Flickr, the new improved way of photosharing
It is the 21st century and the way that people communicate with one another has been progressing since centuries; even the first humans were trying to find new ways of communicating with each other. Nowadays social networking and sharing sites are growing faster than anything else on the web. You have Facebook, Twitter, Hyves (The Dutch equivalent for Netlog) and many more. Flickr is one of those social networking and sharing sites (http://aaronlong.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/flickr-number-2-photo-website-in-all-of-internet-said-like-borat/). Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company (in 2005 acquired by Yahoo along with Flickr). Flickr’s early version was used for real life chat and photo sharing. Like many other sites Flickr was renewing its system and evolving alongside with the internet, it also focused more on uploading and sharing of images by its users, rather than images from the web.
Users have the choice of becoming user or a pro-user. Each user is allowed to upload and share images with other users on Flickr and they appreciate that (http://weetoesandnoggins.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/best-of-flickr/). Flickr now has amateur photographers, professional photographers, designers, companies and even governments as signed users. It has grown to a large photo sharing networking site, where people meet and share their photos with one another. Photographers use Flickr also as a reference for when they write letters to a designer studio or company for a job. Companies then can use Flickr to see what kind of photographer that person is. Companies try to sell their products by using Flickr and to promote products. Flickr is now the second largest photo sharing site on the web behind Photobucket.
Reference:
http://weetoesandnoggins.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/best-of-flickr/
http://jessidee86.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/flickr-vs-photobucket/
