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96-415: The product line focuses on brick-built portraits. Each set measures over 5 inches (13 cm) high, 3 inches (9 cm) wide and 1 inch (3 cm) deep and contains at least 170 pieces. Built upon 12 × 16 baseplates, each portrait is formed using either round 1 × 1 tiles or round 1 × 1 plates. It also includes a retractable stand for desktop display and a 2 × 2 inch coupling plate to hang

192-587: A Creative Commons Attribution license requiring that the original photographers be credited. Flickr later created a new license which identified them as " United States Government Work ", which does not carry any copyright restrictions. In March 2015, Flickr added the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark and Creative Commons Zero (CC0) to its licensing options. The Public Domain Mark is meant for images that are no longer protected by copyright. CC0

288-526: A counter-notice . Shortly afterward, Flickr changed its policy. Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company . As the longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse , she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, white bloomers and yellow low-heeled shoes occasionally with ribbons on them. The comic strip story "Mr. Slicker and

384-463: A damsel in distress whom Mickey tries to rescue. She is also subject to a lot of slapstick and rubber hose animation gags. Over the course of the 1930s, Minnie's and Mickey's relationship solidified and they eventually became a steady couple. Minnie was first seen in a test screening of the cartoon short Plane Crazy . Minnie is invited to join Mickey in the first flight of his aircraft. She accepts

480-504: A " bow-tique " selling bows like the ones she and Daisy wear. In season 2 of Bow-Toons , she displays high physical strength and balance at least twice, able to balance her entire bodyweight in a 1-finger handstand . In the 2013 Mickey Mouse television series and its 2020 spinoff The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse , she exhibits the ability to survive her head coming off, doing a 360 degree flip and re-attaching itself, which can happen when she feels surprised. In 2017, as part of

576-517: A brick canvas of 12 x 16 inches, roughly the same size as his friends' ink sketches. He then assembles the piece by hand. McVeigh explained that the process is more restrictive than with markers as "it's always a challenge to find just the right combination of plates to represent a specific character," and "not all parts are available in all colors, and worse yet, I may not have all the parts on hand." McVeigh explained how he turns his own designs into official Lego products: "The challenge of Brick Sketches

672-531: A character like Batman who doesn't really exist without the cowl". He said this was continued for other characters, such as the Joker, the First Order Stormtrooper and BB-8 with his "ball body". He said that the coloured backgrounds were changed from plates to tiles to give some texture variation. He also said that one of the earliest decisions was that the backgrounds would remain with cut corners because "that

768-418: A combination of blue, black or green (when not depicted in black and white). Minnie's early personality is cute, playful, musical and flirtatious. She often portrays an entertainer like a dancer or a musician whose affection Mickey is trying to win. Part of the comedy of these early shorts is the varying degree of success Mickey has in wooing Minnie. Unlike later cartoons after the redesign, Minnie often becomes

864-525: A few major roles in some Pluto and Figaro cartoons during the 1940s. Minnie made a sort of comeback in the 1980s when she was re-introduced in Mickey's Christmas Carol and then got her own starring role in Totally Minnie . On January 1, 2024, the copyrights of the first three animated Mickey Mouse cartoons and their portrayal of Mickey and Minnie Mouse expired, and they entered the public domain . They are

960-579: A free account's older content would be deleted automatically if it contains more than 1,000 photos and they do not subscribe to the paid service tier, with the exception of content that was already uploaded with a Creative Commons copyright license before November 1, 2018. The paid option features "unlimited" storage, advanced statistics, advertising-free browsing, videos up to 10 minutes in length, "premier" customer service, and promotional offers with other partners. In May 2011, Flickr added an option to easily reverse an account termination, motivated by

1056-477: A maximum of 1,000 pictures. The deadline was later extended to March 12, 2019. The reasons cited were that the existing model was unsustainable by a medium-sized company which could not get revenues by selling profiles of the users. The sentiment was generally agreed on among the professionals. This policy, however, was never implemented and was abandoned in March, 2022 in favor of a policy that restricted content unless

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1152-427: A month (from 20 MB) and were removed from Flickr Pro accounts, which originally had a 2 GB per month limit. On April 9, 2008, Flickr began allowing paid subscribers to upload videos, limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size. On March 2, 2009, Flickr added the facility to upload and view HD videos , and began allowing free users to upload normal-resolution video. At the same time, the set limit for free accounts

