For mobile users, Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS, Android, and an optimized mobile site.
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35 Facts About Flickr
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Flickr was launched on February 10, 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.
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Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved, Butterfield later launched a similar online game, Glitch, which was shut down on November 14, 2012.
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Flickr upgraded its services from "beta" to "gamma" status on May 16, 2006, the changes attracted positive attention from Lifehacker.
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On March 2, 2009, Flickr added the facility to upload and view HD videos, and began allowing free users to upload normal-resolution video.
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On May 20, 2013, Flickr launched the first stage of a major site redesign, introducing a "Justified View" close-spaced photo layout browsed via "infinite scrolling" and adding new features, including one terabyte of free storage for all users, a scrolling home page and updated Android app.
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Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs.
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Flickr has always offered two types of accounts: Free and Pro.
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In May 2011, Flickr added an option to easily reverse an account termination, motivated by the accidental deletion of a Flickr user's account, and public reporting of its protracted restoration.
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Images a photographer uploads to Flickr go into their sequential "photostream", the basis of a Flickr account.
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Flickr was an early website to implement tag clouds, which were used until 2013, providing access to images tagged with the most popular keywords.
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Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy.
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Flickr provides code to embed albums into blogs, websites and forums.
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Flickr albums represent a form of categorical metadata rather than a physical hierarchy.
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Flickr provides a "contact list" which can be used to control image access for a specific set of users in a way similar to that of LiveJournal.
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In November 2006, Flickr created a "guest pass" system that allows private photos to be shared with non-Flickr members.
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Flickr uses the Geo microformat on over 3 million geotagged images.
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Flickr provides a desktop client for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to upload photos without using the web interface.
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Flickr had a partnership with the Picnik online photo-editing application that included a reduced-feature version of Picnik built into Flickr as a default photo editor.
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Flickr offers printing of various forms of merchandise, including business cards, photo books, stationery, personalized credit cards and large-size prints from companies such as Moo, Blurb, Tiny Prints, Capital One, Imagekind, and QOOP.
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Flickr has used this filtering system to change the level of accessibility to "unsafe" content for entire nations, including South Korea, Hong Kong and Germany.
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Flickr offers users the ability to either release their images under certain common usage licenses or label them as "all rights reserved".
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Flickr later created a new license which identified them as "United States Government Work", which does not carry any copyright restrictions.
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In March 2015, Flickr added the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark and Creative Commons Zero to its licensing options.
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Flickr became an immediate success and is seen as a successful example of "Web 2.
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In 2007, Flickr was the 19th most popular website on the Internet according to its Alexa Rank.
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On June 12, 2007, in the wake of the rollout of localized language versions of the site, Flickr implemented a user-side rating system for filtering out potentially controversial photos.
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On June 20, 2007, Flickr reacted by granting German users access to "moderate" images, and hinted at a future solution for Germany, involving advanced age-verification procedures.
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Since June 1, 2009, Flickr has been blocked in China in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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Under OCILLA, a service provider such as Flickr is obliged to delete or disable access to content as soon as they receive an official notice of infringement, to maintain protection from liability.
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Flickr argued that this was contrary to its obligations in responding to a counter-notice.
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In 2019, Flickr added new theft detection tool options to certain users.
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In November 2014, Flickr announced that it would sell wall-sized prints of photos from the service that are licensed under Creative Commons licenses allowing commercial use.
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On March 17, 2022, Flickr revealed that it had not in fact deleted any photos for exceeding storage limits.
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