| Flickr | |
|---|---|
| URL | Flickr.com |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | photo/ video sharing and Photo/Video networking |
| Available language(s) | Chinese (traditional) English (original) French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Korean |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Ludicorp |
| Launched | February 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately A video sharing service allows individuals to Upload Video clips to an Internet website In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related Standard Cantonese is the standard variant of the Cantonese (Yuet language English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system Ludicorp is the company that created Flickr and Game Neverending. An image hosting service allows individuals to upload Images to an Internet website A video sharing service allows individuals to Upload Video clips to an Internet website A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A Web service (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as Newsletters It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. Web 20 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and Web design that aims to enhance Creativity, secure In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method As of November 2007, it hosts more than two billion images. November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year It began on a Thursday and 30 days later ended on a Friday [1][2][3]
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Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based company founded in 2002. Ludicorp is the company that created Flickr and Game Neverending. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page 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. Game Neverending ( GNE) was an innovative Massively multiplayer online game that was in development by Ludicorp, better known as the creators Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved. [4]
Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by Mass media to describe any form of Synchronous conferencing, occasionally even Asynchronous conferencing 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 backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending's codebase.
Some of the key features of Flickr not initially present were tags, marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is pending. A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image or Computer file) This article is about patents For the band Patent Pending see Patent Pending (band. [5]
In March 2005, Yahoo! Inc. acquired Ludicorp and Flickr. During the week of June 28, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States, resulting in all data being subject to United States federal law. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The law of the United States was originally largely derived from the Common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary [6]
On May 16, 2006, Flickr updated its services from beta to "gamma", along with a design and structural overhaul. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product According to the site's FAQ, the term "gamma", rarely used in software development, is intended to be tongue-in-cheek to indicate that the service is always being tested by its users, and is in a state of perpetual improvement. FAQ is an Acronym for " Frequently Asked Question(s " Tongue-in-cheek is a term used to refer to humor in which a statement or an entire fictional work is not meant to be taken seriously but its lack of seriousness is subtle [7] For all intents and purposes, the current service is considered a stable release.
On December 29, 2006 the upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100MB a month (from 20MB) and were removed from Pro Accounts, permitting unlimited uploads for holders of these accounts (originally a 2GB per month limit). Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [8]
In January 2007, Flickr announced that the "Old Skool" members, those that pre-date the Yahoo acquisition, would be required to associate their account with a Yahoo ID by March 15 to continue using the service. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, [9] This move was criticized by some users. [10]
Flickr later added limits of 3,000 contacts and 75 tags for photos. Pre-existing accounts with over 3,000 contacts would not be able to add more until some were removed, with the same applying to tag limits. This contact limit no longer exists.
In June 2007, Flickr changed the tagline on its logo to "Flickr loves you". A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign) [11]
On April 9, 2008, Flickr began to allow its paid subscribers to upload videos limited to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
Flickr asks photo submitters to organize images using tags (a form of metadata), which allow searchers to find images concerning a certain topic such as place name or subject matter. A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image or Computer file) Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media In Geography, location is a position or point in Physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface Flickr was also an early website to implement tag clouds, which provide access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site used typically Because of its support for tags, Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy, although Thomas Vander Wal suggested Flickr is not the best example. Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method Thomas Vander Wal is an Information architect best known for coining the term " Folksonomy " [12]
Flickr also allows users to organize their photos into "sets", or groups of photos that fall under the same heading. However, sets are more flexible than the traditional folder-based method of organizing files, as one photo can belong to one set, many sets, or none at all. Flickr's "sets", then, represent a form of categorical metadata rather than a physical hierarchy. Metadata ( meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data" of any sort in any media Sets may be grouped into "collections", and collections further grouped into higher-order collections.
Finally, Flickr offers a fairly comprehensive web-service API that allows programmers to create applications that can perform almost any function a user on the Flickr site can do. [13]
Organizr is a web application for organizing photos within a Flickr account that can be accessed through the Flickr interface. In Software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via Web browser over a network such as the Internet It allows users to modify tags, descriptions, and set groupings, and to place photos on a world map (a feature provided in conjunction with Yahoo! Maps). Yahoo! Maps is a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo!. It uses Ajax to emulate the look, feel, and quick functionality of desktop-based photo-management applications. Because of this, Organizr simplifies the batch organization of photos, which is more cumbersome with the normal web interface.
