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Flickr has big plans this year, at least that's what it's saying in its "New Year's Cleaning" blog post. Big and wonderful new features are coming this year, but it's got to get rid of some of the older and rarely used ones first, it says.Flickr has compiled a list of features that are getting the... |
14 January 2012
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Facebook Photos is a giant, it's the largest photo sharing and management app on the web, dwarfing dedicated sites like Flickr, Picasa or PhotoBucket, not to mention any of the younger competitors.
It's not the best, by any means, but it is the biggest for a couple of good reasons; one, it's built int... |
28 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Yahoo! has rolled out an update to their Flickr application for iOS users improving several existing features, while adding new ones, such as the photo picker.The popular photo sharing service is yet to be incarnated as an iPad app, but Yahoo! continues to push out incremental updates for the existing iPhone version.... |
22 December 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Flickr has unveiled its regular Year in Photos gallery. In 2011, 18 hand-picked pics, all posted by Flickr users, highlight the big events of the year around the world and in the US.
It starts with the Arab revolutions of the spring and goes through natural disasters like the Japan earthquake and tsunami or a tornad... |
20 December 2011
10:51 GMT |
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People take a lot of photos each day and upload many of them to photo sharing sites or social networks like Facebook. So many photos are uploaded that the number loses significance to most people, especially since all of this happens online where everything is harder to quantify.
A new art installation at the Foam a... |
14 November 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Flickr is home to some pretty talented photographers and some very good photos. While Flickr's goal has always been to enable people to share their photographs with friends and the world, but many artists have been also using it to get recognition.And, in the past few years, to get paid too, thanks to a partners... |
19 October 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Flickr has announced that it now houses more than 200 million photos published under a Creative Commons license, which enables viewers to freely distribute, copy and even modify or use commercially in some cases, the images. This makes Flickr the largest source for Creative Commons (CC) licensed photography on the w... |
6 October 2011
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The official Flickr application available for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system has just been upgraded with support for the latest flavor of the platform, namely Mango.
In addition to Mango support, the mobile software also comes with integration with the Camera app in the mob... |
3 October 2011
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It looks like the mysterious LG myTouch smartphone that is allegedly slated for a T-Mobile USA in the near future, has just been displayed on the carrier's website.This is clearly a mistake, but it confirms the leaked pictures discovered by the folks over at AndroidGuys while digging through Flickr, about two we... |
30 September 2011
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Flickr is finally waking up after years of slumber and is coming up with new, interesting features and tools once again. It's now debuting a very cool web app dubbed Photo Session which enables several users to browse through a set of photos, chat and even draw on top of them all in real-time and in sync. The i... |
29 September 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Owners of handsets running under Google's Android operating system now have the option to download and install the official Flickr application on their devices. The new software was just made available through the Android Market for Android 2.1 and newer devices, with features that include the ability to share... |
29 September 2011
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Flickr has debuted a really interesting privacy feature for geotagged photos. Yes, it's hard to be believe that anything having to do with both geotagging and privacy can be interesting, but Flickr has done it. It calls it geofencing and the feature, essentially, sets different location privacy settings for phot... |
30 August 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Flickr is expanding the use of its 'subscribe' API, which enables developers to get feeds with Flickr photos based on criteria they choose, by making it real-time and adding a much wider set of photos developers can pull.
"Initially you could only subscribe to photos from your contacts and favorites from... |
22 August 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Flickr has announced an impressive milestone, just as competitor (to a degree) Instagram revealed some of its latest numbers. There are now six billion images hosted on Flickr, the six billionth being added earlier this week.
