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Flickr and Picasa
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3. • Image Hosting and Video Hosting website
• Created by Ludicorp in 2004, acquired by Yahoo in 2005 (for $28
Million)
• Popular website to share & embed personal photographs
• Service widely used by photo researchers & bloggers
• In 2013: Verge (Tech. news & media N/W) reported total 87 Million
registered users & more than 3.5 Million images uploaded daily
• Existing content can be accessed without creating an account
• Users need to create an account to upload content

4. • Available for iOS, Android,
PlayStation Vita & Windows
• Provide backup for all
photographs: 1000 GB free
storage
• In-app filters available for clicking
photographs
• In-app image and video editing
tools available
• In-app plugin for sharing to
Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and
other social networking websites

5. Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS, Android, PlayStation, and Windows
Phone operating systems, and an optimized mobile website
Offers 3 types of accounts for users:
•Free
1 TB of storage limited to 200 MB per photo and 1 GB per video with
maximum length of 3 minutes
•Ad free
Avoid advertisements for an annual fee
•Doublr
twice the storage of a free account

6. The basis of a Flickr
account is
"photostream“, The
images a Flickr
photographer uploads go
into their sequential
"photostream“

7. 4 types of displays-
•Justified view
•Slide show
•Detail view
•Date stamped archive
Folksonomy
(collaborative tagging)
Geotagging- Can be
related to a map using
imapflickr. The resulting map
can be embedded in a website

8. Aviary
It is the default photo editor
of flickr
Guest Pass
Allows private photos to be
shared with non-flickr users

9. Flickr groups
Fellow members can share photographs around common interest
Content filtering
Based on security there are three categories
•Safe
•Moderate
•Restricted

10. •Flicker offers the users to have Copyright or Creative Common
Licenses.
•The users can decide how their upload can be shared if it can
be at all.
•Users can also upload content without any restrictions at all.
•The unrestricted access feature is used by many museums to
bring forth the hidden treasures of the world to all the people.

11. • Flickr has 3 revenue sources:
o Paid Membership
o Advertisements
o Exhibitions
• The free membership has 1TB of free storage but many
ads. The paid model at $50 per year provides users ad
free experience and 1TB additional storage space.
• Virtually unlimited storage space means more videos
and photos and thus more traffic resulting into more
advertisements.
• Popular photos are used by Flickr for exhibitions to gain
publicity and revenue.

12. • Individuals and enterprises can use Flickr as a source of
publicity by using photoblogging for instance.
• Individuals and enterprises can join relevant groups and
upload content to improve visibility.
• Apps can be made which can borrow images from Flickr.
Like the launcher apps.
• Camera manufactures can make albums to show their new
launches by creating albums containing photos clicked
using their camera.
• Camera manufacturers can analyze the usage and
competition for their cameras by using data from Flickr.
• Analytics companies can use Flickr data to perform
researches and sell to enterprises that have use of these
insights.

13. • Picasa is an image organizer and viewer for organizing and editing
digital photos.
• It is also an photo sharing website.
• Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape (creator ) and started offering it
as “freeware”.
• The name Picasa comes from the famous Spanish painter “Pablo
Picasa” and the phrase mi casa and “pic” for pictures.
• It was first released in the year 2002.
• The application is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7,
Mac OS X
• The latest version for Windows is 3.9 and Mac is 3.9 which was launched
on 13th
August 2014.

14.  This feature of Picasa is compared to Flickr.
 It is an image hosting and sharing web service from Google.
 Users can use their Google Account to store and share photos with an
initial free storage of 15 GB.
 Pictures can be uploaded through a variety of ways:
 PWA web interface on supported browsers
 Picasa 2.5 or later on Microsoft Windows
 Using the Exporter for iPhoto
 the Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in
 Uploader on Mac OS X
 Google integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google+ 2013 and released
the statement: “Google + is the new home for your photos”
 Google still seems committed to the Picasa desktop Application

16. • Viewing
o No separate view window
o An edit window with a viewing area
• Backup
o In Picasa 2 and earlier versions, changes to pictures made in Picasa overwrite the
original file, but a backup version of the original is saved in a hidden folder named
"Originals" in the same folder as the original picture
o In Picasa 3, changes to pictures made in Picasa are saved to a hidden
file picasa.ini in the same folder as the original picture
o This allows multiple edits to be performed without altering the original image
• Face Recognition
o Acquired Neven Vision
o Used its technology to search for features within photos such as people or buildings
o Google applied this technology for face recognition
• Geotagging

17.  Picasa gives freemium pricing model which can be used by
Businesses for promotion and branding
 Web albums created in Picasa can be integrated with business’s
websites.
 Useful for microsites and one page websites to embed a slideshow
from albums created by flickr
 Brand building by using integration with social networking platform
Google+. Both employees and customers that are in your Google+
circle can also view and share any photos that you upload
 Blogger owned by Google, is the only blogging platform on which
photos can be uploaded directly using Picasa in the form of plain
photos, slideshows and catalogs.

18. V/sV/s
Feature Flickr Picasa
API
Yes, mature and comprehensive Yes, but with fewer options than
Flickr's API
Storage limits
1 TB for free accounts. 1 GB free, can pay $5 per year for
20 GB additional storage
Free account
limits
1 TB storage; max file size for photo is 200 MB 1 GB storage; number of photos
or videos not limited. Max file
size for photo is 20 MB.
Organizing
photos
Photos on Flickr are organized into sets and
collections.
Photos on Picasa are organized
into albums.
Owner Yahoo! Inc. Google Inc
Created by Ludicorp Idealab
Pricing
$49.99 per year to remove ads $2.49 per month for 25GB
storage.
Commercial? Yes Yes

19. Feature Flickr Picasa
Created by Ludicorp Idealab
Pricing
$49.99 per year to remove ads $2.49 per month for 25GB
storage.
Commercial? Yes Yes
Type of site
Photo/Video hosting service Photo/Video hosting service
Allows sharing
Yes, including embedded
slideshows
Yes, including embedded
slideshows
URL www.flickr.com picasaweb.google.com
Allows geotagging Yes Yes
Allows Tagging of photos Yes Yes