?– Caution In the following analysis of Flickr, I answer many but not necessarily all the questions listed earlier
in the chapter. I??™ll answer some of the questions later in the book. Moreover, it??™s important to understand
that since Flickr is a constantly evolving web site, any of the details recorded here about Flickr can become
out of date. My hope is to provide you with enough ways to think about web sites so that you will be able to
adapt to those changes.
Resources in Flickr
Let me now explain Flickr in terms of its URI language, detailing resources and their corresponding
URIs. As you use Flickr as an end user and think about its functionality in terms of
key entities, you will probably come up with a list similar to the following:
??? Users (or people) ??? Notes
??? Photos ??? Comments (for both photosets and photos)
??? Tags ??? Licenses
??? Archives ??? Prefs
??? Sets (which are also called photosets) ??? Groups
??? Collections ??? Contacts
??? Favorites ??? Blogs
??? Geo
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This list is meant to cover the broad range of what Flickr does, but I??™m not attempting to
be exhaustive. Remember that there are different ways to slice the pie, so any listing of resources
won??™t necessarily agree. We will end up agreeing on how the URLs are structured, though.
How did I come up with this list?
??? I used Flickr, looking at each piece of functionality available to me.
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