Social bookmarking has been around for a while. Sites like del.icio.us and Furl have made it easy to take your favorite links from around the Web, tag them to keep them organized, and save them for future reference or share with your friends. FFFFound extends the concept to images. If you see an interesting photograph, a particularly beautiful piece of art, or just an entertaining photo somewhere on the Web, FFFFound allows you to link to it, tag it, and save it to retrieve later or share with the rest of the community.
The service also sports an engine that can recommend images for you based on your previous likes, dislikes, and the way those images have been tagged by the people who found them. Once you've found an image that you like, you can upload it to the service, link to it, tag it, and then share it with others. Once your image is visible, other FFFFound users can save it or flag it as inappropriate. FFFFound's recommendation engine generates similar images that you may like and displays them underneath the image that you uploaded, so if you see another image on the site that you like, you can click through to view more images of the same type.
Most of FFFFound's images are art, photography, and graphic design. FFFFound is currently in private beta, so you can't sign up to share your own images quite yet. Luckily, you can browse the uploaded images of the most recent and active members, and most of the images uploaded are viewable by the public. You'll find images from e-cards, photographs from Flickr, and even corporate logos and odd snapshots from around the Web. FFFFound provides an IE extension and a bookmarklet to make it easier to share images without having to copy and paste links.
With all of the buzz about copyright infringement and content ownership, FFFFound invites copyright holders to contact them if users upload copyrighted material that they'd like removed. FFFFound may have to be more aggressive about this policy when the service emerges from private beta. At the moment, the quality of the images at FFFFound is very high, but that probably has something to do with its limited membership.
FFFFound images range from the beautifully artistic to the offbeat and hilarious. The images on the front page change every time you refresh. At one glance, I saw an antique poster for a Broadway play, gorgeous black-and-white vintage photography, and a digital masterpiece that made a towering rock look like a modern apartment building. There's always something new to see.
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