1248-466: A peg-leg). Mickey again comes to the rescue. The short is considered significant for being the last short featuring Mickey and Minnie to be animated by Ub Iwerks . The Shindig (July 11, 1930) featured Minnie joining Mickey, Horace and Clarabelle in a barn dance. Among them, Clarabelle seems to be the actual star of the short. Director Burt Gillett turned in another enjoyable entry in the series, proving that production could go on without Iwerks. This

1344-717: A punishment. She appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in a role mirroring that in the film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers , where she is referred to as Princess Minnie and rules a world called the Country of the Musketeers. By this, it is inferred that she, not Mickey, is the rightful ruler of Disney Castle, which is why he leaves her in charge. She makes a brief appearance in Kingdom Hearts III , welcoming Mickey, Donald and Goofy back to Disney Castle. In

1440-450: A scrolling home page (mainly of contacts photos and comments) and updated Android app. The Justified View is paginated between 72 and 360 photos per page but unpaginated in search result presentation. Tech Radar described the new style Flickr as representing a "sea change" in its purpose. Many users criticized the changes, and the site's help forum received thousands of negative comments. On March 25, 2014, Flickr's New Photo Experience,

1536-490: A single niece, Melody, appears. In many appearances, Minnie is presented as the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse, best friend of Daisy Duck and a friend to Clarabelle Cow . In honor of her 90th anniversary, on January 22, 2018, she joined the ranks of other animated celebrities by receiving her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . She was the sixth Disney character to receive this honor. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck , Winnie

1632-469: A specific license. On January 16, 2008, Flickr launched a program called "The Commons on Flickr." Several international cultural institutions share images using a "no known copyright restrictions" through the program. According to Flickr, the goal of the program is to "firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer." Participants include

1728-420: A total of 112 million registered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily. On August 5, 2011, the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images. In 2024 it was reported as having shared 10 billion photos and accepting 25 million per day, Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account, but an account must be made to upload content to

1824-480: A user interface redesign, left beta. On May 7, 2015, Yahoo! overhauled the site, adding a revamped Camera Roll, a new way to upload photos, and upgraded the site's apps. The new Uploadr application was made available for Macs, Windows and mobile devices. In 2018, Yahoo! (owned by Verizon at that point) sold Flickr to SmugMug . In early May 2019, SmugMug announced the migration of Flickr data, involving 100+ million accounts and billions of photos and videos, from

1920-431: A wall. In August 2021, The Lego Group announced the First Order Stormtrooper (set number: 40391) was retired on 31 December 2021. Released on 1 June 2020, The Joker (set number: 40428) is based on the fictional DC Comics supervillain , The Joker . It consists of 170 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. In August 2021, The Lego Group announced The Joker (set number: 40428)

2016-554: A wave into the sea. She panics terribly and seems to start drowning. Mickey uses a rowboat to rescue her and return her to the shore, but Minnie is still visibly shaken from the experience. Mickey starts singing the tune of "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep", a maritime ballad, in an apparent effort to cheer her up. Minnie cheers up and the short ends. This is the second time Minnie is placed in danger and then saved by her new boyfriend. It wouldn't be

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2112-505: A way similar to that of LiveJournal . In November 2006, Flickr created a "guest pass" system that allows private photos to be shared with non-Flickr members. This setting allows sets or all photos under a certain privacy category (friends or family) to be shared. Many members allow their photos to be viewed by anyone, forming a large collaborative database of categorized photos. By default, other members can leave comments about any image they have permission to view and, in many cases, can add to

2208-399: A web-based massively multiplayer online game . Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved. Butterfield later launched a similar online game, Glitch , which was shut down on November 14, 2012. Early versions of Flickr focused on a chat room called FlickrLive, with real-time photo exchange capabilities. The successive evolutions focused more on

2304-496: A website. Flickr albums may be organized into "collections", which can themselves be further organized into higher-order collections. Organizr is a Web application for organizing photos within a Flickr account that can be accessed through the Flickr interface. It allows users to modify tags, descriptions and set groupings, and to place photos on a world map (a feature provided in conjunction with Yahoo! Maps ). It uses Ajax to emulate

2400-535: Is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community , founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States . It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was previously a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. It has changed ownership several times and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018. As of June 10, 2015, Flickr had

