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I spoke with someone this weekend who had never heard of Flickr, and wasn’t really aware of how, why or where anyone would upload and share photos on the web. Honestly, I was shocked, and not simply because this person was in his early 30s rather than his late 70s.

Approximately 25 million people visit Flickr.com each month, in the US alone, and the site is certainly a global phenomenon that was instrumental in defining the concept of web 2.0. For many, Flickr was their first introduction to the concept of “sharing” information on the web, and it turned something that used to be very difficult (distributing your digital photos to anyone) into a spectacularly easy task. In turn, the reason we find it so easy to use Facebook and other social networking tools has a lot to do with Flickr having made us comfortable with participation in large online communities.

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