Flickr

The book I read to research this post was Flickr In 10 Minutes which is a very good book which I read at http://safaribooksonline.com. This book was written a few years ago so some of it might be dated. Flickr is a photo sharing site where people can upload photographs and videos. There are free and paid options. A free account lets you upload 100 MB of photos per month and 2 videos of less than 150 MB per video. A paid which in this book was $24.95 per year lets you upload unlimited photos, videos of less than 500 MB each and also some HD video. People can comment on each others photos and videos and in that sense it is like a social media site. Also Getty Images sometimes contact you and offer to sell your photos on a commision basis if they are really good. Yahoo purchased Flickr and it was rather controversial for some time that everyone on the site was made get a Yahoo ID. There is a software uploadr that you can download for your computer or digital device which will upload your photos to the site. Alternatively you can email them to your account or upload them directly on the website. You can upload them either individually or in bulk. You can also put tags on your photos and videos and can configure them to be seen by either just you, friends, contacts, flickr members or the public. It maybe an idea to limit who can comment. Like a social media you can have friends or followers and there are groups which normally follow a theme like a subject or location. With a free account you can display photos or videos in up to 10 groups and with a paid membership up to 60 groups. The photos and videos are grouped according to safe, moderate and restricted. Moderate is stuff that might offend certain and restricted is stuff that is quite explicit. In some geographical locations you can only search for certain like in Germany restricted content isn’t available. Also if you are underage moderate and restricted content isn’t available. If you don’t label your content appropriately you risk being banned from the site. I did really enjoy reading this book and am very much tempted to join Flickr probably though using a free account.