SAN FRANCISCO--In return for the huge amount of work Flickr users do to tag photos on the popular photo-sharing site, they should get the benefit of the algorithms the service uses to bring meaning to ...

Photo-sharing site has a new credit system for user-generated photo tags, taking away the anonymity users had in adding tags to other people's photos and videos. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and ...

The Flickr tag system is great. I find it easier to find pictures on Flickr than on my own computer, and that's where the problem arises. Sure, I know I can tag files on my PC also, but I want to ...

It’s little wonder that Flickr has become the photo-sharing Web site of choice for so many digital photographers. In a matter of minutes, you can set up a free account, upload photos, and invite ...

Do you tag your photos on Flickr? If you are a loyal tagger, you may consider yourself member of a small groups of Flickr users. One that has however, “an outsized influence on the overall Flickr ...

Flickr’s auto-recognition tool for sorting photos appears to be identifying people as animals and the gates of Dachau as a jungle gym. The tool — which Flickr admits is still getting things wrong and ...