Flickr
Flickr is an image/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 that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.
Flickr asks photo submitters to organize images using tags (a form of metadata), which allow searchers to find images concerning a certain topic such as place name or subject matter. Flickr was also an early website to implement tag clouds, which provide access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. Flickr also allows users to organize their photos into "sets", or groups of photos that fall under the same heading.
Flickr offers users the ability to release their images under certain common usage licenses. The licensing options primarily include the Creative Commons 2.0 attribution-based and minor content-control licenses - although jurisdiction and version-specific licenses cannot be selected.
Version 2.0
This gadget version provide an engaging visual way to explore tagged photos through a fairly comprehensive web-service API that allows programmers to create applications that can perform almost any function a user on the Flickr site can do.
Version 1.0
NOTE: This version is obsolete, use version 2.0.
Using Flickr Viewer
Since the gadget is connected to a keyword supplier, it will show some photographs related to that search, and provided by Flickr web-service API.
Moreover, the gadget offers users the ability to show additional information about the photographs (title and author) by tooltips, and the possibility of clicking on them to send the selected photo URL to other gadget.
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- flickr.jpg (144.3 kB) - added by rnogal on 05/12/08 11:24:57.