That's a lot of photos, though Flickr has been at it for quite a few years now. In a... |
5 August 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Keeple has updated its popular iPad app "Flickr Studio" to introduce a major update with features for vacationing users, including an updated upload section, the ability to create and prepare an upload queue, and more.Dutch Developer Robin van Mourik explains that "[by] combining Flickr Studio app with Apple's c... |
19 July 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Flickr has updated some of its policies regarding the photos stored on the site and provided some details on existing policies. The big change is that Flickr will now keep all photos from a deleted account for 90 days, to make sure that they're still recoverable if you change of mind. The change comes after plen... |
27 May 2011
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Flickr has gradually become the favorite service used to share one's images and to show off photography skills to visitors from all over the world. This task has just gotten easier since several new sharing options have been recently introduced.Due to the new changes, users will simply need to upload their file... |
31 March 2011
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A new mobile application is now available for download for users of a Windows Phone 7 device, coming from Flickr, and offering fast access to the online destination.The new mobile application was announced back in January, and arrives along with a new software for Windows 7 computers, so that those who own tablet PC... |
2 March 2011
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Google has always been about the web, web apps are just better than native ones, it argues. Recently it's been heavily focused on the mobile front as well, especially since Android has taken off. Yet even the might Google seems to be playing catch-up at times. Thankfully, it's getting better, for example th... |
8 February 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Flickr has managed to restore the account of Mirco Wilhelm which had been mistakenly deleted and was deemed unrecoverable. It seems that there was something that Flickr and Yahoo could do after all and they managed to recover all of the lost images, comments and so on. Flickr says that the account has been fully rest... |
3 February 2011
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There are all sorts of stories about people having their accounts disabled or content removed on plenty of sites for no reason or by mistake. Many times these mistakes can be rectified. One German photographer, though, woke up to find his five-year-old Flickr account deleted and all of his 4,000 photos gone with no w... |
2 February 2011
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Yahoo is making a lot of improvements to the newly launched Yahoo Mail Beta. The redesigned product brings a lot of interesting changes and additions, along with a much more eye-pleasing look, and Yahoo is now showcasing one of the cool new features, slideshows for Picasa or Flickr albums shared in an email. "With Ya... |
31 January 2011
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Not much of a surprise considering Yahoo's recent announcement that it will now enable users to sign up with a Google or Facebook account, but Flickr is now rolling out support for Facebook account registrations. Flickr was actually the first Yahoo product to support registrations with third-party accounts when ... |
21 January 2011
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Just one day after Flickr announced its Facebook integration, the site is announcing that Google users will be able to register and log in using their existing accounts. This is done via the wonders of OpenID and will be extended to other OpenID providers beyond Google."Flickr is rolling out a new feature to make it ... |
29 October 2010
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Flickr, at heart a social photo sharing service, is rolling out a couple of features that should make finding friends, or at least people you know, on Flickr easier. A People You May Know is being introduced which, as the name implies, suggests users you may have a connection to. Also new is the possibility to import... |
28 October 2010
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We’ve all got an image collection. Some we keep for sharing on Facebook, some are there for when we’re looking for inspiration, while many get lost in the clutter inside our folders. Making sense of our photo collection can be time consuming and irritating. That’s why photo organizing applications s... |
5 October 2010
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Facebook is rolling out a major update to the photos section. What started off as an after-thought and has been for many years a second-tier interest at the company, despite its huge popularity, is now finally a real threat to photo sharing services out there. With just a couple of changes, Facebook photos now square... |
1 October 2010
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Android 2.2 mobile phone users fond of sharing various moment in their lives with friends and family via social networking sites have now a new option available for them when it comes to Flickr. To be more precise, we're referring here to the capability to upload photos to Flickr straight from the mobile browse... |
25 September 2010
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Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing sites out there, and it has been for years, but it's far from being the largest. That title goes to Facebook, but Flickr has some milestone of its own to brag about, apparently the site has just got its 5 billionth photo. According to the Media Culpa blog, the site... |
18 September 2010
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NASA and the Internet Archive have partnered with Flickr to make a series of historical images from the space agency available in the Yahoo-owned site. Three sets of images are now available in The Commons section of the site, reserved for images with un-restrictive copyright licenses."NASA joins the Commons on Flick... |
31 August 2010
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Flickr is now rolling out its revamped photo page to everyone after several weeks of testing. The new page is a major overhaul and packed full of new or improved features. Some of the most noticeable are the larger photos and better navigation. The new page will now be available to all Flickr users. “After a fe... |
4 August 2010
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It’s hard to think of a more conservative institution than the British Monarchy. But, while the monarchy is as set in its ways as ever, it is slowly moving along with the times and establishing an online presence. It has made some shy moves so far and is continuing now with the launch of The British Monarchy Fl... |
