flickr

Flickr is a photo hosting Web site which grew from developments Ludicorp made for use in a Massively Mulitplayer Online Role-Playing Game called Game Neverending. The game was canceled, but the photo hosting service evolved to become a major pillar of Web 2.0, the Internet movement supporting collaboration and creativity.

Flickr launched in February 2004, and since then it has grown to host more than 3 billion photos. In March of 2005, Yahoo! bought out Flicker and Ludicorp and moved their headquarters from their original home in Vancouver to California. Since then, Flickr has started supporting a limited video upload function.

In addition to providing users with the ability to share their photographs with friends, family, and the Internet at large, bloggers often use Flickr as a place to host images that enhance their blog pages.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “flickr”

• God Bless You Everyone & Your Furry Friends Too

  
  {2H Design} — Authority: 121
  Make you have a very Merry Christmas!  Enjoy your families and furry friends!  Make the most of this magical time of year!
  6 hours ago

• Love Me Still

  
  Authspot — Authority: 562
    Image by EmerandSam via Flickr Image via Wikipedia     Love me still Only love is the word I fully know its meaning Only I alone know. Be it Christmas A new year A birthday Or marriage Be it a picnic Or a get together too The only words I shall say I ...
  7 hours ago

• Move photos from Flickr to Picasa Web, Photobucket, etc with Migratr

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 711
  Migratr does exactly what its name suggests -- if you insert an e before the last letter, anyway. It migrates your images from one image-hosting site to another. Other than sounding a bit like an angry person looking for their cheese grater, and moving images around the Web, thats about it. It preserves meta data, ...
  7 hours ago

• Move photos from Flickr to Picasa Web, Photobucket, etc. with Migratr

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 711
  Migratr does exactly what its name suggests -- if you insert an e before the last letter, anyway. It migrates your images from one image-hosting site to another. Other than sounding a bit like an angry person looking for their cheese grater, and moving images around the Web, thats about it. It preserves meta data, ...
  7 hours ago

• Last-minute, online gift ideas that wont make it look like you forgot!

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 694
  Filed under: Technology Undoubtedly someone will show up at your house or a holiday party this year bearing a gift for you; but you wont have anything, even a standby bottle of wine, to give them. So what are you to do? Last minute e-gift cards work, but they reek of, "Oops-I-forgot-about-you" to anyone who gets ...
  8 hours ago

• Flickn Awesome 8/10

  
  Vancouver Is Awesome — Authority: 550
  99 local photographers, more than 200 photographs, Schramm Vodka and a free photobooth made for one awesome night. In case you missed our FLICKN AWESOME party, over the next ten days we’ll be sharing all of the images that were in the slideshow that we presented at it, with help from a ton of amazing ...
  8 hours ago

• A pocket full of sunshine

  
  Michigan in Pictures — Authority: 126
  A pocket full of sunshine, photo by cae3 – AnitaThe other day Anita wrote:It is freezing cold here in Michigan, and I was going through my summer archives and found this one. Ah…how I really miss summer right about now.However much I love winter, I feel the same way some days. Hope you’re staying warm [...]
  10 hours ago

• Fazer candies

  
  Nordic Design Blog — Authority: 140
  pepez@flickr has added a photo to the pool: Finnish candies in a Finnish vase
  13 hours ago

• Samsung LN40B750 40-Inch 1080p 240 Hz LCD HDTV with Charcoal Grey Touch of Color

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 175
  40-inch high definition TV with 1080p resolution Four HDMI, two component, one PC, and two composite video inputs; two 10W bottom speakers and SRS TruSurround HD Samsung technology like Auto Motion Plus 240Hz, 2ms response time, 150,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and Wide Color Enhancer Medi@2.0 lets you enjoy ...
  17 hours ago

• Noticings: Foursquare for Photographers

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
  [IMG: http://www.family-learning-center.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d81d1_noticings_logo_dec09a.jpg]
  17 hours ago

• Christmas Seasons Greetings!

  
  The Secret Diary of Steve Ballmer! — Authority: 123
  "To all of my fans, admirers, devottees, cultist, employees, troll-hirelings, onlookers, stalkers, friends, yes men and others: I and the senior staff and all lower functionaries would wish to wish you and all of yours a Merry Christmas and prosperous Windows Seven Using New Year! " - Stephanos Anton Ballmerfeld ...
  18 hours ago

• Bench Monday~Practicing Our Carols Edition~ 25 Days of Christmas~Day 7

  
  wrongtown — Authority: 123
  Bench Monday~Practicing Our Carols Edition~ 25 Days of Christmas~Day 7 Originally uploaded by fullofbliss(busy, trying to make Christmas magic) .
  1 day ago

• Liu Liu and Linus

  
  wrongtown — Authority: 123
  Liu Liu and Linus Originally uploaded by D as in Diane .
  1 day ago

• Keep Glued

  
  Authspot — Authority: 562
  Image via Wikipedia   Image by Adam Jones, Ph.D. via Flickr   Rolling stones gather no moss   So I stick on to Triond   So should you   As no one ever makes money    On these sites    Nor would you
  1 day ago

• Bite Size News, December 23: ‘Tis The Season Edition

  
  Boston Blog — Authority: 488
  Image by historygradguy from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Boston’s public works crews are out and about searching for items being used to save spaces. Space savers get confiscated and often include chairs, cones, toilets, grills and shopping carts. Trash barrels reportedly aren’t confiscated. [ Boston ...
  1 day ago

• The Travel Horror Story Winner Is Now Boarding at Gate 1A [Christmas Crash]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 858
  We have chosen the king of the Holiday Travel Horror Stories and the winner of a $50 MetroCard. Looks like youre going to have to save your fresh tales of woe for next years contest. Here are your winners. There were so many great crashes along the Christmas commute that we couldnt decide on just one. Here are ...
  1 day ago

• Sprite

  
  PUMPKINROT.COM: What's Brewing — Authority: 144
  Image source. [IMG: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZzhKqCSNjzw/SzJPTN7SlAI/AAAAAAAANmA/QpkSW9PVtc4/s400/4066644605_c47eae2ed8_o.jpg]
  1 day ago

• tis’ the season

  
  Daily Art Muse — Authority: 128
  today’s flickr find: The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Sue Atchley Ebaugh Linda Goodman on Flickr I think the quote above is a good reminder for this season of giving. I’m taking a couple of days off to get ready for a visit with Jess ...
  1 day ago

• In the Driver’s Seat

  
  Photografr.com — Authority: 400
  In the Driver’s Seat by budrowilson
  1 day ago

• Flickn Awesome 7/10

  
  Vancouver Is Awesome — Authority: 550
  99 local photographers, more than 200 photographs, Schramm Vodka and a free photobooth made for one awesome night. In case you missed our FLICKN AWESOME party, over the next ten days we’ll be sharing all of the images that were in the slideshow that we presented at it, with help from a ton of amazing ...
  1 day ago

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