Flickr is considered the most popular photo-sharing website. Its collaborative tools have made it popular in higher education, some faculty have begun using Flickr images in their courses, art schools, biologists. Others use Flickr to share critique and analyze visual information. Nowadays Flickr is owned by yahoo, the website offers eight different languages, which make it easier to the popular.
Flickr- provides users with considerable control over how their photos can be used. Users can indicate whether each photo is public or private. Users can associate a Creative Commons license with the users’ content, to grant people the right to use your work under certain circumstances’’1. The site provides the tools, but the value derives from the contributions of the user community photos, comments, ratings and organization and the connections that the site facilitates between individuals.
The tools that Flickr provide enable users to post photos from any camera of directly from a PC or cell phones, I-pad, HD videos’’2. Make it easier for the user to tag photos from any place he exists.
Business people or organizations have the ability to use this website to enhance their business market. It provides users with sharing products’ photos, comments, ads, researches to share their items related to business markets and sharing experience with others and build strong business relationships.
Flickr offers a “World Map” where the user can browse the whole globe from the hometown to your favorite place, or places you had never heard of’’1. Other than sharing photos with others, flickr present a website showing different places responsive to the demand of the user. A photographer can add pictures of famous places where tourists can visit.
Despite the benefits of using the website Flickr; it has some disadvantages as well. To gain more capacity, users have to pay subscription about $24.95 for one year, to have unlimited uploads and storage, unlimited sets and collections, access to your original files, stats on your account, ad-free browsing and sharing and HD playback for high-definition video uploads’’1.
People how are interested in business field or in taking picture, Flickr is the most effective website to be used. From learning about this website, I advice all the business students and colleges to have an account, in order to share comments, receive feedback, engage with a community of experts gain experiences or accept constructive criticism on projects from other communities how are interested in the same field.
Improved by yahoo Inc, 2011. Available from:
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Improved by Educause Learning Initiative, 2008. Available from:
2- <http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7 Things you should know about flickr/162592>
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