It's a great, albeit older article about Flickr from a database perspective.
I'll be talking about it in class on Thursday. I'd like to discuss other applications that you use everyday that are databases or tied to databases.
When we talk about things like Flickr, and Snapfish, and iTunes and other commonly used everyday applications, we keep discussing the same topics, and how the data is relational.
I tend to describe the database as the "engine under the hood" of most applications, as it processes the majority of the information that is being requested by users of the application.
However, this class is Information Systems and Operations Management. Not a course on Database Management, so I don't want us to focus too much on the database aspects. What I do want us to focus on is the business needs, and business impacts.
Flickr is a good example (believe it or not) from a business perspective due to the overarching reach of blogging. You can search the web and find someone blogging on almost any topic. Flickr is very commonly used as a repository for graphics to be used in blogs. It is a great repository for standard, stock images, that get used over and over again.
Have you used Flickr? If so, how? And how do you feel your use of Flickr relates to this class?
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