Flickr offers many different services to its users. Their services include online photo sharing (upload and share pictures), "Tags" (label photos to a category), clustering (putting multiple tags together to see multiple photos), "interestingness" (rate pictures), photo manipulation (cropping the photo), "creative commons" (copyright protection), Application Program Interfaces (uploading apps for different devices), and OpenID (saves IDs and passwords).
There are 3 enablers that allow Flickr.com to provide the services they do: Uploading, In-forming, and Steroids. Uploading is the enabler that Flickr.com revolves around. Flickr needs uploading in order to have pictures posted up on their website. The second enabler is In-forming. Yahoo! purchased Flickr and helped it grow to what it has become today. Yahoo! uses Flickr sometimes to bring up images in its search engine. The third enabler is Steroids. The APIs develop uploading applications so multiple devices can upload pictures.
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