Tagging and Delicous

Tagging is when one can write something related to a picture, like football if the picture shows a football player, and hyperlinking that word. Flickr uses these words to help in their different searches for pictures like the football player, to make it helpful and easier for someone to search and explore a certain topic. flickr enables the tagging of pictures, facebook allows the tagging of pictures and videos and Delicous allows one to tag bookmarks. Delicous is a social bookmarking website where people tag websites and articles on the web. It was created by a man called Joshua Schacter in 2003 and after catching the eye of yahoo, it was bought by them in 2005 and for $20 million. It has 5 million users and has 150 million bookmarked URL's that have nbeen contributed to the website.

Flickr

Flickr is a website where anyone can share any photo or videos of theirs. As of November 2008 it claims to host more than 3 billion images. It was developed by a company called Ludicorp who are based in Vancouver and it was released in 2004. It was originnaly made from a program software called the GameNeverending, which was a massive online multiplayer game for the whole world to enjoy. What anyone can do is upload a video and allow it to some of their friends or the public if they want their private settings to allow this. Also any of these can be tagged by themselves and they can also have GPS satellites which can track down their positions to enormous accuracy.

FAcebook Privacy

I think that when one is on a social networking site one should always know all of the privacy settings are to their own standard and how they want them to be as if something goes wrong and many people are allowed access to one's own facebook profile there can be disastrous consequences. ONe must know who their own friends are and how to keep themselvbes safe one sites like facebook as when one is your apparent friend bad things are liable to happen.