Since I have been using Yahoo Mail for years, I checked my account and found I signed up for Flickr in 2002! For this assignment, I decided to create a new account anyway. What I noticed was, unlike Google, Yahoo keeps asking for your password when you go from one thing to another on the Yahoo site. What a pain! Maybe I will use Google and Picasa in the future.
For the second task, I uploaded some pictures, setting some to private and some to public with the tag Newington23. I then did a search did not see my photos. I checked the FAQ and found out that it can take 24-48 hours before photos appear in search results. I spent too much time checking out some of the Flickr Tools, but I enjoyed Flickr Memry on pimpampum.net and Jigsaw on Big Huge Labs.
I can see how teachers could post photographs to Flickr and use them as the starting point for classroom discussions. Actually, with two billion images available, you would not need to post anything! If what you want is not on Flickr, it probably does not exist. Like everything else on the Internet, it would have to be done with care.
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