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Image and video hosting website
Flickr is an image and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was for a time a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. Flickr was owned by Yahoo! from 2005 and has been owned by SmugMug since 2018. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FlickrA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Crowdsourcing social values data: Flickr and public participation GIS provide different perspectives of ecosystem services in a remote coastal regionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Flickr HacksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areasCited 392 times
- Go sideways: Yahoo PhotosA closely related topic
- Go sideways: PicnikA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas
Spatial, temporal, and socioeconomic patterns in the use of Twitter and Flickr
Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as platforms of alternative journalism: The social media account of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests
Social Ties and User Content Generation: Evidence from Flickr
Flickr and the culture of connectivity: Sharing views, experiences, memories
Methods for extracting place semantics from Flickr tags
Evaluating the aesthetic value of cultural ecosystem services by mapping geo-tagged photographs from social media data on Panoramio and Flickr
Tourist clusters from Flickr travel photography
🆕 Influential since 2022
Crowdsourcing social values data: Flickr and public participation GIS provide different perspectives of ecosystem services in a remote coastal region
The rise and fall of the social media platform Flickr: Implications for nature recreation research
Using Flickr Data to Understand Image of Urban Public Spaces with a Deep Learning Model: A Case Study of the Haihe River in Tianjin
A text and image analysis workflow using citizen science data to extract relevant social media records: Combining red kite observations from Flickr, eBird and iNaturalist
Snapshots of nature: Harnessing Flickr data to frame sustainable brand positioning strategies for Thailand's national parks
📚 Books worth reading
Flickr HacksPaul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner · 2006
The Art of Capacity PlanningJohn Allspaw · 2008
Sams teach yourself Flickr in 10 minutesSteven Holzner · 2010
Building Flickr Applications with PHPRob Kunkle, Andrew Morton · 2006
Flickr cofounder and Web community creator Caterina FakePatricia Wooster · 2014
500 Internet hints, tips, and techniquesDan Oliver · 2008- 📕Il turismo fotograficoGian Pietro Zaccomer · 2019
How to use FlickrRichard P. Giles · 2006
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