Flickr
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Type of site
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Photo/Video hosting service |
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| Available in |
Chinese (traditional) English French German Indonesian Italian Korean Portuguese Spanish Vietnamese |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Ludicorp |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 236 (October 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | February 10, 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | PHP / Java / JavaScript |
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| Developer(s) | Yahoo Inc. |
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| Stable release |
3.2.1 / 11 June 2009
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| Operating system | Mac OS X, Windows 7, Vista & XP |
| License | GPL |
| Website | https://www.flickr.com/tools/ |
Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo on March 20, 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
The Verge reported in March 2013 that Flickr had a total of 87 million registered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily. In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images and this number continues to grow steadily according to reporting sources. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account but an account must be made in order to upload content onto the website. Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact. For mobile users, Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS,Android, and PlayStation Vita, operating systems, and an optimised mobile website.
Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. The service emerged from tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved; Butterfield later launched a similar online game, Glitch, which closed down in November 2012.
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