This morning, I noticed a new entry on Flickr's blog saying that they have added 'Collections', i.e. sets of sets. Although I haven't played with it yet (it requires paying for Flickr Pro... which I probably won't do any time soon as I have my own server and software that hosts my pictures), they say that it supports 5 levels of nested collections (I suppose this is reasonable, although it seems a bit arbitrary). This has to be the single most blatantly missing feature that would be required by any power user. At this point, I have my collection of approximately 37,000 digital photos is organized using over 2,100 folders. If I don't have multiple levels of folder organization, it's basically rendered useless for browsing.
In the process of playing with Flickr today, I discovered that the Geo-tagging map search supports Japanese place names (I did a search for 京都), but the map resolution for Japan (both satellite and roads) is so poor that it's basically useless for tagging much below the city level. Google Maps is clearly ahead of Yahoo Maps in this regard. I also discovered that Flickr supports unicode search, but mostly treats Japanese text as a single word, so a group search for "源氏" would not return a group containing "源氏物語" in the title. Didn't do an extensive test, so I don't know if they are at least breaking words at Kana/Kanji boundaries or not.
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