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Q: Combined users of del.icio.us and flickr.com ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Combined users of del.icio.us and flickr.com
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: noplay-ga
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Posted: 20 Nov 2005 07:24 PST
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Question ID: 595424
I am trying to estimate the market for social Web 2.0 applications

How many people use del.icio.us?
How many people use flickr.com?
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Subject: Re: Combined users of del.icio.us and flickr.com
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 20 Nov 2005 08:43 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
According to the December 2005 Issue of Business 2.0, Flickr currently
has 1.5 million users.


The Flickrization of Yahoo

?What Yang envies is the community of 1.5 million rabidly loyal users
Flickr has cultivated and the vast amount of content they?ve created.
Of the 60 million photos uploaded to the site so far, more than 80
percent are public, meaning that anyone can look at them. More than
half have been "tagged" with user-created labels, making them
searchable. To use Flickr is to belong to the culture of participation
sweeping the Web -- where you write your own blog, produce your own
podcast, and post your personal photos for all to see. If this is
where the Web is going, Yang wants to make sure Yahoo gets there
first.?

Business 2.0 Media Inc
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,1129448,00.html



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Del.icio.us has 200,000 subscribers according to an article published
in Business Week on September 25, 2005 and an article in the New York
Times published in October.

The  Businessweek article states  "the power of del.icio.us stems from
the clicking keyboards of its many members. The service was a
homegrown project created in late 2003 by Joshua Schachter, an analyst
at Morgan Stanley, to track and share bookmarks. As the system took
off, Schachter quit his job and raised venture funding. Now, 200,000
subscribers busily label online articles, blog postings, and more.
They use tags like "katrina," often adding comments such as "Pictures
of before and after. Very good." The process creates a mountain of
information subscribers can explore.Now, companies are figuring out
ways to take advantage of this phenomenon. As they tag, subscribers
end up collectively highlighting changing trends and raging
discussions all available at the del.icio.us site. Increasingly,
innovative advertisers and other companies are trying to make sense of
these discussions".

BusinessWeek: September 26, 2005 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952408.htm



From a The New York Times article October 5, 2005:

del.icio.us - 200,000  users

?Its intent is to allow users to create Web pages of personal
bookmarks accessible from anywhere, share them with other users and
view  others' bookmarks. The site, started in September 2003, has
200,000  users, said its founder, Joshua Schachter.?

The New York Times
'Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale'
By ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL
Published: October 5, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/techspecial/05ethan.html&OQ=thQ3DQ26emcQ3DthQ26pagewantedQ3Dprint&OP=7309f5afQ2FD1HiD,g6UwggQ5DvDv--ADQ7E-D-ADQ5DH6zQ3AgQ5Eg2EDQ5DH6zUcH6T8Q5ED-AHQ5Dz8Q3AQ25zQ5DdQ5E

A free copy is available here:
http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2005-October/002006.html


Search criteria:
"Del.icio.us "   "200000..900000 subscribers OR users OR members " 
Flickr  " * million  subscribers OR users OR members " 

I hope this helps!

Best regards,
Bobbie7
noplay-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $3.00
Excellent! Very helpful:)

Comments  
Subject: Re: Combined users of del.icio.us and flickr.com
From: bobbie7-ga on 20 Nov 2005 09:26 PST
 
Thank you for the five stars and tip!
--Bobbie7

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