Meanings
- trademarkAn online social networking service that enables users to share photos.
Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...
2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
plural Flickrs
- informalAn account on Flickr.
Pics up on my Flickr.
2007 February 4, Bella Jones, “Best podcast reader?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet)3 more examples
Seriously, check out pics on my Flickr.
2009, Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin, “The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol”, in Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 34My Flickr has some new pictures of St Stan's in Cleveland, Oh
2011 March 24, Joe, “Honky Express Cd^([sic]) Release Party”, in alt.music.polkas (Usenet)The most complete collection of notgeld online comes courtesy of Brooklynite Miguel Oks, whose German ancestors began archiving the bills in the 1930s—thousands of which you can see on his Flickr.
2013 September 24, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, “The Intricate Makeshift Money Germans Relied On Between World Wars”, in Gizmodo, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2013
Origin
From flick (“photograph”) + -er, suggested as an alteration of flicker by co-founder Caterina Fake after the domain owner of flicker.com refused to sell it.
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