Flickr
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Flickr, an image and video hosting website and an online community was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company in February 2004. Initially Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. Some of the key features of Flickr not initially present were tags, marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness etc.
Yahoo! In March 2005 acquired both Ludicorp and Flickr. On May 16, 2006, Flickr updated its services from beta to "gamma".
Statistics
As of October 2009, it claims to host more than 4 billion images. According to the company, as of August 2009, Flickr is hosted on 62 databases across 124 servers, with about 800,000 user accounts per pair of servers.
Features
- After December 2006, upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100MB a month and were removed from Pro Accounts, permitting unlimited uploads for holders of these accounts.
- On April 9, 2008, Flickr began to allow paid subscribers to upload videos, up to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size.
- After March 2, 2009, users can upload and view HD videos.
- Flickr offers two types of accounts: Free and Pro.
- Free account users are allowed to upload 100 MB of images a month and 2 videos. Also, if a free user has more than 200 photos on the site, they will only be able to see the most recent 200 in their photo stream. Free users can also contribute to a maximum of 10 photo pools.
- Pro accounts allow users to upload an unlimited number of images and videos every month. Photos may be placed in up to 60 group pools, and Pro account users receive ad-free browsing and have access to account statistics.
- On Flickr, users can organize images using tags which enable searchers to find images related to particular topics. Flickr also uses tag clouds, which provide access to images tagged with the most popular keywords.
- Flickr also enables users to organize their photos into "sets" or groups of photos that fall under the same heading.
- Flickr also offers a web-service API that enables programmers to create applications that can perform almost any function a user on the Flickr site can do.
- With ‘Organizr’ you can modify tags, descriptions, and set groupings, and to place photos on a world map.
- Flickr partners with Picnik online photo-editing application which has been built into Flickr as a default photo editor.
- Flickr provides both private and public image storage. A photo can be flagged as either public or private. Private images are visible by default only to the account holder or can be marked as viewable by friends and/or family.
- Flickr after November 2006 features a "guest pass" system that allows private photos to be shared with non Flickr members.
- Flickr's functionality includes RSS and Atom feeds and an API that enables independent programmers to expand its services.
- Images can be posted to the user's collection via email attachments, enabling direct uploads from many camera phones and applications with email capabilities.
- Flickr uses the Geo microformat on the pages for over 3 million geotagged images.
- Flickr has third parties partnerships which offer printing of various forms of merchandise, including business cards, photo books, stationery, personalized credit cards, and large-size prints, from companies such as Moo, Blurb, Tiny Prints, Capital One, Imagekind, and QOOP.
- Flickr offers various kinds of common usage licenses or label them as "all rights reserved". The licensing options primarily include the Creative Commons 2.0 attribution-based and minor content-control licenses - although jurisdiction and version-specific licenses cannot be selected.
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