Flickr, the popular photo sharing website owned by Yahoo!, is a great example of a brand that empowers its customers as co-authors. Both amateur and professional photographers celebrate and utilize the site. The huge variety of photos found on Flickr is emblematic of the limitless creativity of the huge community of Internet users all over the world.

Yesterday, Flickr posted a few remarkable new stats:

- At peak times Flickr serves over 12,000 photos a second

- Yesterday, Flickr set a new upload record: 2,070,075 photos in 24 hours

- There are over 8.5 million registered members

- Those members have created over 10 million unique tags to help organize their photos

The photos to the left are Flickr photos taken by Pompei A.D. employees: Randhir Singh, Brittany Myers, Scott Faucheux, Mike Arauz, and Colin Brice.