Flickr Info: Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web hosting suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo! In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs.
Institutions: Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created by Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web based massively multilayer online game, Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.
Purpose: The service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. In September 2010, it reported that it was hosting more than 5 billion images.
Target Audience: Flickr mainly targets photographers, amateur and professional - it allows them to share and post there images to the site and people from all over the world can access them and admire the photographers work. But other than that Flickr is used commonly by everyday people for example teens posting party photo's on there.
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