![]() ![]() The team also hoped to bring cross-cultural usability studies up-to-date with the latest trends on the internet. The aim of the research was to investigate how the design of increasing popular socially driven websites, like Flickr, addresses new challenges with regard to cross-cultural differences and localisation. Whether or not their analysis applies to equivalent sites such as Google's Picasa Web Albums or Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery is a different matter. In a scientific research paper entitled: "A cross-cultural analysis of Flickr users from Peru, Israel, Iran, Taiwan and the UK", Amir Dotan and Panayiotis Zaphiris of the Centre for HCI Design, at City University London, UK, have taken a whirlwind world tour to try and discover what kinds of people use Flickr and how. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social claims to host more than 4 billion images.īut, given the advent of Facebook and other social media sites that also allow image sharing, one has to wonder who is using Flickr? Flickr is the perfect way to share them.įlickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. It also acts as a neat resource for finding Creative Commons images for use on blogs and other sites. ![]() , in case you didn't know, is an online photo repository, it's now part of Yahoo, but nevertheless remains an incredibly popular site for sharing photos and creating galleries. ![]()
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