Meet Lorenzo Vest, arrested for selling obscene materials to high school students in Montgomery, Indiana on May 28, 1940. He’s among the many criminals on found photographs belonging to Flickr member Least Wanted, for mostly petty crimes and misdemeanors. Some of them are fantastic.

   If you were worried that your remaining Pro Account Gifts were going to expire tomorrow night, fear not. We’re extending the deadline to July 15. Photos from lomokev and drp

You heard it here first! The artisans in the Yahoo Search atelier have been toiling away on a great new Yahoo Search product, My Web 2.0, and it is going into limited beta today. It’s the long rumored and greatly anticipated Social Search: better search through people you trust! And it has all the ingredients for a healthy Web 2.0 experience, including:

• Control what you see (and want to see) by your social network
• Open APIs for developers to mess with
• RSS feeds for pulling out the stuff you’re interested in

And of course:

• You can tag more than a kid with ADD on a third grade playground (including location, time and people tagging)

I am personally excited about this launch. I have always loved the web for enabling people to share, collaborate and form communities that matter to them. Apply this to search, and you have an incredibly powerful tool that enables you to search in concert with people you trust. The vision for Yahoo Search is to to enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge, and My Web 2.0 gets us sneakernetting towards the Emerald City.

The product has been in development for a long time by a crack team who you will be meeting soon in the cocktail party better known as the MyWeb Blog. Flickr’s brain trust has contributed (and will be contributing more!) to the effort.

Remember that this is an early version, and so we’d like to pre-empt your desire to upbraid us for things that are already in the works. Uncle!

• The ability to "bookmark" people (without becoming contacts in the system)
• Groups, where you can, say, share links with just your work group, or friends interested in Judy Garland collectibles
• Discussions/comments, where you can talk about each link
• Easier, more intuitive invite process. We know it’s currently lame.

You can read more about My Web 2.0 on the FAQ, and in the the discussion area, you can make suggestions, report bugs and post philosophical tracts about the semantic web. Also, get the bookmarklet here.

We wanted to make sure Flickr members got a chance to get in first as it is a limited beta, which means after we’ve got a certain number of beta testers, we must close it off to new users. So if you want to check it out, sign up right away or you’ll be known as a beta test b-lister and will have to wear one of these. Don’t let it happen to you.

                    The Unofficial Flickr Badge Maker is really taking off.

    127 trucks from Truckstop Holsloot Bonus links: Back of Truck, wide right turn

Taken in Parc Guell, by Rija.

And while we’re here, why not look at some more cool stuff, built offsite by Friends of Flickr.

• Reblog of Flickr Street Art

• Mosaic Maker (Hey! What’s that E doing there?)

• Unofficial Badge Maker

• AudioFlickrScrobbler

    From Supercapacity

Some photos we like by some of Flickr’s Finest. And here are a bunch of links of fun things going on in Flickr, found by Heather.

• Pisa Pushing is apparently a sport that takes place in Pisa, Italy, with the famous tilting tower.

• Urban Camping in Times Square. They weren’t kicked out by the cops until dawn, though 10 cops came to talk to them.

• Kite Aerial Photography. Really amazing stuff, from people who mount cameras on their kites and take photos from the sky.

A few speaking engagements for the Flickr gang and other Flickr happenings: 6/ 27 George Oates, Digital Media Outlook, Munich 6/27 SV Flickr Meet 7/7 SFlickr Meet 7/9 San Francisco Flickr Foray* 7/15 Stewart Butterfield, WebVisions 2005, Portland 7/30 Heather Champ, BlogHer, Santa Clara 8/2 Flickr at the San Francisco Apple Store* If you have an upcoming Flickr event in your town, list it on Upcoming.org and let us know so we can help spread the word. * Rescheduled date TBA.

“Might as well doll it up.”  From the jacksons