Flickr Adds People Tagging

Oct 22, 2009 at 9:30am ET by Barry Schwartz

Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, has added Facebook-like people tagging. The purpose behind people tagging is to easily tell people when you upload a picture that includes them. In short, it is a fun way to make your pictures more social and have discussions around your photos. Let me show you how it works.

For example, the picture I took of Danny Sullivan with (former Microsoft’s) Kevin Johnson at a past SMX conference was a nice photo of Danny to tag. I click on the “add person” link on the right side of the page and begin entering in Danny’s name. Since Danny is a contact of mine in Facebook, I can easily add him as a person on this photo.

You then click on the little square on the right side of Danny’s name, which brings up a box on the photo. You then resize the box and place the box around Danny’s face. I believe as soon as I set this, Danny would get a notification that he has been tagged.

Then I tried to add Kevin Johnson, who is not a contact of mine on Flickr, which gave me this option:

If you tag a private photo, that person you tag on that photo will have access to see the picture, no matter what privacy options you have set. For more details, see the links below:

Who can add you to a photo: http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/photospeople/

Who can add people to your photos: http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/photoprivacy/

To find out how to remove someone from your photos, check out the FAQs: http://www.flickr.com/help/people/

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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