Flickr is a photo storage and video hosting website. In 2004, Ludicorp established a web services suite and online community (the predecessor of Flickr), which Yahoo acquired in 2005. In addition to allowing users to store personal photos, Flickr also allows them to share images on blogs and social media.
Flickr fees:
1. $0 per month, 1TB of photo and video storage, create "collections", add photos to up to 60 groups, upload a single photo of 200MB, upload a single video of 1GB, each video can be played for 3 minutes, and unlimited downloads of original photos.
2. No advertising account:
The annual fee is $49.99, which provides an ad-free browsing experience.
3. Doublr account:
It costs $499.99 per year and provides 2TB of photo and video storage, along with all the features of the free account.
The development of Flickr:
In 2004, Ludicorp built a suite of web services and online communities (the predecessor to Flickr).
April 21, 2004: Flickr launches Photostreams, a feature that allows users to browse each other's photos in reverse chronological order, a major shift from previous photo-sharing sites that assumed all users would meticulously organize their photos into albums.
April 26, 2004: Flickr launches a mobile version of its website designed for viewing on cell phones.
May 9, 2004: Flickr launches the Tags feature, allowing users to add relevant keywords to photos, thus creating an image index generated by a large user base, which is called "folksonomy" by information architect Thomas VanderWal.
August 27, 2004: Flickr launches the Favorites feature, which helps users tell Favorites which content on the site is most popular.
In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr. During the week of June 28, all data was moved from servers originally located in Canada to the United States, making all data subject to U.S. federal law.
May 16, 2006. Flickr overhauled its website design and structure and upgraded the service from Beta (second testing phase) to Gamma phase.
On June 13, 2007, Flickr officially launched the Traditional Chinese interface.
Starting from April 9, 2008, Flickr allowed paying users to upload videos, with the uploaded videos limited to 90 seconds and 150MB in size.
On March 2, 2009, Flickr upgraded its hardware facilities and began allowing free users to upload videos in normal resolution. At the same time, the setting restrictions for free accounts have been removed.
In March 2011, Flickr, a photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo, announced that it had added a new feature called "ShareThis" to make it easier for users of the website to share photos with users of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
According to Yahoo, in June 2011, it had 510,000 registered members and 800,000 unique visitors.
On May 20, 2013, Flickr underwent a major redesign that completely changed its look and feel, upgraded its Android app, and increased storage space.
On July 25, 2016, Verizon announced an agreement to acquire Yahoo and Flickr for $4.8 billion.
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