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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world

Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you. With Flickr you can:

• Show off your favorite photos to the world
• Blog the photos you take with a cameraphone
• Securely and privately show photos to your friends and family around the world
• ... and much, much more!

Basically, Flickr is what butters the borders between your photos to the people you want to see them. And basic accounts are free!

Flickr has two main goals

 1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!

To do this, we want to get photos into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven’t thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for?

Flickr is the WD-40 that makes it easy to get photos from one person to another in whatever way they want.

 2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.

Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing photos today, are great — until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the "album" metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.

Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes around the photos as metadata, you can find them so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.

Flickr continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better. Check out the Flickr Blog to stay apprised of the latest developments. The fact that you’ve read to the end of this entire document and are hanging out at the bottom of this page with nothing but this silly text to keep you company is proof of a deep and abiding interest on your part.

Here are some features...

We want to make it as easy and fun as possible for you to show your photos and tell your stories with Flickr.

• You will have your own page to show off your photos
• People can leave comments on every photo
• Make many photo sizes, such as thumbnail, medium and large
• Rotate photos easily
• Set privacy levels on each photo and decide who can see them and comment on them
• Upload photos by email or from your cameraphone
• Post photos to just about any blog (LiveJournal, Blogger, Moveable Type, Typepad, Manila, you name it!)

Notes and Tags

When people look at your photos, not only can they leave comments on them, but they can add notes and tags. If your friends add Notes and Tags it helps make your photos that much easier to find, since all this info is searchable later. Imagine this applied to thousands of photos!

Friends, Family and Groups

One of the reasons people love photos so much is because they are an archive of shared memories.

In Flickr, you can easily invite your friends and family, which automatically creates an account for them, so only they can see your photos or comment on them.

You can also form Private Groups for events such as weddings, or Public Groups for interest groups such as Antique Car Buffs or Obscure Rock Band #33.

Organize with Organizr!

Using Flickr Organizr, you can sort all your photos into Sets, which are sort of like albums.

Sets are a grouping of photos that you can organize around a certain theme, such as Our Hawaii Trip. You can use them to highlight your favorite photos, or make an album that is only pictures of your dog.

You can also add a whole big batch of photos to a group photo pool using Organizr. What is a group photo pool? You can form groups for events such as Weddings, or for concert photos from your favorite band. Then all the members can put their photos together in one spot.

publisher-author

Yahoo! Inc [did also : Yahoo Domains Name , Yahoo! Video , Yahoo! My Web - My Yahoo! Bookmarks , JumpCut , del.icio.us , Yahoo! ® Sponsored Search , Yahoo! Shopping ]

License

Free

Created

2003/11/22

Platform

All Platform

Money Back

n/a

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