Flickr

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1 Description
2 History
3 Features
4 References

Description

Flickr is an internet site created as a community online platform centered around the sharing of photos, services, and blogs. It hosts videos, images, and allows users to share personal photos and services. As a user-friendly site, it offers easily accessible features, and blogs, along with the ability to quickly and efficiently interact with downloaded photos and videos.[1] Its primary goals are to help people make photos available to those who matter to them, and to enable new ways of organizing pictures. [2]

History

The idea for Flickr was developed by the Ludicorp company in 2004 and was originally created for a large online multiplayer game called Game Neverending. Later on its focus was as a chat room type site named FlickrLive where users could share online photos, and interact with them. In 2005 the site was taken over by the Yahoo! company.[3]

Features

Photo Downloading Flickr offers users the ability to upload their own personal photos and images as well as other online pictures. The site also gives users the freedom to alter, store, tag, and comment on photos on their own account or on others. [4] Through the use of the application Organizr, users can tag, comment, and manage all photos on the user's account. [5]Flickr photo posts can be tagged, and annotated by the uploader, allowing viewers to located related photos blogs and videos with the help of those tags. That is the basis of the Flickr website. It allows for social networking through the links and tags on photos and videos, similar to Facebook.

Accounts When users want to access Flickr, they can make use of the Free account that is open to all web-users, or the Pro account which is a special membership that requires monthly payments for access to more applications, unlimited photo space and options. Free accounts are allowed 100 MB of image space, and 2 videos. [6]

Organizr Web application that is available to Flickr account holders. With Organizr, photos can be organized, grouped and edited at any time.

Flickr Hive Mind Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users and their contacts and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness. Flickr Hive Mind can also be an effective tool to identify stock photography with licenses that allow non-commercial (and sometimes) commercial use. Finally, Flickr Hive Mind supports authentication to Flickr, allowing visibility of your private and friends' photos as well as enabling your content filtering preferences. Flickr Hive Mind is currently consuming about 5.1 terabytes of network bandwidth per year (not including the photos themselves). [7]