Flickr | Photo & Video-sharing Platform

Flickr, photo- and video-sharing website owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco. Ad-supported and free to the public, it allows users to upload photos or videos from their computers to share online either publicly or privately. Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite. It was founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake in 2002.It is also an online community platform, which is considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. As per company’s website, “Flickr – almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world – has two main goals: 1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video. Flickr continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better. “