News about <![CDATA[Flickr]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[The Former Flickr Employee Guide To Tumblr Yahoo Survival]]> Editor's note: Kakul Srivastava is CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 - 2009 and helped the product grow from 37,000 users to over 60 million. Simon Batistoni is VP of Platform and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. He joined Flickr in 2006 as the engineering lead for internationalization. ]]> <![CDATA[Integrated Vimeo, Flickr sharing could follow Twitter, Facebook to iOS]]>
    


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]]> <![CDATA[Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte Of Storage Space Per User, Officially Beating Everyone]]> Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in addition to its full resolution photo storage service. While the average user will probably not touch the outer limits of this storage space in a lifetime, this alone is probably enough to draw dedicated photographers to the service and, more important, bring lapsed users back to the Yahoo fold. This move is important. Given the odd nature of most photo sharing services, you are either limited to a few dozen gigabytes or, in the case of Instagram and other mobile services, an unstated upper limit that is not part of the marketing collateral. While I don’t doubt that Google or Facebook could make the terabyte claim in the near future, being first to market with this particular feature is an important milestone. This move is quite clearly a play by Yahoo to make its wares relevant. The long-beleaguered Flickr has at once enthralled and frustrated pro users with claims of abandonment by the web giant. As Marissa Mayer noted in her presentation, this is about “bringing lifetimes of beauty into Flickr.” It’s also about convincing casual photographers to trust Flickr as a universal shoebox for their old snaps – a lucrative and surprisingly important thing to be.]]> <![CDATA[Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office]]>
    


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]]> <![CDATA[Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage]]> The new Flickr is live. Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and social network acquired by Yahoo in March of 2005 for $35 million. Today, Flickr gets a huge revamp including a totally new look and feel, focused on three different things. First, there are no more bits of text or blue links, but rather a grid layout of huge pictures in full resolution. ]]> <![CDATA[To Succeed With Tumblr, Yahoo Has to Reverse a History of Questionable Acquisitions]]> With the blessing of its board on Sunday, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) acquired Tumblr, the trendy social network most popular among teens, at a favorable valuation of $1.1 billion.

This means Marissa Meyer and company shelled out about a quarter of the company's cash on the chance that they can monetize the social network

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]]> <![CDATA[Built to Last: 22 Products That Never Need Replacing]]> DailyFinance.com: jnb_photos, Flickr By Mandi Woodruff In an age when the Next Big iGadget is always around the corner and people go through cell phones like pairs of socks, it's nice to know there are some products that can never be replaced. In a popular Reddit ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Aviary’s Platform Has Been Used To Edit Over 3B Photos, And That Doesn’t Even Include Twitter]]> While developers scrambled to cash in on the photo-sharing gold rush while Instagram rose to prominence and then got sold to Facebook, Aviary took a different approach. Rather than build a consumer-facing app, the company decided to build a platform that allows other networks to include its photo-editing suite. It was a brilliant play and has paid off, as Aviary has announced that its platform has edited over 3 billion photos. Editing those photos are 35 million active users from 3,500 partners using the Aviary SDK. The impressive part of this milestone is that it doesn’t even include all of the photos edited with Twitter’s integration, which went into effect last December. One could assume that Twitter didn’t want its numbers leaking out with the rest. A little over a month ago, Photobucket went all in and started using Aviary’s platform, as well. Add Flickr, and all of a sudden you’re getting a picture of just what type of damage Aviary can do in the space. Recently appointed CEO Tobias Peggs had this to say about Aviary’s ridiculous growth curve: There’s no doubt that those numbers have surpassed our wildest expectations. In our first year, users edited 1 billion photos. In the past 6 months, they’ve edited 2 billion more. Our active monthly user count is now over 35 million people strong, and they have collectively spent 3,804 years editing photos with Aviary. This is how the past few months have looked: To kick up more dust for SDK adoption, Aviary will be holding a Photo Hack Day on April 6th at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus. Details on that aren’t available yet, but when you’re a developer looking to focus on building an app instead of having to focus on photo-editing tools such as filters, cropping and auto-brightness, those development cycles can speed up and apps will get shipped faster. I’ve followed Aviary’s progress over the past 18 months and can’t help but wonder how Adobe feels, as its Photoshop product could have easily been packaged up and offered in an SDK, thus earning it the spot that Aviary has grabbed. When companies move slow or lack forward thinking, new names can emerge and grab a market. Aviary has grabbed the mobile photo-editing market, and it’s a huge one. [Photo credit: Flickr]]]> <![CDATA[Flickr’s iOS App Is Still Playing Catch-Up]]> A blog post from Flickr about new updates to its iOS application went relatively unnoticed yesterday. The post announced a series of incremental improvements to an app which has so far barely managed to catch up to the competition after months of abandonment, but has yet to really impress. The latest build brings a few now-standard features like the ability to save photos to your Camera Roll, communicate with @ replies, and more. ]]> <![CDATA[Pulse Gets More Personal, Lets Users Add Their Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr & Tumblr Feeds]]> Pulse, the popular news-reading app for the Web and mobile, just announced that it is going beyond the standard news sources it currently features and is adding authenticated social feeds from social sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr and Facebook to its app.]]> <![CDATA[Will Investors Abandon Facebook Over Instagram?]]> When Facebook (NYSE: FB) acquired Instagram for $1 billion, many investors wondered if the company had overpaid for the photo-sharing app.

