Flickr just launched a feature to help you find friends in your gmail, hotmail or yahoomail address book.
It’s great functionality as Flickr is only really fun when your network are all using it - there’s no point in uploading photos if noone is going to leave smart-arsed (or sometimes nice) comments and notes all over them.
They have implemented the functionality well - unlike the spammy Facebook, which defaults everything to “add everyone”, they default each person to “do not add” so you’re much more likely to carefully select who you want to add, rather than just clicking “ok” to add everyone.
It’s great as I’ve just added people that I didn’t even know were on Flickr - it’s a good way of keeping in touch with friends overseas.
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that IS really clever
Seems it can’t distinguish between people that are already my contacts vs people who aren’t? That is a bit clunky.
It could for me… it said there were another 60 people in my gmail contacts, in addition to the 47 I already had setup.