What else does Flickr offer?
Flickr’s snazzy photo-sharing features set it apart from the dozens of other photography sites. Friends can check out newly posted pictures via searching and add their own “notes” to photos they like. One distinctive tool lets bloggers simultaneously post photos on their own blogs and at Flickr. It also uses a tool called “tagging” — adding a few words of text to each posted photo — so that a picture can be easily searched online. Trip Hosley, co-owner of San Francisco club Shine, became a fan after his brother, Nate, became a father for the second time and tagged pictures of the newborn “Deuce” at the Flickr site. “Within an hour of the birth, there were 100 pictures online that all our family and friends could see, instantly, just by searching for ‘Deuce,’ ” he says. Hosley even installed a photo booth at Shine where patrons can sit and snap their own pictures and have them instantly uploaded to Flickr. ‘Getting’ it Yahoo bought the company as much for Fake and Butterfield as it did
