Flickr.com is one of the most popular websites today in the category of photo-sharing. It allows users to upload pictures onto its website in order to share it with others. Flickr gives users the ability to organize photoes that they have uploaded into specific categories and add tags. These specific categories and tags allow for easier searching in that they are used to narrow down certain aspecs of the picture. Flickr also allows users to edit pictures that they have uploaded to the website such as cropping photos. Flikr is continuously expanding it's potential and uses every day in order to make it easier for users to share photos.
Three enables that allow Flikr.com to provide these services are Uploading, Work flow software, and The steroids.
Uploading:
The use of uploading on Flickr.com is provided because the general aspect for the site its self is to be able to upload photos to one,single, centralized database in order to share photos from one location. This allows for photos to be sent from many media devices such as a cell phone or a computer. The use of a centralized database allows for storage and maintenance to be more managable because instead of having multipul domains, there is just one, which allows for all effort to be put into one location.
Work flow software:
The use of work flow software allows Flickr.com to provide these many services in that they must create a standard so that computers all over the world can understand and colaborate in order to use the website. This allows for any computer to understand the format of the website and allows for anyone to view it on their computer. An example of this would be that Flickr has certain standards for picture size in which there is a maximum size for files that users may upload. This standard is in place because having huge files or pictures may "bog down" the site its self or other users computers.
The steroids:
"The steroids" are used by Flickr.com because it allows for files to be viewed by many users and many devices. The steroids have also been used in order to increase ease of editing and uploading to the website aswell as setting standards to their uploading maximum file size. Flickr has also been able to expand their network by advertising and also increasing the speed and ease of access to the website.
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