Thing 3: Playing with Flickr

It took a small startup site called Flickr (and now owned by Yahoo) to catapult the idea of “photo sharing websites” into a full blown online community. You can show your photos to the world, share them privately with friends, use tools to crop or edit photos and manage them into groups. A basic flickr account is free and an easy way to share photos with friends.

Flickr uses "tags" or what we would call keywords to help identify and search for photos. Find out how tags work and what groups are.

Following are some optional discovery resources that you may find useful:

• Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
• Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days
• Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups) andhere's another Flickr site that lets you create movie posters, CD covers, magazine covers and so on.
  

Discovery Exercise:

1. Watch online photosharing in plain english to get an overview of Flickr. Then take the Flickr Learn More tour to find out more about other features.
   
   
2. Search for photos that interest you. If you have time... create your own free Flickr account
   
   
3. Post a comment below post and tell us about your experience....what you liked...what you didn't....if you would set up your own account etc