I was given an invite to the image bookmarking site Ffffound! about a week ago and I can definitely say I’m a little addicted. Ffffound! is currently still in private beta but you can still catch the spillover of new and popular images and subscribe to an “everyone” feed.

There’s already a very eclectic mix of images on the site: the standard web forwarded animated GIFs, countless examples of Modernist design ephemera, cheesecake photos past and present, hot new graphic design, photography, and other visual art. For a website originating from Japan, it is also highly Western and english-language in focus. I hope that aspect will get better when the site is eventually open to the public.

Ffffound! isn’t so much a social networking site but it does have some small hooks like “followers” and “following” between members but these are much more of an automated thing based on how your taste in images tracks versus other member’s taste.