Information AboutFlickr |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT FLICKR | |
| photo sharing | |
| photography websites | |
| online social networking | |
| web 2.0 | |
| yahoo | |
| 2002 establishments | |
| image hosting | |
Flickr is a Photo Sharing Website and Web Service s suite, and an Online Community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by Blog gers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative Online Community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by Folksonomic means. Flickr has a repository that is quickly approaching 1 billion images (as of August 2007). HISTORY Flickr was developed by Ludicorp , a Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada -based company founded in 2002. Ludicorp launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending , a web-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game . Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved. Early incarnations of Flickr focused on a multiuser Chat Room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found on the web rather than photographs taken by users. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr's back end systems evolved away from the Game Neverending's codebase. |
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