We Heart It

We Heart It is a social bookmarking tool for pictures and videos, kinda a specialized version of Delicious that displays the images as thumbnails directly. The whole system is tags based which means that every user who adds images or videos should make sure to add at least one tag to his finding. The site can be explored by clicking on tags in the tag cloud or by clicking on a avatar to discover the findings of a specific user.

Every registered user can add tags to images and take a look at the users who have hearted the image already. A click on an image opens a detailed view of it that includes a link to the source and an opportunity to leave a comment. The thing that’s missing is definitely a site search. A user can only click on the popular tags but perform no search for a certain tag on his own.

The site is offering a bookmarklet that can be used to add images to We Heart It. The bookmarklet is working in Firefox and Opera but not Internet Explorer. It works by pressing it when you are on a page with an image that you want to add to the website. The I Heart It symbol appears next to the image and it is added by pressing it again.

I think it’s a nice website for exploring images and finding sources for new images. I personally would not want to use it to store - or how they say bookmark - images that I like.