2496-552: Is based on the Disney cartoon character of Mickey Mouse . It consists of 118 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. Released on 1 March 2021, Minnie Mouse (set number: 40457) is based on the Disney cartoon character of Minnie Mouse . It consists of 140 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. Released on 1 April 2022, Iron Man (set number: 40535)

2592-621: Is based on the fictional Marvel Comics superhero, Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise . It consists of 200 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. The initial original design of Iron Man Brick Sketches model created by Chris McVeigh which posted to Flickr in August 2013. In nine years later, the original design has been upgraded and became an official set. Released on 1 April 2022, Miles Morales (set number: 40536)

2688-561: Is based on the fictional Marvel Comics superhero, Miles Morales . It consists of 214 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. Flickr Early research and development: Merging the networks and creating the Internet: Commercialization, privatization, broader access leads to the modern Internet: Examples of Internet services: Flickr ( / ˈ f l ɪ k ər / FLI -kər ; pronunciation )

2784-464: Is getting as many details into that small 12 by 16 studs canvas as possible. This was always a really fun thing to do, and I would lose myself for hours trying to rearrange parts and trying to fit more details on that small canvas. Obviously, once I joined the company, this is not something that I could really pursue anymore." McVeigh said that a core aspect of the design is that most characters have shoulders and noted that "it's always been necessary with

2880-419: Is in charge of running the nightclub, while Mickey primarily serves as the host. In one episode of House of Mouse, "Clarabelle's Big Secret", Minnie reveals that she has gone to the movies with Mortimer Mouse, although it isn't a date. She appears in two children's shows on Disney Jr. : the full-length educational Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and the spin-off series of shorts Minnie's Bow-Toons , where she runs

2976-454: Is not disabled by the photo's uploader, these are then publicly viewable. Any Flickr user can post comments to a Flickr photo on its photopage, unless this has been disabled by the uploader, and users can "favorite" a photo. A user's favorites can be viewed in a justified or slideshow display. Users of Windows Photo Gallery , Apple's iPhoto (version 8), Adobe's Lightroom 3.2, Apple's Aperture (version 3.0), darktable , and digiKam have

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3072-471: Is under review as of early 2014. In March 2007, Flickr added new content filtering controls that let members specify by default what types of images they generally upload (photo, art/illustration, or screenshot ) and how "safe" (i.e., unlikely to offend others) their images are, as well as specify that information for specific images individually. Individual images are assigned to one of three categories: "safe", "moderate" and "restricted". Users can specify

3168-442: Is used for works that are still protected by copyright or neighbouring rights, but where the rightsholders choose to waive all those rights. Flickr became an immediate success and was seen as a successful example of " Web 2.0 ", and a year later was purchased by Yahoo! . Initially, the site was most popular with professional photographers and graphic designers as well as bloggers who used it as an image repository. In 2007, Flickr

3264-497: The National Museum of Denmark , Powerhouse Museum , George Eastman Museum , Library of Congress , Nationaal Archief , National Archives and Records Administration , National Library of Scotland , State Library of New South Wales , and Smithsonian Institution . In May 2009, White House official photographer Pete Souza began using Flickr as a conduit for releasing White House photos. The photos were initially posted with

3360-423: The 2004 direct-to-video film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers , Minnie plays the role of the princess of France , who continually daydreams about her true love, Mickey. She is also the only monarch getting in the way of the plans of Pete, who can't take over the kingdom if he can't get rid of her. For this particular film, Minnie is drawn with hair bangs, which do not appear in any later cartoons. In

3456-852: The 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 . Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have criticised Flickr for its heavy-handed implementation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA). Under OCILLA, a service provider such as Flickr is obliged to delete or disable access to content as soon as they receive an official notice of infringement, to maintain protection from liability. After having one of his own pictures taken down following an incorrect DMCA claim, British comedian Dave Gorman researched

3552-404: The Disney animated feature Pinocchio . During the second half of the 1930s, Minnie didn't appear as often in Mickey cartoons. This was mainly due to the growth in popularity of Mickey's new sidekicks, Goofy , Donald Duck and Pluto , whose appearances in Mickey cartoons had more or less replaced Minnie's role. Minnie's appearances in Mickey cartoons thus became less numerous, but she did have

