Flickr

History: Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver company founded in 2002 and launched in February 2004, initially as an online multiplayer game. Some of its early versions included a chat with possibilities to exchange photos in real time, called FlickrLive. The successive evolutions focused more on uploading photos and the implementation of new functions for individual users, resulting in the removal of this chat room. In March 2005, Flickr and Ludicorp were bought by Yahoo!, Prompting Yahoo! to leave their old Yahoo! Photos, and focus its resources on Flickr. On July 11, 2007, the service, originally only available in English, was launched in seven languages, including Spanish.

Features:The service is widely used by bloggers as a repository of photos. The system allows you to search Flickr images by tags, by date and by Creative Commons licenses. Other features are RSS and Atom feeds, and an API that allows independent developers to create their own services and applications. The service is based on the usual characteristics of HTML and HTTP, allowing it to be usable on multiple platforms and browsers. The interface for labeling and editing text uses AJAX, which is also compatible with most browsers. An essential component of the website, arrange, based on Macromedia Flash technology, which is widely available, but not fully open. The photographs and images and videos can also be sent via email. Flickr is especially popular among Macintosh users, who are often excluded from other photo sharing sites is necessary because an architecture PC / Windows.

concept: Flickr is a website for sharing images on photographic. Can be used to support different online communities with different media platforms, it is generally considered an example of the new navigation Web 2.0. This website serves as a popular server to share personal photographs, the service is universally used by bloggers as a photo repository. The popularity is partly due to the large online community accessing the service, as well as the tools that allow authors to tag their photos as an explorer of the best photos of the week. Today, Flickr has more than two billion images.