26 July 2010
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Flickr remains one of the most popular photo-sharing sites in the world. While Facebook’s photo section may dwarf it in terms of actual content and Picasa may be better suited to house your wedding album photos, for amateur and professional photographers alike, there’s no better place, certainly not one w... |
24 June 2010
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Flickr is the most popular photo-sharing service in the world, if you don’t count Facebook as one, and is probably one of the most misspelled domains on earth as well. Its trend-setting name, Flickr, may be pronounced ‘flicker,’ but its domain name is flickr.com. In fact, Yahoo, which owns Flickr, ... |
15 June 2010
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Yahoo has been getting very friendly with Facebook lately. It has just rolled out a deeper integration with the social network on Yahoo Mail and plenty of its other properties. And now Flickr, owned by Yahoo, is getting some Facebook love as well. The photo-sharing site now enables users to post their photos on Faceb... |
10 June 2010
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Another week another acquisition, that seems to be the Google mantra. To kick things off to a good start this week, Google has announced it has purchased Picnik, an online photo editor that integrates with several photo-sharing services including Picasa and Flickr. No financial details have been released. There are n... |
2 March 2010
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Google Street View is great tool, which despite all the criticism and privacy concerns has plenty to offer users. But it's greatest asset is also its major drawback, the amount of photos Google has taken for the tool makes it very hard to expect any sort of 'artistic merit' to them. This is where user... |
27 February 2010
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One of the great features in Google Street View has been the possibility to view user photos of the current location. Street View photos are practical and a great alternative to, well, nothing at all, but their quality generally leaves to be desired. With the user photos feature, you can get much better pics of the ... |
9 February 2010
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Users of a Nokia mobile phone have now yet another interesting application to enjoy on their device, the latest one to come out from Nokia Beta Labs' door, namely the Nokia Image Space. According to the developing team, the new software solution is mainly aimed at delivering a new approach to viewing your photo... |
23 December 2009
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Flickr and Getty Images have announced an extension of their partnership, which allows Flickr users to be featured in Getty's Flickr Collection and potentially get payed in the process. Until now, Getty has decided which users would get in and, so far, it has amassed over 60,000 photos in the collection. Now, th... |
6 November 2009
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Yahoo isn't exactly thriving these days but, just because it doesn't get as much attention as Facebook or Twitter or even Google for that matter, it doesn't mean that it's going anywhere. In fact, Yahoo is still one of the biggest online companies and its services are used by a large percentage of... |
29 October 2009
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Facebook is at heart a social network but the services and products that have developed around it can be impressive on their own. For example the social network can be considered the world's largest photo hosting site and there are over 20 billion photos on Facebook at the moment. Now Flickr is looking to steal ... |
22 October 2009
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It seems that every autumn, Flickr continues to pass over yet another landmark in image hosting. While in November 2007, it reached the 2 billion photo mark and in the month of November 2008 it reached the next milestone, 3 billion, the company got ahead of itself with one month and reached the 4 billion mark a few d... |
14 October 2009
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Yahoo's campaign to focus its branding and strengthen the relations between its core services may be already backfiring. Popular photo sharing site Flickr has been owned by Yahoo for more than four years now but for the most part it managed to keep as separate as possible. Judging from the reaction most Flickr u... |
25 September 2009
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Researchers at the University of Washington have recently developed a new series of algorithms that allows them to digitize the entire city of Rome in less than a day. Using a collection of hundreds of thousands of tourist photos, taken within the limits of the city, the new software can easily stitch them together, ... |
16 September 2009
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Flickr has unveiled a new feature that should have been a long time going. Called Flicker Galleries, the feature allows users to create a group of up to 18 public photos or videos from any other one on the site. This is a great way of showing off the works one particularly likes, grouped around a common theme, and so... |
15 September 2009
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Originally created by former game designers Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr is the world’s most popular online photo-sharing network. The service is now available to any owner of an iPhone or iPod touch through a free application that has just been granted a place in the App Store’s photogra... |
8 September 2009
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In the light of the whole Obama – Joker fiasco, Flickr has come out as the bad guy and is now trying to at least limit the damages by changing its policy when handling copyright takedown claims. A photoshopped image of the US President Barack Obama, which depicted him as the Dark Knight's version of the po... |
3 September 2009
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Photographer Thomas Hawk and PDN Pulse reveal that Flickr might have deleted the photo due to a loophole in its copyright policy, but Mr. Hawk makes a strong case when accusing Flickr of being politically incorrect when it comes to favoring the recent United States president.The whole affair started when a Chicago na... |
28 August 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Flickr is one of the best and biggest photo hosting and sharing sites out there but, while its die-hard users love it, there are some areas where it could do better, most notably its search, which leaves much to be desired. Thankfully the developers have heard the complaints and Flickr now sports a brand-new and much... |
5 August 2009
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