3648-496: The Egg Robbers" (published September 22 – December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and her grandparents Marvel Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Her best-known relatives, however, remain her uncle Mortimer Mouse (Mortimer was almost the name of Mickey) and her twin nieces, Millie and Melody Mouse, though most often

3744-404: The Flickr group can monitor and set restrictions for the group, assign awards to members, and may curate and organize the photo content. Recent uploads to a group will sometimes appear on its members' homepages. Group photo pools may be displayed in the "Justified View" or as a slideshow. "Galleries" of photos from other photostreams may be curated by any signed-up Flickr user, provided the feature

3840-567: The Lego Brick Sketches theme. Released on 1 June 2020, Batman (set number: 40386) is based on the fictional DC Comics superhero , Batman . It consists of 115 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. Released on 1 June 2020, First Order Stormtrooper (set number: 40391) is based on the fictional soldier of Star Wars , First Order Stormtrooper . It consists of 151 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on

3936-478: The Pooh , Tinker Bell and Snow White have already received this distinction. Minnie was initially created to be the love interest of Mickey Mouse , concept art for Mickey showed a female mouse alongside him. Minnie was designed in the fashion of a flapper girl. Her main outfit consisted of a short flapper girl dress that often revealed her distinctive patched knickers . In the 1929 cartoon The Karnival Kid , it

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4032-460: The ability to either release their images under certain common usage licenses or label them as " all rights reserved ". The licensing options primarily include the Creative Commons 2.0 attribution-based and minor content-control licenses – although jurisdiction and version-specific licenses cannot be selected. As with " tags ", the site allows easy searching of only those images that fall under

4128-423: The ability to upload their photos directly to Flickr. They can also automatically update their status on other social networking services when they upload their images to Flickr. Flickr provides a desktop client for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to upload photos without using the web interface. Uploadr allows drag-and-drop batch uploading of photos, the setting of tags and descriptions for each batch, and

4224-488: The accidental deletion of a Flickr user's account, and public reporting of its protracted restoration. Flickr may delete accounts without giving any reason or warning to the account's owner. As a result of the SmugMug buyout, Flickr added the ability for users to download all of their account data, such as photo albums, contacts, and comments. The images a photographer uploads to Flickr go into their sequential "photostream",

4320-404: The basis of a Flickr account. All photostreams can be displayed as a justified view, a slide show , a "detail" view or a date stamped archive. Clicking on a photostream image opens it in the interactive "photopage" alongside data, comments and facilities for embedding images on external sites. Users may label their uploaded images with titles and descriptions, and images may be tagged , either by

4416-503: The company, as of August 2009 Flickr is hosted on 62 databases across 124 servers, with about 800,000 user accounts per pair of servers. Based on information compiled by highscalability.com, as of November 2007 the MySQL databases are hosted on servers that are Linux -based (from Red Hat ), with a software platform that includes Apache , PHP (with PEAR and Smarty ), shards , Memcached , Squid , Perl , ImageMagick and Java ;

4512-514: The criteria for that were yet to be announced. On June 13, 2008, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield announced his resignation on July 12, 2008, which followed that of his wife and co-founder Caterina Fake , who left the company on the same day. Butterfield wrote a humorous resignation letter to Brad Garlinghouse . On December 14, 2008, The Guardian reported that three employees had been laid off as Yahoo! continued to reduce its workforce and, on November 30, 2010, CNET reported Yahoo!

4608-539: The editing of privacy settings. Flickr has entered into partnerships with many third parties. Flickr had a partnership with the Picnik online photo-editing application that included a reduced-feature version of Picnik built into Flickr as a default photo editor. On April 5, 2012, Flickr replaced Picnik with Aviary as its default photo editor. In addition to using commercial mapping data, Flickr now uses OpenStreetMap mapping for various cities; this began with Beijing during

4704-415: The entire tribe running for the hills. The Mouse couple stands triumphant at the end. The short has been criticized for its unflattering depiction of Native Americans as rather bestial predators. The finale has been edited out in recent viewings for depicting the "braves" submitting to cowardice. In several shorts, comics and TV shows, Minnie owns a black and white kitten named Figaro , who had originated in

4800-485: The fantasy comic series Wizards of Mickey , Minnie is the sorceress princess of the kingdom of Dolmen whose people have been turned to stone, leading her to seek a magical Crystal to restore them. In her quest, she partners with her friends Daisy and Clarabelle as team Diamond Moon and eventually meets up with Mickey, the Supreme Sorcerer of Dolmen, and his group. Minnie Mouse was first voiced by Walt Disney , who

