Flickr.com shouldn’t be new to the internet user who has used the web for more than a month. Flickr is a photo sharing website that operates on much the same principles of Twitter. A user uploads photos, and the photo stream is shared with followers, and in the public stream.
Flickr has done much more in its relatively short life than just spark the web 2.0 revolution of forgetting the last vowel in the suffix of the URL keyword. Flickr has grown into much more than just a photo sharing website. Allowing users to specify the copyrights and licensing of their photos via Creative Commons has sparked a blogger revolution, making Flickr the go-to website for blog post photos. To spice things up even more, Flickr added a sort of 12seconds.tv appeal when they allowed Pro members to upload up to 90second videos. Mashable reported very recently that Flickr has now decided to allow the video feature to be accessed and used by all members (check Mashable for the rest of the details).
Flickr has made it easy for people and families to share photos with eachother via a more usable and friendly platform than email. I assume that it will do the same for videos as well. It will be interesting to see how the new video feature works out for bloggers as well. Perhaps the more “professional” users will allow their video to be accessed and used by creative commons to benefit bloggers and content writers across the web.
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