ffffound nothing

Today I had a look through the photos on We Heart It (yes I am now obsessed with that site) and when I clicked on the source of one of the images it took me to an other similar style of web site. It is called ffffound and has an amazing amount of great images. So I had a look around and it was built on a tag system as well, all up, very similar to We Heart It but a slightly different style. So I thought I'd register. But no. It is built on an invitation only register system. So unless I have some friends that has invitations to give out I can not become a member of this site. This really annoyed me and the fact that not just anyone could become a member, made the whole thing so much more attractive. Then it made me think. In the lecture on Web 2.0 we talked about user based information. How web sites like Amazon.com started a revolutionary concept through their user based rating system, where books that had been forgotten long ago all of a sudden became bestseller again. Now, this way of rating is built on the fact that the more users there is, the more value it gets.
Now, ffffound do not care about that, even though it will be more logically tagged images, and a broader range of tags and images, with a larger members group. They value the mystery around the web site and the human nature to want what we can not have, more then having a large quantity of material.
These are some of the images I've found on ffffound, and if anyone have an invitation to the site, I would love to have one. I'm not desperate or anything. Or. Hm.

I [heart] We Heart It

This is amazing. When studying graphic design it is vital to have a source of good inspiration. And here it is. We Heart It .com is a web site that lets you show other people what you love. this basically means that it is a mega source of inspirational thing that every one is creating and everyone can be a part of. Such an amazing idea. This is how it is explained on the website:

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get visual inspiration from what's best in the web

1 bookmark images and videos from any website with one button

2 see what everyone is 'hearting' and heart it too

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It works with the help of bookmarks. You drag this symbol up on your bookmarks bar and then when you find something out on the Internet that you want to heart, you press the symbol and it allows you to heart it.

So for example, if i found this image I simply click on on my bookmarks bar.

And then it finds the object and makes a frame around it which allows you to add it to your heart (click on the images to make them bigger).


Then it opens a new tab with you chosen picture in you We Heart It account.

So simple and so smart!

So join, and heart. Now.