4896-473: The first time addresses an audience to explain that he has "got a sweetie" who is "neither fat nor skinny" and proudly proclaims that "she's my little Minnie Mouse". Mickey then proceeds to explain his reaction to Minnie's call. The song firmly establishes Mickey and Minnie as a couple and expresses the importance Minnie holds for her male partner. Her final appearance for the year was in Wild Waves , carried by

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4992-510: The former obliges in saving the Damsel in Distress from the villain . All three characters acted as strangers first being introduced to each other. But it was their third cartoon that established the definitive early look and personality of both Mickey and Minnie, as well as Pete. Steamboat Willie was the third short of the series to be produced, but was released first, on November 18, 1928. Pete

5088-506: The functionality of Flickr. In 2006, Flickr was the second most extended site on userscripts.org. Organizr and most of Flickr's other text-editing and tagging interfaces use Ajax , with which most modern browsers are compliant. Images can be posted to the user's photostream via email attachments, which enables direct uploads from many smartphones and applications. Flickr uses the Geo microformat on over three million geotagged images. According to

5184-413: The invitation but not his request for a kiss in mid-flight. Mickey eventually forces Minnie into a kiss, but this only results in her parachuting out of the plane. This first film depicted Minnie as somewhat resistant to the demanding affection of her potential boyfriend and capable of escaping his grasp. Their debut, however, featured the couple already familiar to each other. The next film featuring them

5280-496: The issue and concluded that if the Flickr user was not based in the United States or they were, but the person filing the notice of infringement was not, Flickr deleted the disputed content immediately. Even if the user could successfully demonstrate that the content did not infringe upon any copyright, Flickr did not, according to Gorman, replace the deleted content. He argued that this was contrary to its obligations in responding to

5376-580: The king and her husband. She, at the suggestion of a letter left by the missing King, sends Donald Duck and Goofy on their mission to find Mickey and the Keyblade Master, Sora . During Kingdom Hearts II , when Pete's tampering of the past causes the Heartless to appear in Disney Castle, Minnie is forced to fall back to the library up until Sora and company arrive. While Donald and Goofy head out to get

5472-519: The last. In fact, this was the case with her next appearance in The Cactus Kid (May 10, 1930). As the title implies, the short was intended as a Western movie parody, but it is considered to be more or less a remake of The Gallopin' Gaucho set in Mexico instead of Argentina . Minnie was again cast as the local tavern dancer who is abducted by Peg-Leg Pedro ( Black Pete in his first appearance with

5568-527: The launch of Mickey and the Roadster Racers , Minnie's Happy Helpers adventures appear in the second half of every new episode. Minnie has had several appearances as a princess throughout the ages, including the Mickey Mouse short films Ye Olden Days (1933) and Brave Little Tailor (1938). Minnie appears in the Kingdom Hearts game series as the queen of Disney Castle, with Mickey serving as

5664-412: The list of tags associated with an image. The core functionality of the site relies on standard HTML and HTTP features, allowing for wide compatibility among platforms and browsers ; Flickr's functionality includes RSS and Atom feeds and an API that enables independent programmers to expand its services. This includes a large number of third-party Greasemonkey scripts that enhance and extend

5760-501: The look, feel and quick functionality of desktop-based photo-management applications, such as Google's Picasa and F-Spot . Users can select and apply changes to multiple photos at a time, as an alternative to the standard Flickr interface for editing. Flickr provides both private and public image storage. A user uploading an image can set privacy controls that determine who can view the image. A photo can be flagged as either public or private. Private images are visible by default only to

5856-625: The other residents to safety, Sora serves as the Queen's bodyguard to get her to the Cornerstone of Light. During this time, Minnie shows powers as a sorceress of white magic, casting a holy light on the Heartless that attack. In the prequel Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep , she oversees the annually held Dream Festival in Disney Town, where Pete causes mischief up until she banishes him to another dimension as