Some argued that Facebook had to pay top dollar for the company to prevent its owners from seeking other buyers. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was

]]> <![CDATA[Aviary CEO Says Its Company Goal Is To “Democratize Creativity”, And It’s Clearly Working]]> It’s been launch city for a few big companies this week, as well as new startups. Who’s had the very best week, possibly? That would be Aviary, a company that started out with a direct to consumer product that allowed people to beautify and share their photos. The company decided to switch gears and provide its tools to other apps and sites. Some people call it a pivot, but that word can be annoying. It was a pretty smart move, as Aviary now powers editing and filters for both Flickr’s brand new iOS app and Twitter’s recent refresh. By focusing on editing photos and adding filters, the company can build great things that can be used by anyone who would like its featureset in their own app. I had a chance to speak with Aviary’s CEO and co-founder Avi Muchnick, whose name is all over this company, literally, about everything that’s been going on: ——— TechCrunch: How did the relationship with Flickr get started? Avi Muchnick: We have known the folks at Flickr for a few years and have a great relationship with them, so they are familiar with our solutions. We first officially partnered with them by powering photo editing on Flickr.com in April earlier this year, and that integration was quite successful for everyone involved, so we worked with them again to power the photo editor in their new mobile app released today. TechCrunch: As a company, what are your goals? Avi Muchnick: Our mission is to democratize creativity – we want everyone in the world to feel artistic, no matter their skill level or talents. We’re going to accomplish that by providing our photo editing SDK to every single app where people use photos to express themselves. TechCrunch: What things are coming along that are new? Will partners integrate them? Avi Muchnick: Unfortunately we can’t share the specifics about what’s coming up next but we are always working on innovative new features to take photos to the next level. We always develop new features with our partners needs in mind. We test out all new features in our showcase app (Photo Editor by Aviary) which gives partners a chance to see our full feature set, so they can decide which elements they would like to adopt. TechCrunch: Do you have fans and users who respect your “behind the scenes” nature? Avi Muchnick: Yes. We actually used to]]> <![CDATA[I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning]]> In three short weeks it will be 2013. Someone may want to send a fax to Flickr and Twitter to let them know. Over the past couple of days, both of these services have pulled a move straight out of 2010: they launched new versions of their mobile apps with — get this — filters. Filters! These guys have millions of dollars and thousands of employees at their disposal and this is the kind of innovation they’re dicking around with.]]> <![CDATA[He Who Controls The Mobile Photos, Controls The Universe]]> A funny, and somewhat unexpected thing happened today. Yahoo!, now with Marissa Mayer at the helm, decided that it was time to bring an all new experience to the world when it comes to photo sharing and hosting. It’s a whole lot of new for Flickr’s site and iOS app, and a bit of old nostalgia at play today, which is quite refreshing. One of the killer features of the new Flickr app that most people haven’t picked up on yet is the fact that it’s super simple to build up, and update, your social graph on Flickr. Yes, playing nice with other companies does have its upside. By simply tapping into your Facebook, Twitter and Address Book contacts, you can completely bring Flickr back to life for your friends, and for yourself. It’s quite simple. Let’s not forget that you can also share all of your photos to these services with simplicity. All you have to do is open the app and start connecting your accounts, if they’re not already. With a simple people picker, you can start sending friend requests from Flickr. Some of those folks are already using the service, since basically everyone has a Yahoo! account from “back in the day.” I’ve personally been getting requests all morning, and it’s nice. Below, you can see how simple it is to connect with existing friends using the Flickr app: Will they be shut down by Facebook and Twitter? Let’s hope not. The power of all of this is that Yahoo! has chosen to be a partnership friendly company, basically, not compete with everyone else. With that approach, they are indeed competing with everyone, but in a nicer way. Twitter doesn’t care where you share photos from really, as long as it’s a great experience for its users. Flickr nailed that with Twitter Card integration. When it comes to Instagram and Facebook, locking the photos away is clearly not what Flickr is all about. The company says that it wants to promote and enable content creators, not hide their work away. This approach can win. I predict that this approach will win. And by win, I mean, becoming a leader in the photo space once again. You remember, everyone was on Flickr, talking about Flickr and using Flickr. Will it happen again? Can it? Let’s wait and see.]]> <![CDATA[Flickr belatedly joins the mobile photo wars with new iPhone app]]>


