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A new Flickr? - with an emphasis on mobile posting

Could this, radar.net, be the new flickr. It seems to be a beta version of a photo sharing website with an emphasis on mobile posting. I actually really like the site design. Its dramatic and pretty intuitive. Unlike flickr, which has always put an emphasis on searching for pictures, this site seems to put more of an emphasis on sharing pictures from your mobile phone with friends. It allows you to invite friends by email with a special code. But under their privacy settings, they specify that no one can find you on radar unless they are invited, which is interesting since most social networking websites put an emphasis on being able to find friends through the site. In that vain, they have no search functions, further emphasizing that this is not a place to find media either (I wonder how this will work in the long run).

They have commenting functionality but no tagging functionality (is tagging really dead?) And they also neglected to include the ability to upload from your computer, which actually may be smart since it puts the site in a special niche to only be used with your camera phone. I have signed up but haven't used it yet. I think I probably will. Very interesting, we'll see what happens.

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While I don't think radar.net will be the new flickr, I do think its a great app - to an extent. There does need to be more organization, aside from temporal... an so tagging could help deal with that... but yea, in an altogether unrelated rant, tagging is weaksauce.

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