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5952-698: The phone and know she isn't afraid. Her tunes are interrupted by her scream and Mickey rushes to her house to save her. Meanwhile, Beppo has wrapped up Minnie in rope and holds her hostage. Mickey confronts the gorilla and once again rescues the damsel in distress. In The Picnic (1930), Minnie introduces her boyfriend to her new pet dog, Rover. This is actually Pluto making his first appearance as an individual character. Two unnamed bloodhound guard dogs strikingly similar to him had previously appeared in The Chain Gang (August 18, 1930) which featured Mickey incarcerated in prison without Minnie at his side. Otherwise,

6048-503: The role, which she performed up until her death in 2019 (her husband, Wayne Allwine , voiced Mickey from 1977 up until his death in 2009), Taylor's voice is used in various TV series and theme parks via archival and posthumous dialogue. Kaitlyn Robrock officially took over as the new voice of Minnie, beginning with two Disney Jr. stop-motion Mickey Mouse shorts, Mickey Mouse and the Magical Snowy Holiday and Mickey Mouse and

6144-610: The run-up to the 2008 Olympic games. As of October 2008 , this is used for Baghdad, Beijing, Kabul, Sydney and Tokyo. OpenStreetMap data is collected by volunteers and is available under the Open Database License . Flickr offers printing of various forms of merchandise, including business cards, photo books, stationery, personalized credit cards and large-size prints from companies such as Moo , Blurb , Tiny Prints , Capital One , Imagekind , and QOOP . The Flickr partnership with Getty Images to sell stock photos from users

6240-517: The same criteria when searching for images. There are some restrictions on searches for certain types of users: non-members must always use SafeSearch, which omits images noted as potentially offensive, while members whose Yahoo! accounts indicate that they are underage may use SafeSearch or moderate SafeSearch, but cannot turn SafeSearch off completely. The system achieves a fairly good separation of family-friendly photos and adult content; generic image searches normally produce no pornographic results, with

6336-485: The servers of former owner Yahoo to Amazon Web Services (AWS), in a planned 12-hour transition to occur on May 22, 2019. In May 2023, Flickr announced the development of the Print Shop feature that was being tested with a list of approved sellers. The Print shop feature allows photographers to sell prints via a storefront, and allows purchases from consumers. The feature was to allow only approved members access to it, but

6432-750: The service was widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media . Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr on March 20, 2005. The acquisition reportedly cost between $ 22 million and $ 25 million. During the week of June 26, 2005, to July 2, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States, and all resulting data became subject to United States federal law . On May 3, 2007, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Photos would close down on September 20, 2007, after which all photos would be deleted; users were encouraged to migrate to Flickr. On January 31, 2007, Flickr announced that, to continue using

6528-483: The service, "Old Skool" members (those who had joined before the Yahoo! acquisition) would be required to associate their account with a Yahoo! identity by March 15, 2007. That move was criticized by some users. Flickr upgraded its services from " beta " to " gamma " status on May 16, 2006, the changes attracted positive attention from Lifehacker . On December 13, 2006, upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100 MB

6624-487: The short features a typical picnic excursion harassed by forest animals and brought to a premature end by a sudden rain. The final appearance of Minnie during the year was Pioneer Days (November 20, 1930). The short featured Minnie and her mate as pioneer settlers heading to the American Old West driving a covered wagon in a wagon train . They are unsurprisingly attacked by Native Americans on their way, this

6720-484: The silent versions of the cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho , and the sound cartoon Steamboat Willie . Newer versions of Minnie Mouse will remain copyright protected. In Mickey Mouse Works , she appeared in her own segments. Occasionally, she starred in Maestro Minnie shorts, in which she conducts an orchestra of living instruments that she usually has to tame. In House of Mouse , Minnie

6816-533: The site. Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact. For mobile users, Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS , Android , and an optimized mobile site. Flickr was launched on February 10, 2004, by Ludicorp , a Vancouver -based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake . The service emerged from tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending ,

6912-494: The sketch on a wall to support the portraits. Each set was designed by Lego model designer Chris McVeigh, who was hired by the Lego Group after posting numerous brick sketches to Flickr . McVeigh was inspired to create brick sketches by the marker sketches of pop culture characters produced by his artist friends. He designs brick sketches using  Lego Digital Designer , a free consumer-level CAD program. He restricts himself to

