Thing #6 - Flickr Mash-ups & Third Party Sites

I started looking through some of the Flickr mash-ups pages and was a bit disappointed. The first one I tried was Mappr, but there was a notice that as of 2007, mappr is no longer processing Flickr images on maps. Perhaps because Flickr has its own map feature, one that I might add is more intuitive anyway. Next I tried Montager, the photo mosaic creater. This is a really cool idea, but the site (or perhaps my computer) was frustratingly slow. Also, I couldn't come up with a photo mosaic that was clearly the picture it was supposed to be, and I really wanted to try to make a mosaid of one of my own pictures but didn't see that it was possible. Perhaps I gave up too soon. Finally I tried Flickr Color Pickr, where I was a little bit more satisfied. The site was quick and the little kid in me got a big kick out of picking my favorite colors and quickly finding photos of different things (flowers, graffiti, circles in squares, etc.) As I was playing with that, though, I couldn't get away from wondering - what's the point?