Check out the cool PicLens browser exten­sion for Fire­fox or Inter­net Explorer on Win­dows or Mac. It gives you a full screen expe­ri­ence of fly­ing through a pho­to­stream from a vari­ety of web­sites. Sim­ply install the exten­sion and a small “play” but­ton will appear over pic­tures on cer­tain web­sites (such as Flickr, Face­book, etc.). Click on the play but­ton and you’ll see a wall of the images that you can maneu­ver through. It’s very cool. Try it on the first photo of your Flickr con­tacts or on Rita Niland’s pic­tures from the UGame ULearn con­fer­ence, but be sure to use it when I post pic­tures of the amaz­ing DOK and Ams­ter­dam pub­lic libraries next week!

I found this cool lit­tle toy in CuriousLee’s Flickrstream, which is the type of unin­tended con­se­quence I’ve been talk­ing about with groups lately. I’m fas­ci­nated by how an image shar­ing site end up being used for book­mark­ing or knowl­edge exchange. I wish more library data lived out in the rest of the world so that we could see what kinds of unin­tended uses spring up around it.