Flickr is a successful image and video hosting website created by Daniel Butterfield through his Ludicorp Company in 2004. Launched on February 10th that year, the service enables users to share and embed photographs through their accounts.
For sharing or uploading photos and videos on Flickr, users need to have an account. The user also gets to control privacy settings and decide whether the image should go ‘public’ or be restricted to just within the contact circle.
The service allows users to release their images either under common usage licenses, or with copyrights reserved.
As of August 2011, Flickr is known to have hosted more than 6 million images. By March 2013, it had a total of 87 million registered members, and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily.
The creation of Flickr brought global recognition to Daniel Butterfield.