Flickr provides both private and public image storage. A user uploading an image can set privacy controls that determine who can view the image. A photo can be flagged as either public or private. Private images are visible by default only to the uploader, but they can also be marked as viewable by friends and/or family. Privacy settings also can be decided by adding photographs from a user's photostream to a "group pool". If a group is private all the members of that group can see the photo. If a group is public the photo becomes public as well. Flickr also provides a "contact list" which can be used to control image access for a specific set of users in a way similar to that of LiveJournal. LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a Virtual community where Internet users can keep a Blog, Journal or Diary.
In November 2006 Flickr created a "guest pass" system that allows private photos to be shared with non Flickr members. For instance, a person could email this pass to parents who may not have an account to allow them to see the photos otherwise restricted from public view. This setting allows sets to be shared, or all photos under a certain privacy category (friends or family) to be shared.
In March 2007, Flickr added new content filtering controls that let members specify by default what types of images they generally upload (photo, art/illustration, or screenshot) and how "safe" (i. A screenshot, screen capture, or screen dump is an Image taken by the Computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor e. , unlikely to offend others) their images are, as well as specify that information for specific images individually. [14] In addition, users can specify the same criteria when searching for images. There are some restrictions on searches for certain types of users: non-members must always use SafeSearch, which omits images noted as potentially offensive, while members whose Yahoo! accounts indicate that they are underage may use SafeSearch or moderate SafeSearch, but cannot turn SafeSearch off completely.
Many members allow their photos to be viewed by anyone, forming a large collaborative database of categorized photos. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system By default, other members can leave comments about any image they have permission to view, and in some cases can add to the list of tags associated with an image.
Flickr's functionality includes RSS and Atom feeds and an API that allows independent programmers to expand its services. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for Web feeds while the Atom Publishing
The core functionality of the site relies on standard HTML and HTTP features, allowing for wide compatibility among platforms and browsers. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP) is a Communications protocol for the transfer of information on the Internet. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text images videos music games and other information typically located on a Organizr uses Ajax, with which most modern browsers are compliant, and most of Flickr's other text-editing and tagging interfaces also possess Ajax functionality.
Images can be posted to the user's collection via email attachments, enabling direct uploads from many cameraphones and applications with email capabilities.
Flickr has increasingly been adopted by many web users as their primary photo storage site, especially members of the weblog community. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of In addition, it is popular with Macintosh and Linux users, who are locked out of photo-sharing sites that require Windows and Internet Explorer. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE) commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical
Flickr uses the Geo microformat on the pages for over 3 million geotagged images. Geo is a microformat used for marking up WGS84 geographical coordinates ( Latitude; Longitude) in (XHTML. Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification Metadata to various media such as photographs video websites or RSS feeds and is a form of [15]
Flickr also lets members 'do more with your photos' through partnerships with third parties, offering streamlined printing of various forms of merchandise, including business cards, photo books, and large size prints.
Users of Windows Live Photo Gallery BETA now have the ability to upload their photos directly to Flickr.
With a free account, each user has access to only the most recent 200 images he or she has uploaded. Older images are not deleted, and are still accessible via their URLs (e. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it g. , linked from another website). [16] Free accounts which are inactive for 90 consecutive days may be automatically deleted.
In March 2007, Flickr introduced mandatory filtering of all photos and a process of central review of photos by staff to set levels of appropriateness. By default all Flickr accounts are set to the status appropriate for a minor and must be changed by the user in their account.
Flickr has since used this setting to change the level of accessibility to "unsafe" content for entire nations, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Germany. In summer 2007, German users staged a "revolt" over being assigned to the user rights of a minor. [17] See Censorship controversy below.
The filter system of Flickr assumes that photos may be unsafe and should not be public until a staff person has validated that the material is safe. Until this happens, which could take up to a month, material cannot be viewed by persons without a valid Yahoo and Flickr account. A Flickr site not marked as safe can only be viewed by people in the community who have set their filters beyond the default status of that of a “minor”.
