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MANAGING THE DIGITAL ENTERPRISE

MICHAEL RAPPA

CASE STUDY: FLICKR

About Flickr

Flickr is a photo management and sharing web site with over 200,000 members that allows users to upload photos and put together photo albums that can be annotated with "tags" and shared. Founded in 2002 by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield and originally based out of Vancouver, Canada, Flickr was purchased by Yahoo! in March 2005. [Source: Flickr, CNET, August 2005]

Things to read:

• About Flickr
• Wikipedia: Flickr
• What is Flickr: A Quick Tour
• Shedding light on Flickr: A video interview with Caterina Fake.
• Yahoo's game of photo tag by Stefanie Olsen.
• Reinventing a category whose flashbulb burnt out: A "Fast 50" interview with Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield.
• Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye by David Weinberger.
• 'Tagging' gives Web a Human Meaning by Daniel Terdiman.

Questions to consider:

The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
Scott A. Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman | 08.12.2005

Folksonomies: Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
Adam Mathes | 01.15.2005

In the news:

Flickr Newsroom

Latest news from Google

Folksonomy

Metadata

Tags