After languishing for years as a neglected acquisition, Flickr has finally been given the jumpstart it so desperately needed and deserved. As of right now, not only to you get a free terabyte of storage and extremely high-res photo uploads, you get it in pretty stellar package. Here's what you're dealing with. Read More >>
It's a Yahoo news bonanza today. Just after the company this morning announced its $1.1 billion dollar acquisition of Tumblr, it showed off a completely redesigned version of Flickr. Read More >>
In the wake of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it's perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught—and gutted—another big fish. Read More >>
Featured comment by Silverbull999:
"Yeah great piece... Enjoyed reading very much.
Imo facehook can do one... Getting a dslr recently made me get Flickr and 500px accounts.... Nothin..." More »
It might be the changing of the seasons and the yearning for warmer days and longer nights but why is it that we always end up talking about the weather? For most of us, it dictates a lot of our day. Aren't you constantly checking the weather on your phone or is it just me? Read More >>
A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea's official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. Read More >>
Everpix is an online photo storage system that's trying very hard to be the Flickr that everybody wants. Its latest crack is at this is an "Explore" feature, which uses image analysis to sort all of the photos in your collection into content categories like, "animals", "city", and "nature". It works, and it'll only get smarter over time. Read More >>
No one who's actually found how to change default search provider in Internet Explorer actually uses Yahoo search, but now the Google competitor is trying to win our hearts back...by bunging Flickr Creative Commons photos into its image search. I'm sorry Yahoo, but I don't think that's going to do it for me. Chocolates and flowers traditionally work better for wooing people back [Yahoo] Read More >>
Yahoo must be making at least a small effort to resurrect Flickr. Today it finally, finally gave birth to an updated Flickr iPhone app. If only it weren't three years overdue. Read More >>
Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer is in the process of trying to rescue the ailing company, which means lots of hires and fires and business blah blah nobody cares about. But buried within the recent news from the company is a little tidbit that'll be interesting to anyone who'd like to see Flickr get a kick in the pants. Read More >>
Featured comment by austint:
"No.
The founders should have sold to Google, not Yahoo, when they decided to sell out. Even then Yahoo were turd-like.
But Yahoo belatedly add..." More »
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. Read More >>
Flickr has been bleeding users like a hemophiliac since around the time Google+ launched and Yahoo's finally doing something about it. Flickr senior product lead Markus Spiering has hinted that big changes are in store for the photo-sharing site come month's end. Read More >>
Featured comment by flipper202:
"Thank god. I was tempted to switch to Picasa but I've been on flickr so long.. I have been pretty loathe to switch.
Plus I don't like facebook's c..." More »
With content pouring in from cameras and smartphones all around the world, it's not surprising that Flickr gains over a million new photos every single day. It's a fact you probably wouldn't give much thought to, until you see photographer Erik Kessels' latest exhibit where he printed and filled a gallery with a day's worth of Flickr uploads. Read More >>
Featured comment by Denius:
"Trust me, get a Kodak. You pay a bit more for the actual printer, and pay loads less for the ink. The ink is so much cheaper. I had an Epson, which re..." More »