Flickr

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Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. Flick... more

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Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur. Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. Fake is the co-founder of Hunch, a collective intelligence decision-making system that uses decision trees...

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  • YHOO

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  • Share Your Photos. Watch The World.

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  • 2005

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  • Feb 2004
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