What is Flickr? Flickr Review

Founding

Flickr was created in February 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. Initially, Ludicorp created Flickr as a web-based massively multiplayer online game tool. Ludicorp wanted to prove that Flickr was a viable project, and eventually the game was shelved.

An early version of Flickr was called FlickrLive, which was a multi-user chat room with real-time photo exchange capabilities.

Overview

In addition to allowing users to store personal photos, Flickr also allows them to share images on blogs and social media.

Account Classification

Free Account:

$0 per month, 1 TB of photo and video storage, the ability to create "collections" and add photos to up to 60 groups, the ability to upload individual photos up to 200 MB, the ability to upload individual videos up to 1 GB, each video can play for 3 minutes, and unlimited downloads of original photos.

No advertising account:

The annual fee is $49.99, which provides an ad-free browsing experience;

Doublr Account:

It costs $499.99 per year and provides 2TB of photo and video storage, along with all the features of the free account.

Development History

In 2004, Ludicorp built a suite of web services and online communities (the predecessor to Flickr).

April 21, 2004: Flickr launches Photostreams, a feature that allows users to browse each other's photos in reverse chronological order, a major shift from previous photo-sharing sites that assumed all users would meticulously organize their photos into albums.

April 26, 2004: Flickr launches a mobile version of its website designed for viewing on cell phones.

May 9, 2004: Flickr launches the Tags feature, allowing users to add relevant keywords to photos, creating an image index generated by a large user base, which information architect Thomas Vander Wal called "folksonomy."

August 27, 2004: Flickr launches the Favorites feature, which helps users tell Favorites which content on the site is most popular.

In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr. During the week of June 28, all data was moved from servers originally located in Canada to the United States, making all data subject to U.S. federal law.

May 16, 2006. Flickr overhauled its website design and structure, and upgraded its service from Beta (second testing phase) to Gamma.

On June 13, 2007, Flickr officially launched the Traditional Chinese interface.

Starting from April 9, 2008, Flickr allowed paying users to upload videos, with the uploaded videos limited to 90 seconds and 150MB in size.

On March 2, 2009, Flickr upgraded its hardware and began allowing free users to upload videos in normal resolution. At the same time, the setting restrictions for free accounts were removed.

In March 2011, Flickr, a photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo, announced that it had added a new feature called "Share This" to make it easier for users of the website to share photos with users of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.

According to Yahoo, in June 2011, it had 510,000 registered members and 800,000 unique visitors.

On May 20, 2013, Flickr underwent a major redesign that completely changed its look and feel, upgraded its Android app, and increased storage space.

On July 25, 2016, Verizon announced an agreement to acquire Yahoo and Flickr for $4.8 billion.

References

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