Friday, November 21, 2008

Flickr - Connecting, Sharing, and Applying the Concept of Digital Property Rights




What is it?

Flickr is an online photo-management tool, that contains 100 million photographs. Flickr provides image sharing capabilities to a community of users.

How does this service allow you to manage your photographs and videos?
  • You can Upload images from many locations (i.e, email, iPhoto, Flickr webpage, etc.)

  • You can Edit your images by cropping, adding text, etc.

  • You can Organize your images by creating collections or sets of similar photographs,and add timestamps to them.

  • You can Share your images with others and add privacy attributes such as a Creative Commons license agreement.

  • You can attach geographically Map your photos to the locations.

  • You can Create digital stories,photo books, image cards, ImageKind prints.

Flickr was one of the emerging technologies used to tell the stories of Election day events (click here).