Flickr
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From flicker, suggested by co-founder Caterina Fake after the domain owner of flicker.com refused to sell it.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Flickr
- (trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to share photos.
- 2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:
- Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Daniel Sieberg (2007 April 26) “Flickr On The Fly: Founder Of Photo-Sharing Service Chats With Daniel Sieberg”, in CBS News[1], archived from the original on 2007-05-28: “The domain owner of "flicker.com" wouldn’t sell, so Caterina [Fake] suggested "Flickr," which [Stewart] Butterfield says made the service stand out.”
