Tag Galaxy
You start off be entering a tag such as a city name, color, or a myriad of other possible tags (I started off with “Tokyo” as it is my favorite city to visit), and once you click “Go”, the magic and fun begin. You are whisked away to what looks to be a star, surrounded by “planets” that represent complementary tags. If you’re happy with your initial search, you can just click the star and you will be zoomed in to a globe that quickly populates with images related to that tag, but if you click on one of the planets, you’ll zoom into a specific set of image results associated with one unique tag. Drilling down to that that sphere brings you to another galaxy cluster centered with a star and even more orbiting planets. You don’t necessary have to view pictures. The visual treats preceding any image browsing are enough to wow you.
Once you have the globe you want filled with pictures, you can rotate it until an image catches your eye. Click it once and it will expand, click it again and it will grow even larger and display the description of the image from Flickr, along with a link to go to that images page on the photo sharing site. Click the “X” in the top right corner to make the image go back to the globe and to let you continue your browsing.
