Flickr & Tagging

This week I had an opportunity to continue exploring the site Flickr. As stated before, Flickr is a photo-sharing website that allows users to store digital images and organize them using tags. Although there are many photo-sharing sites, Flickr is by far one of the most popular and widely used. Flickr probably owes its’ immense success to their thriving Web 2.0 community. Other users can view your pictures and add comments, and contacts can be given permission to organize your photos. Also, users can create groups and these groups can host discussions. Besides offering opportunities for users to collaborate and network with one another, Flickr also offers a wide range of nifty features, like tagging. In addition to allowing searchers to find images on a certain topic or subject matter, Flickr also provides tag clouds, which give users access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. Other features include, RSS feeds, geotagging, photo streaming, slideshows, and the list goes on.