Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Flickr


Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and an online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. (To the right is a tag cloud of the most popular tags used by Flickr users.)

If you're a member of a Flickr group, you can add your photo to the group pool. The easiest way add a photo to a group is to go to the photo's page and click the "Send to Group" button between the photo title and the photo.

Here is a link to a list of library-related Flickr sites: libraries using Flickr.

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