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.