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Flickr

Flickr (/ˈflɪkər/ ⓘ FLIK-ər) 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…

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Key facts & relationships

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Founded
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2004; 22 years ago (2004))
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Available in
Chinese (traditional) · English · French · German · Indonesian
Commercial
Yes
Created by
Stewart Butterfield Caterina Fake
IPv6 support
Yes

Topics to explore

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Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.

Flickr

Nodes127
Edges126
Triples210
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015748
Components1

How this topic connects Entity context

Quick relationship hints grouped by predicate. Useful for spotting recurring semantic connections around the current entity.

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Flickr

Top relations

related to Interaction and compatibility · 34
Flickr → According, Ajax, Apache, API, Atom, August, Based, CVSup, Flickr's, Ganglia, Geo, Greasemonkey, HTML, HTTP, ImageMagick, Images, In, Java, Linux-based, Memcached
related to Licensing · 22
Flickr → According, As, Congress, Creative Commons, Denmark, George Eastman Museum, Library, Nationaal Archief, National Archives, National Library, National Museum, New South Wales, On January, Participants, Powerhouse Museum, Records Administration, Scotland, Several, Smithsonian Institution, State Library
related to Copyright enforcement · 21
Flickr → After, BBC, British, Dave Gorman, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Even, Flickr Pro, Gorman, He, In, Limitation Act, Michael Arrington, OCILLA, Online Copyright Infringement Liability, Shortly, Some, TechCrunch, Under OCILLA
related to history · 17
Flickr → Butterfield, Caterina Fake, Early, February, Flickr's, FlickrLive, Game Neverending, Game Neverending's, Glitch, It, Key, Ludicorp, Ludicorp's Game Neverending, November, Stewart Butterfield, The, Vancouver-based
related to Censorship · 12
Flickr → Flickr's, German, Germany, Hong Kong, Initial, Korea, Many Flickr, On June, Simultaneously, Singapore, The, Yahoo
related to Reception · 12
Flickr → Alexa Rank, By, Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr's Alexa Rank, However, In, Initially, Instagram, Internet, Web, Yahoo
related to Corporate changes · 11
Flickr → Brad Garlinghouse, Butterfield, Caterina Fake, CNET, July, November, On December, On June, Stewart Butterfield, The Guardian, Yahoo
Available in · 10
Flickr → Chinese (traditional), English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese
related to Sale of Creative Commons-licensed photos · 10
Flickr → Although, By, Creative Commons, Creative Commons-licensed, Flickr General Manager Bernardo, Hernandez, In November, On December, Subsequently, Yahoo
related to Filtering · 9
Flickr → German, Germany, Hong Kong, In, In March, Individual, South Korea, The, Users

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

photos users images yahoo photo may site new content free 2019 members upload smugmug image user copyright accounts service march

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.
SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
FlickrAvailable inChinese (traditional)1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inFrench1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inGerman1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inIndonesian1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inItalian1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inKorean1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inPortuguese1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inSpanish1.00infobox
FlickrAvailable inVietnamese1.00infobox
FlickrCommercialYes1.00infobox
FlickrCreated byStewart Butterfield Caterina Fake1.00infobox
FlickrFoundedVancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2004; 22 years ago (2004))1.00infobox
FlickrHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States1.00infobox
FlickrIPv6 supportYes1.00infobox
FlickrLaunchedFebruary 10, 2004; 22 years ago (2004-02-10)1.00infobox
FlickrParentLudicorp (2004–2005) Yahoo! Inc. (2005–2017) Oath (2017–2018) SmugMug (2018–present)1.00infobox
FlickrRegistrationRequired1.00infobox
FlickrType of siteImage and video hosting service1.00infobox
FlickrURLflickr.com1.00infobox
FlickrUsers112 million1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

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    Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

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