Using Flickr

*Some more WEB 2.0 Stuff!*

Before this assignment, I had seen and heard of Flickr before but I had never signed up for an account or anything of that nature. I must say, using Flickr was pretty easy and simple to follow along. The only real gripe that I had, which I am not sure if it was due to a bad wifi connection, but I experienced a lot of glitches and errors when I was trying to navigate through the site.

It may have been an abnormal circumstance, but aside from that, Flickr gets an A for effort for being an easy site to share photos and create photo book creations on.

Additionally, there were users with some amazing displays of photography, I mean really professional works of art that was nice to scroll through and enjoy. (And as for how many used the same tag word that I did, there were 2,921,075 photos tagged with "web"!)

UPDATE ON FLICKR ISSUES.... As I mentioned I was having lots of issues with the website, for instance, when I searched for other images with the same tag as what my photos were tagged with, the page kept timing out. Then, shortly there after, the entire website was down and my Internet browser could not pull it up. Well, I took matters into my own hands, and googled "Flickr issues" and a nifty little website called downdetector.com came up with an up-to-date status on any reported issues with the site. Low and behold, people all over the world, from Portland, Oregon to Helsinki, Finland were reporting the same exact issues that I was experiencing. Also, there reports were all in the last few minutes, with one reading "a few seconds ago". It was reassuring to see that I wasn't the only one, but also very cool to see collective intelligence coming together.