About Flickr

About Flickr

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing
application in the world - has two main goals:

1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who
matter to them.

Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or
maybe they want to show off their best pictures or video to the whole world
in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately
share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr
makes all these things possible and more!

To do this, we want to get photos and video into and out of the system in as
many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home
computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their content.
And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the
Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways
we haven't thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart
refrigerators for?

2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed
with the sheer number of photos you take or videos you shoot with that itchy
trigger finger. 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.

If you have any questions or comments please contact me.

Regards Gerald

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