Flickr

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Main purpose

is great tool for organizing and sharing photos and videos online. It is one of the largest photo database online, and it has more than 4 billion photos stored in Flickr database. It has been translated to the 10 world languages.

Flickr tool enables powerful manipulation with photos that includes:

* adding details about photos (titles, locations, tags and descriptions)
* mapping photos with the location maps
* organizing photos into sets or collections
* advanced searching options that support Creative Commons licensed content. 


Useful information

Flickr Community Guidelines can been seen here. There is free version and paid version. Commercial version offers options like:

   * Unlimited files storage
   * Unlimited sets and collections
   * To see statistics on your account
   * Ad-free browsing and sharing
   * HD playback for high-definition video uploads
   * Photo book

Practical feature is Send FlickrMail, which allows contact with person that shared specific photo. Other useful information that Flickr is offering is possibility to see:

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • tagging of photos
  • adding people to photos for reference
  • adding notes to the photos
  • adding comments to photos
  • showing recent activities: activities on publisher photos, replies to comments and messages
  • possibility to disable (mute) following on recent activity
  • setting privacy options (anyone, only friends, only family, only you or trough guest pass)
  • sharing and publishing photos on other social pages (Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Yahoo! Updates)
  • creating Flickr badge or slideshow to add on a website
  • creation of groups with possibility to share content and conversation (privately or public)
  • possibility to edit pictures online, and to make prints, photo products etc.

Cons

  • only 2 videos and 100 megabytes a month of storage for a free account.
  • no e-mail notice about photo comments
  • no export option


References

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