Radar For iPhone Finds Flickr Support

Heres an idea: If you're looking to build up your social site's user base, add support for a popular, similarly focused (but not directly competitive) social site to your network's iPhone application. It may sound crazy (who wants to promote someone else's brand?), but that's exactly what Radar , a social network for sharing cameraphone images and videos, is doing. This morning, Radar has released an update to their iPhone application which adds Flickr support to the mix. Though Radar and Flickr are quite similar in that they're both intended as repositories for your photographs, their finer focus differs just enough for this idea to work. Flickr is generally used for collections of high resolution images, with the comments area serving as a grounds for conversations that stretch on indefinitely. Radar, on the other hand, is more for spur-of-the-moment, heres-what-I'm-doing-right-now type stuff.