Flickr

Flickr

URL	Flickr.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Photo/video sharing
Available language(s)	Arabic Chinese (traditional) English (original) French German Italian Portuguese (Brazilian) Spanish Korean
Owner	Yahoo! Inc.
Created by	Ludicorp
Launched	February 2004
Alexa rank	#31
Current status	Active

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images, up from 3 billion in November 2008.

Map sources

In addition to using commercial mapping data, Flickr now uses OpenStreetMap mapping for various cities; this began with Beijing during the run-up to the 2008 Olympic games. As of October 2008[update], this is used for Baghdad, Beijing, Kabul, Sydney, and Tokyo. OpenStreetMap data is collected by volunteers and is available on a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license from Creative Commons.

See also

• Image hosting service
• List of social networking websites
• List of photo sharing websites
• Photo sharing
• User-generated content

External links

• Official site
• Flickr Blog
• Ludicorp corporate website