Flickr

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Contents 1 Main purpose 2 Useful information 3 Pros & Cons 3.1 Pros 3.2 Cons 4 References

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:

• official NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• the White House photostream
• one of the world's greatest photography archives including:
  • The Library of Congress,
  • The Smithsonian,
  • The New York Public Library and
  • The U.S. National Archives.

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

• http://www.flickr.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/about/
• http://blog.flickr.net/
• http://www.flickr.com/tour