Flickr Drives To SEMA In Vegas

The appeal of trade shows planted in the middle of the neon sprawl of Las Vegas cannot be enjoyed in person by everyone who may wish to attend. Fortunately Flickr is there to help car enthusiasts indulge in the love.

Flickr has in store for people who love cars. The lad knows what things like "VeilSide" and "JDM" mean, and can drop them into conversation like the members of the trade show in Sin City draws a lot of people, many of whom attend just for the opportunity to drool over the glitzy vehicles on display. And that's where our friends at Flickr, ha ha, enter the picture. Right now they are carrying about 3,800 pictures from SEMA, with plenty of vivid paint jobs and burning chrome gleaming under the bright lights on display. When visiting Flickr's selection of photos tagged with "SEMA," visitors can see the most recent photos on display. A Flickr representative told Murdok these images are being updated by the minute. People can switch views from most recent to most interesting, as tagged by other Flickr users. This would be an example of that "social media" people have seen discussed everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to newly-launched blogs and lots of places in between. One may find, as I did, that the "SEMA" tag has multiple meanings. While plenty of pictures from the trade show have that tag, so do a number of photos of a whirling Turkish dance called sema. That could be confusing to people expecting to see Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.