7008-692: The system administration tools include Ganglia , SystemImager , Subcon and CVSup . Signed-in Flickr users can "Follow" the Photostreams of other Flickr photographers. Reciprocating this process is optional. A user's homepage contains a stream of their Contacts' photos at 2/3 screen size. Groups are another major means of interaction with fellow members of Flickr around common photography interests. A Flickr Group can be started by any Flickr user, who becomes its administrator and can appoint moderators. Groups may either be open access or invitation-only, and most have an associated pool of photos. The administrator of

7104-575: The three-part scale used. Many Flickr users, particularly in Germany, protested against the new restrictions, claiming unwanted censorship from Flickr and Yahoo. Flickr management, unwilling to go into legal details, implied that the reason for the stringent filtering was some particularly strict age-verification laws in Germany. The issue received attention in the German national media, especially in online publications. Initial reports indicated that Flickr's action

7200-419: The top 500 most popular websites globally. On June 12, 2007, in the wake of the rollout of localized language versions of the site, Flickr implemented a user-side rating system for filtering out potentially controversial photos. Simultaneously, users with accounts registered with Yahoo! subsidiaries in Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea were prevented from viewing photos rated "moderate" or "restricted" on

7296-444: The traditional folder-based method of organizing files, as one photo can belong to one album, many albums, or none at all. Flickr provides code to embed albums into blogs, websites and forums. Flickr albums represent a form of categorical metadata rather than a physical hierarchy. Geotagging can be applied to photos in albums, and any albums with geotagging can be related to a map using imapflickr. The resulting map can be embedded in

7392-523: The tune of " There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight ". The next entry in the series is considered curious: The Gorilla Mystery (October 1, 1930). The short starts with Beppo the Gorilla escaping from a zoo. Mickey learns of it and terribly panics. He phones Minnie to warn her about the dangerous gorilla wandering about. Minnie is unconcerned and plays tunes on her piano for Mickey to hear over

7488-514: The uploader or by other users, if the uploader permits it. These text components enable computer searching of Flickr. Flickr was an early website to implement tag clouds , which were used until 2013, providing access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. Tagging was further revised in the photopage redesign of March 2014. Flickr has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy . Users can organize their Flickr photos into "albums" (formerly "sets") which are more flexible than

7584-416: The uploader, but they can also be marked as viewable by friends or family. Privacy settings also can be decided by adding photographs from a user's photostream to a "group pool". If a group is private all the members of that group can see the photo. If a group is public the photo becomes public as well. Flickr also provides a "contact list" which can be used to control image access for a specific set of users in

7680-496: The uploading and filing back-end for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr's back-end systems evolved away from Game Neverending ' s codebase. Key features of Flickr not initially present are tags , marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent was granted. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs and an online community , in 2004,

7776-439: The user upgraded and paid for a Pro account. Flickr has always offered two types of accounts: free and paid. Until January 7, 2019, free accounts had up to 1 TB of storage. On January 8, 2019, the account offerings changed. The free option is limited to 1,000 photos or videos stored, with videos limited to three minutes. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit could no longer upload new photos to Flickr. On February 5, 2019,

7872-436: The visibility of adult content restricted to users and dedicated Flickr communities who have opted into viewing it. Flickr has used this filtering system to change the level of accessibility to "unsafe" content for entire nations, including South Korea , Hong Kong and Germany. In summer 2007, German users staged a "revolt" over being assigned the user rights of a minor . See § Censorship below. Flickr offers users

7968-567: Was The Gallopin' Gaucho . The film was the second of their series to be produced, but the third to be released and was released on December 30, 1928. We find Minnie employed at the Cantina Argentina , a bar and restaurant established in the Pampas of Argentina . She performs the Tango for Mickey the gaucho and Black Pete the outlaw. Both flirt with her, but the latter intends to abduct her while

8064-475: Was a sensible, if unattractive, precaution against prosecution, although later coverage implied that Flickr's action may have been unnecessarily strict. On June 20, 2007, Flickr reacted by granting German users access to "moderate" (but not "restricted") images, and hinted at a future solution for Germany, involving advanced age-verification procedures. Since June 1, 2009, Flickr has been blocked in China in advance of

8160-479: Was a stock plot of Western movies at the time. While their fellows are either subjected to scalping or running for their lives, Minnie is captured by the attackers. Mickey attempts to rescue her, only to be captured himself. In a reversal of their usual roles, Minnie escapes her captors and rescues her mate. They then dress as soldiers of the United States Army . Their mere appearance proves sufficient to have

