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Usage of Flickr and other photosharing websites

Flickr and other photo sharing sites can be used in multiple ways both professionally and personally. These provide a facility to share the photos thus facilitating social networking and making friends easy. Not only friends but the people of the same family, community, creed, tribe, etc or with common interests can share their photos with utmost ease and without paying a single penny. It also gives professionals an opportunity to share work related photos through these sites. These are also a very good source of enjoyment. Time can be killed effectively and pleasurably through seeing and sharing the photos, videos, comments through these sites. There are number of groups of people with common interests and passions on flickr and on other similar websites which offer numerous ways to share the content including photos, videos, text etc. with optimum liberty. These sites, particularly Flickr, does not allow its users to upload obscene, nude, offensive or the material of the similar nature and at the same time it also protects intellectual property rights by giving the freedom of people to categorize their materials according to their wills. Its upon them whether they allow a free usage of their uploaded photos, videos etc or apply any condition upon them. A very useful feature of all these websites is that no one can access your content without your permission i.e. do not let people see or utilize your stuff by protecting it through the options available at flickr.

Exploring is a wonderful feature of flickr. I love it since it helps a lot in finding right pictures of high resolution. Geotaging, groups are also very good.

I joined two groups:- 1. Libraries and Librarians 2. 365 days library project

Asif

Asif
Originally uploaded by Asif Munir

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

icetracker.com & Google Blogs Directory

• Icetracker.com is a wonderful website. It ranked your blog's usability. it also tells the blogger that how many people have/had visited the blog. There are is difference among hit and visit. According to icetracker.com " Hit is a single load of a blog-page. Visit is an abstract concept that means a groups of hits ( intervals between hits are less than 30 minutes) that made by one real visitor. It also provides various statistics of your blog. one can easily understand usability of a specific blog and ultimately determine reliability and authority of the content available at a particular blog.
• Library and information science under collaborative caontains 58 blogs in google's blogs' directory. This is undoubtedly a good source of information for librarians belong to various kinds of libraries.

Technorati.com: Localize your learnings

• Technorati.com will add a lot of value to my library services. This can be utilized in the provision of various information services. For instance, in providing latest news regarding any topic. it would be useful to wet my findings on any query from various blogs. Replies to questions can be generated from technocrati.com.
• Of course, the ability to monitor people's tags to their conversations & contents definitely offer additional portals to my products and researches. The tags facilitate in searching any contents easily and quickly.
• The information offered by tecnorati.com can be integrated in multiple ways into the research delivered to the users. One can utilize the information on technorati to answer the queries of users. Technorati indexes hundreds and thousands of posts daily being posted on various blogs maintained by professionals and subject specialists. Through technorati, expert opinion can be sought and the information can be incorporated into the research. This will enhance the authenticity of the information.
• How would you maintain authority and reliability to information pulled out of technorati? This question is somewhat difficult to answer. As far as my understanding regarding the authority and reliability of the information pulled from technorati is concerned, the number of people quoting or using the information will determine the reliability of the content. The authority assigned by technorati.com to a blog will also facilitate determining reliability of the information i.e. more the blog is authoritative on technorati, more reliable information it would contain. Further, opinion and comments of experts on the blog will also help in determining reliability and authority of the piece of information.