Flickr is partly commercial Web a 2.0-Webanwendung, which permits it to users to make digital pictures available with short comments on the web page and so different users. Beside the conventional Upload over the web page, the pictures also by E-Mail or by the Fotohandy and be linked later on own web pages with small Web space or in forum entries can be transferred.

Flickr offers the possibility of sorting photos in categories (also tags called) of taking up to so-called pools according to references to search, so-called Photostreams (Photoblogs) other user to look at and pictures with screen windows to commentate.

Beyond that are available a multiplicity of RSS feeds, which the representation of the pictures on arbitrary web pages or finding new pictures simplifies clearly to a certain topic.

Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, one 2002 in Canada created enterprise with seat in Vancouver. In March 2005 became Flickr and Ludicorp of Yahoo! bought.

Flickr has according to own data approx. 5,000 side accesses per minute and over three million registered users. Flickr belongs according to the search machine Alexa to the thousand most strongly frequented sides in the Internet. Telepolis called Flickr the next, still simpler step of the HTML editor over Weblogs for fast and simple publishing with a Mausklick.Telepolis "„we shows up the world "“13. March 2005 in this regard is Flickr just as intuitively as Wikis.

In May 2006 Flickr BETA was changed over to Flickr GAMMA.

Data security and restrictions of access

The users can visibly publish or only as Backup for the own photo collection on the home computer use the pictures for everyone. Permission for regarding can be limited to a group of other Flickr users. 82% the user put their pictures however to everyone at disposal. The pictures can be published under a freely selectable license, among them also those the Creative Commons.

to users, who registered themselves free of charge, the among other things following restrictions apply:

• Uploadvolumen of 20 MT per month
• only the newest 200 pictures are indicated
• only 3 photo sets can be provided.

Tags and categories

The possibility of categorizing each picture freely to provide and from others commentate let with a description, supports the user with the fast structure of meta data.

By search machines, which can evaluate these data purposefully, one receives an more organized Web, which was classified together and evaluated by many. In English one calls this phenomenon Folksonomy, in this country fits best kollaborative classification from information retrieval on it.

Flickr offers a special search function, in order to find in common-free pictures and pictures with Creative Commons licenses. So aimed pictures can be found, which permit the user a subsequent treatment.

Technorati and Flickr offer search functions after categories. Thus one can e.g. regard the newest pictures, Related links and Web log articles about Apple iPod

Interaction and interfaces

Flickr sets strongly on the quite new concept Ajax, in order to develop its sides dynamically; for certain Tools and the dia. shows further by open SOURCE software generated Flash is used. The external binding of different applications like for example Weblogs supports Flickr by open interfaces. Flickr user sides and categories can be subscribed by RSS and XML.

The strength by Flickr is to be seen in this connection in the consistent use from open standards to: Many creative advancements and uses of Flickr pictures or - meta data result only from the fact that the data at open, needed for it, documented, well interfaces for the order.

See also

• Photobucket

Sources

Related links

• flickr.com
• Flickr Related day Browser - Flickr for related topics scan
• Flickr uses open SOURCE
• Flickr Tutorial in German language

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