8256-477: Was also revealed that she wears black stockings which were also fashionable among flapper girls. Her shoes are probably her most distinctive article of clothing. For comedic effect, she wears oversized high heeled pumps that are too big for her feet. Her heels often slip out of her shoes and she even loses her shoes completely in The Gallopin' Gaucho . When she walked or danced, the clip clop of her large pumps

8352-453: Was also the original voice of Mickey Mouse . Marjorie Ralston, a Disney inker who joined the animation team as Disney's thirteenth employee, voiced her in the 1929 short Wild Waves , but didn't further pursue the role out of shyness. Then, from 1930 up until 1941, Minnie was voiced by Marcellite Garner . Then, from 1941 to 1942 and on the radio program, The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air , she

8448-428: Was arguably the first time Minnie was upstaged by a female co-star. In The Fire Fighters (June 20, 1930), Minnie is trapped in a hotel during a fire. She spends the duration of the short in mortal peril but is rescued by firefighters under Chief Mickey Mouse. Horace Horsecollar is among the firefighters. An unnamed cow in the background is possibly Clarabelle making a cameo. The music of the short was, appropriately,

8544-557: Was featured as the Captain of the steamboat , Mickey as a crew of one and Minnie as their single passenger. The two anthropomorphic mice first star in a sound film and spend most of its duration playing music to the tune of " Turkey in the Straw ". Her next appearance was arguably more significant. Mickey's Follies (August 28, 1929), featured the first performance of the song " Minnie's Yoo-Hoo ". "The guy they call little Mickey Mouse " for

8640-529: Was lifted. In 2009, Flickr announced a partnership with Getty Images in which selected users could submit photographs for stock photography usage and receive payment. On June 16, 2010, this was changed so that users could label images as suitable for stock use themselves. On May 20, 2013, Flickr launched the first stage of a major site redesign, introducing a "Justified View" close-spaced photo layout browsed via "infinite scrolling" and adding new features, including one terabyte of free storage for all users,

8736-592: Was on the verge of a major layoff, affecting 10% to 20% of its workforce. Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs. On June 13, 2017, Verizon Communications acquired Yahoo!, including Flickr. Verizon reorganized Yahoo!, along with AOL, into a new umbrella company, Oath, which was renamed as Verizon Media on January 8, 2019. On April 20, 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Verizon's Oath and put an end to Flickr 1 TB storage plan for free users. Those users had until February 5, 2019, to convert to "Pro" accounts or their photo streams would be reduced to

8832-525: Was part of the DNA of Brick Sketches". Lego Brick Sketches was launched in June 2020. As part of the marketing campaign, the Lego Group released four construction sets. Two sets were released in 2021 and based on Disney cartoon characters. Another two sets will be released in 2022 and based on the fictional Marvel Comics superheroes. According to Bricklink , the Lego Group released a total of eight Lego sets as part of

8928-459: Was retired on 31 December 2021. Released on 1 June 2020, BB-8 (set number: 40431) is based on the fictional droid of Star Wars, BB-8 . It consists of 171 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. In August 2021, The Lego Group announced the BB-8 (set number: 40431) was retired on 31 December 2021. Released on 1 March 2021, Mickey Mouse (set number: 40456)

9024-452: Was the 19th most popular website on the Internet according to its Alexa Rank . However, since then, its popularity has declined relative to social media platforms with photo sharing capabilities (such as Facebook and Instagram ), as well as cloud file storage services (such as Dropbox ). By 2021, Flickr's Alexa Rank had declined significantly, yet indicated that the website was still among

9120-450: Was usually heard clearly and often went with the rhythm of the music that was played in the background. Along with Mickey, she was redesigned in 1940. Her hat was replaced with a large bow and bows were added to her shoes as well. Her eyes were also given more detail. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, her look and personality became more conservative . Minnie almost always wears red or pink, but in her early appearances, she could be seen wearing

9216-549: Was voiced by Thelma Boardman . Boardman also voiced her in the short Mickey's Birthday Party in 1942. Shirley Reed voiced Minnie in Two-Gun Mickey expect the end. Following this, from 1944 to 1952, Ruth Clifford provided the character's voice. Janet Waldo voiced Minnie in the 1974 Disneyland record album, An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players . Minnie would go without any spoken dialogue up until 1986, when Russi Taylor inherited

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