Yahoo! Hacks

Store, Sort, and Share Your Photos

Flickr makes it easy to share your photos with the world.

At its most basic, Flickr is a web application that helps you create a public journal of photos. You can upload your photos to Flickr and see them appear on a web page with the most recently added photo on top. But once you start playing with Flickr, you’ll quickly find that it’s much more sophisticated. In fact, Flickr is an open platform for storing, arranging, sharing, discussing, and discovering photos with people across the globe.

What began as an independent project by a small company called Ludicorp was recently purchased by Yahoo! and is in the process of being integrated more closely with Yahoo!. At the time of this writing, Flickr is still very much an independent application, and you’ll need your own Flickr account to upload photos (a Yahoo! ID will not work). You can create a free Flickr account by browsing to http://www.flickr.com and clicking the pink “Sign up now!” button.

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A basic Flickr account is free, lets you upload up to 20 MB in photos per month, show up to 200 of your photos, and create three individual galleries (which Flickr calls sets). You can also upgrade to a paid Flickr Pro account, which gives you much more storage and unlimited sets. At the time of this writing, a Flickr Pro account is $24.95 per year.

Once you’ve created an account, you can add some information about yourself to your profile that will tell others a bit about you. Flickr is a social application, ...