Albums, the principal way people go about organizing things 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 or videos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your stuff - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags.
People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos and videos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet?
And as all this info accretes as metadata, you can find things so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable. May saw Flickr welcome an account for the White House, which quickly became the main channel for official photo releases. Nowadays, the website offers a multitude of organisational tools to link images and help users make the most of its galleries.
Tags are at the basis of all searches, and visitors can search not only by theme, but also by the type of distribution license the images carry. On top of tags, users can organise their images in sets, which can in turn be geo-tagged and mapped to produce interactive maps for websites or blogs.
Flickr also offers an online photo editing service and last year saw the website end its long standing partnership with editing application Picnick in favour of its new default editor Aviary. Such as:.
April A version of the site designed for viewing on mobile phones. From the get-go, Flickr catered to people who took pictures with their phones — one early user brought a camera phone into the delivery room to get pictures of her newborn onto Flickr A.
August Favorites, which, like tags, helped users tell Flickr what was popular on the service. They helped reshape the entire web, which was still figuring out how social applications should work.
We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. Things did go well at first under Yahoo ownership. Including me: I joined in August From the very beginning, its creators had envisioned it becoming a multipurpose platform for sharing and collaboration, and talked about it adding features like video and music. In , both Fake and Butterfield left Yahoo. As he departed, Butterfield earned additional fame by writing the best resignation letter of all time.
YouTube owned user-generated video, period. Instagram established itself as the preeminent phone-based social network for shutterbugs. Dropbox rethought how photos, and everything else, could be stored online. By early , when Yahoo was busy thinning out the herd of services it had created or acquired — including Delicious, another legend of Web 2. When we talk about the loss of internet culture, a lot of roads lead back to Yahoo. Or more generally, to acquisitions and consolidations in the tech sphere that come with streamlining — not just the winnowing down of valuations and the loss of jobs, but the ditching of troves of images, videos, and text that go unclaimed when email address-based user accounts change hands and get lost.
A much smaller site than Flickr, Webshots held about million photos at the time Flickr had more than 6 billion at the same point. There is not a single person who knows anything who would say differently. Scott says he personally suggested that the company allow people to gift each other Pro accounts, and they set it up as an option six days later. The Internet Archive is duplicating as much as it can, based on requests. Things will get lost, including a big chunk of internet history.
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