Shoebox

A post by Barb Dybwad points me to Shoebox. I had a bit of trouble defining what this service does, but I will call it an image bookmarks hosting service. The basic idea of the service is to collect and remember URL’s that point to images (image bookmarks). A user can add web-pages from which the service extracts the image URL’s. A user can also add RSS-feeds, such as produced by Flickr. As a RSS-feed is only temporarily, you can add an image from a RSS as permanent. It is also possible to add feeds from webshots itself by specifying a tag or a user.

On the output side one can specify one or more images sets and subscribe to the corresponding RSS-feed. It is really mixing and matching sources to create something new.

More about my definition of the service. It is all about bookmarks, but only a limited set: images, thus image bookmarks. The service does not seem to store the images themselves, hence we talk about bookmarks. The service keeps a record of the image bookmarks a user puts in, hence the hosting. There are no options for searching, browsing or finding image bookmarks added by other users. So there is no aggregation functionality. They might introduce that later. 

tags: microcontent; type; image; service; showbox;