave comments or email me on this one. Its so obvious maybe its been missed. No-one wants to fly 24 hours (except the Wilsons for a foot massage and elephant ride in a river) OK, back to the cricket...