SnapDragon Javascript powered Seadragon

SnapDragon is a Flickr tag explorer from Microsoft Live Labs.

It's a concept about interactive and keyword based navigation. Search a given keyword will give you photos. Click on a picture will give new keyword... and etc.

Click a word to see related images.
Click an image to see its tags.
Click an image's title to go to its Flickr page.
Click the background to go back up the chain.
Drag to pan, scroll-wheel to zoom.
Or just hit the spacebar and enjoy.

It's nice and well done.

Google Image Swirl, keywords based image clustering

Google have launch a new service. A web clustering exploration. The techno is based on keyword. All the image that share a similar keyword are linked. The interface is nice and powered by flash. But the keywords approach show rapidly is limit, the image do not share at all visual content (sometimes).

For exemple type Paris (you will find Paris hilton and Paris city photos....)

On the following experiment you see that I have typed 'Paris'. I have navigate through Paris Hilton clusters and finally I have found a architectural content... (From Paris city, Sainte Chapelle ).

So the approach is nice, but based on keywords seems to be very limited. But is allow to have a nice filtering of information.