Over the weekend I entered a new realm which included sites ffffound and we heart it which are known as social bookmarking sites for photos and images you find and have an interest in all over the interweb.

Its a pretty easy process to get down as you just put the bookmarklet on your browser of choice....find a picture/photo you like....and then let the world know you love it.   Just what little time I have been playing around with it I have found some pretty kool and artistic type images/photos.

Both are free services but ffffound is invite only and not the easiest in the world to get an invite let me tell ya...I got lucky and one of my twitter friends had an extra that they were kool enough to share with me.  One kool think I liked right off the bat was that ffffound has a screensaver you can  download to display images loaded by others as your screensaver.  Kinda nice when I am sitting around doing other stuff to catch a glimpse of some kool images.

Even though ffffound is invite only to join you can still view images loaded by others and the engine will recommend other photos you might be interested in as well.  We Heart It uses tagging with you all know I am a big fan of and both offer rss which is a must in my book.

Check out my profiles here...like I said I just started to they are not loaded yet with visual goodness

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We Heart It

Basically what The Photo Stream does is give you current news stories (not sure what sources they are using) in the form of a photo that kinda relates to the subject.  When you hover over the picture you can either visit the site with the news story or leave a comment on The Photo Stream.

Overall I think it is a kool little spin on getting some news and adding the visual effect so make sure you check it out and just as a side not they also have an rss feed which for someone like me is always a plus plus!

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