The art of photography lies at the heart of the service. What can you do with Flickr?įlickr’s corporate history might be rocky, its service is solid and straightforward.įlickr is an image hosting and video hosting service as well as an online community for amateur and professional photographers. The platform currently counts 112 million users. Billions of photos and videos from the Yahoo servers to Amazon Web Services. In 2017 Yahoo! sold the photo website to Oath and in May 2019 it fell into the hands of yet another owner: SmugMug.
Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram grew, cloud file storage services like Dropbox flourished while Flickr’s popularity shrank. Flickr could have seized the opportunity, but they didn’t. In May 2009 Flickr welcomed an account for the White House, which quickly became the main channel for official photo releases.Īs mobile phones became more popular and made better quality pictures, the online world was in need of photo sharing services. Anyone using Yahoo! Photos was nudged to switch over to Flickr and the image hosting website grew, both in user numbers and in features. In 2005 Yahoo! purchased Ludicorp, Butterfield and Fake’s company, for around $35 million. Users were able to tag, comment and delete photos, create groups and use Organizr to manage and sort photos. Images were the way forward and the website received updates continuously. This reverse chronology was an innovative move! Up to that point, photo-sharing sites assumed users would neatly organise their photos into albums.Įventually the chat rooms were closed and forgotten.
In March 2004, for example, they raised the upload limit to 1MB per photo and by April users could organise their images in galleries and see their recent uploads displayed in a photostream. With time however, Flickr started focussing more on the uploading and filing of photos for individual users.
Originally, Flickr resembled a chat room with real-time photo exchange capabilities. Little did they know, that their side project, Flickr, would go on to be the real star of the show. In February 2004, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were at the O’ Reilly Emerging Technology Conference to present their new multiplayer online game, Game Neverending.
0 kommentar(er)
