Part of Clear Left’s professionally run package of facilities at D.Construct was a back-network, an event intranet in-a-way. Unfortunately I was a bit slow getting my info in but amusingly you can see my personal profile page here. Ok nothing very special you may think but look closely and there are two pictures of me (OK one of the back of my head) at the bottom of the page. I didn’t add these, in fact I didn’t even remember them being taken.
The social network example of this is the photographers tagged them as containing me and uploaded them to flickr. The back-network system when showing my profile page checks flickr for photo’s which have me (and d.construct) in the tags and then present them at the bottom of the page. Not rocket-science I know, just a flavour of where we’re all heading.
P.S. Even more amusing is someone’s comment added to the flickr original: “Former Multimap employees, still arguing about its future.”