Yahoo announced that they would shut down Yahoo! Photos on September 20, 2007, after which all photos would be deleted. Yahoo! Photos is a defunct Photo sharing service of Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [18][19] During the interim, users had the ability to migrate their photos to Flickr or other services (including Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, and Photobucket). Shutterfly is an Internet -based social expression and personal publishing service Snapfish is a web-based Photo sharing and print service currently owned by Hewlett-Packard which was launched in April 2000. Photobucket is an image hosting, Video hosting, Slideshow creation and Photo sharing website All who migrated to Flickr were given three months of a Flickr Pro account.
Flickr offers users the ability to release their images under certain common usage licenses. The verb license or grant license means to give permission The noun license is the document demonstrating that permission The licensing options primarily include the Creative Commons 2. Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share 0 attribution-based and minor content-control licenses - although jurisdiction and version-specific licenses cannot be selected. As with "tags", the site allows easy searching of only those images that fall under a specific license. A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image or Computer file) [20]
Since August 24, 2006, some Yahoo! web searches return image results from Flickr, for example "funny photos" or "travel photography". Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [21]
Cal Henderson, a Flickr developer, discussed the service's backend in a presentation at the Vancouver PHP Association in 2005. Cal Henderson (born Callum James Henderson-Begg on January 17 1981) is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. [22] The platform consisted of:
On June 12, 2007, in the wake of the rollout of localized language version of the site, Flickr implemented a user-side rating system for filtering out potentially controversial photos. Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Simultaneously, users with accounts registered with Yahoo subsidiaries in Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea were prevented from viewing photos rated "moderate" or "restricted" on the three-part scale used. Many Flickr users, particularly German, protested against the new restrictions, claiming unwanted censorship from Flickr and Yahoo. [24]
Flickr management, unwilling to go into legal details, implied that the reason for the stringent filtering were unusually strict age-verification laws in Germany. The issue received some attention in the German national media, especially in online publications. Initial reports indicated that Flickr's action was a sensible, if unattractive, precaution against prosecution,[25] although later coverage implied that Flickr's action may have been unnecessarily strict. [26]
On June 20, 2007 Flickr reacted by granting German users access to "moderate", but not "restricted" images, and hinted at a future solution involving advanced age-verification procedures for Germany, though no mention was made of Singapore, Hong Kong or Korea. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
Flickr is also blocked by the governments of some countries. Users in mainland China have been denied access to Flickr by Chinese ISPs since early June, 2007. Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term synonymous with the area that is under the jurisdiction An Internet service provider ( ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company which primarily offers their customers access to the Internet Flickr is also completely blocked in some other countries, such as Iran and the United Arab Emirates. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. [27] Details of how to work around the block to access Flickr in all of these countries have appeared on the Web. [27]
In 2007, Virgin Mobile launched a bus stop ad campaign promoting their cellphone text messaging service using the work of amateur photographers who uploaded their work to Flickr using a Creative Commons-by (Attribution) license. Virgin Mobile is a brand used by many Mobile phone service providers based in the United Kingdom, and operating A bus stop is a designated place where a Public transport Bus stops for the purpose of allowing passengers to board or leave a bus An advertising campaign is a series of Advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC Text messaging, or texting is the common term for the sending of "short" (160 characters or fewer including spaces text messages from Mobile phones Creative Commons licenses are several Copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U Users licensing their images this way freed their work for use by any other entity, as long as the original creator was attributed credit, without any other compensation required. Virgin upheld this single restriction by printing a URL leading to the photographer's Flickr page on each of their ads. However, one picture depicted 15 year-old Alison Chang at a fund-raising carwash for her church,[28] for which Chang sued Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons. The photo was taken by Alison's church youth counselor, Justin Ho-Wee Wong, who uploaded the image to Flickr under the Creative Commons license. Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share [28]
| “ | The case hinges on privacy, the right of people not to have their likeness used in an ad without permission. So, while Mr. Wong may have given away his rights as a photographer, he did not, and could not, give away Alison's rights. Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights the right to publicity or to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission In the lawsuit, which Mr. Wong is also a party to, there is an argument that Virgin did not honor all the terms of the nonrestrictive license. [28] | ” |
On November 27, 2007 Chang filed for a voluntary dismiss of the lawsuit against Creative Commons,[29] focusing their lawsuit against Virgin Mobile. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [30] As of May, 2008 the lawsuit is still pending [31]