]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo! Makes Its Second Major Upgrade In Two Days: Flickr For iOS Overhauled, Major Update For Web]]> As soon as Marissa Mayer was named Yahoo’s CEO, people were extremely loud about “saving” Flickr. What’s left of the passionate photo community have been waiting for innovation, something that they can get behind and feel good about when they’re spending their time using the site. Today, the company has released a completely overhauled version of Flickr for iOS, its first update since Dec 21, 2011. You read that right, the app hasn’t had an update since last December. For some of us, we’ve moved on to other photo hosting and sharing services, and companies like Facebook and Google have taken a major bite out of Flickr’s powerful photographic stronghold. I’ve personally let my Flickr Pro account lapse, because there just wasn’t enough value in continuing to go back to it. The site itself felt outdated, the features just weren’t up to par with other services, and there was a bit of uneasiness on what the direction of Flickr was. The company hopes that this will change at least some of those fears. It makes sense, since the iPhone has been the most popular “camera” on Flickr for the past seven years. Flickr, the way it should be on mobile The one thing that’s quite obvious with Flickr’s iOS overhaul, as well as the web updates that were pushed today, the company is going for consistency, everywhere. When users are on a mobile device, they should have a comfortable and familiar experience similar to what they’ve experienced on the web, and vice versa. To date, Flickr has simply not cashed in on that promise, but today’s update certainly pushes Yahoo in that direction. It was quite clear with Mail’s upgrade yesterday that this is an important mission for Yahoo! Have a look at the before and after of Flickr for iOS (last year’s on the left): Let’s be completely honest here, the app you see on the left, the one from last year, is a piece of crap. The entire community knew it once it launched, and since it was never updated after, some felt like they might never see a new version again. Yes, it was that bad. Slow, as well. When I played with the new Flickr app on an iPhone 5 yesterday, it was ridiculously snappy, rendered photos quickly, and slid around navigation-wise with pin-point precision. This thing is well done. The photo size isn’t cropped, instead]]> <![CDATA[As Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Shuts Down Glitch, Is He Planning A New Photo Service? ‘You Will Know It Well,’ He Says]]> Glitch, the online, multiplayer gaming world created by Tiny Speck, is closing down December 9 after failing to get enough user traction, and then failing to find a buyer for the product. Right now Tiny Speck's founder, Stewart Butterfield, is working at finding new jobs for the 30 or so people who are getting laid off as a result, and winding down the project, including the forums and issuing refunds for players still in credit. But! Butterfield, who you may best know as one of the co-founders of that hugely popular, early-mover online photo storage/sharing service Flickr (sold to Yahoo for a song -- $35 million -- in 2005), is also cooking something else up. ]]> <![CDATA[When armies become media: Israel live-blogs and tweets an attack on Hamas]]> ]]> <![CDATA[When armies become media: Israel live-blogs and tweets an attack on Hamas]]>


]]> <![CDATA[Instagram is the Lycos of Mobile Photo Sharing]]> Instagram is a great app.

 It is the easiest and most fun way to share an a photo on a mobile device — as of right now.

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]]> <![CDATA[First Look At Snapjoy’s iOS App For Photo Viewing. Apple, Take Notice.]]> I told you about a new feature from the Snapjoy team just the other day, but it seems like things are picking up for the small Boulder company.]]> <![CDATA[That Flickr Account Wasn’t Marissa Mayer, But She *Is* Currently Looking For A New Head Of Flickr]]> Oh Process Journalism, how lucky we here at TechCrunch are that we get to practice you. Anyways, here's what I got: That "Marissa Mayer" account that went up on Flickr earlier today isn't actually Marissa. While Mayer does have a personal Flickr account, it's currently set to Private: We should have known she would never use a corporate Google photo on a Yahoo account!]]> <![CDATA[Pinterest adds support for Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, Soundcloud]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Pinterest adds support for Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, Soundcloud]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Powerful iPhone Camera Apps for all your photography needs besides Instagram]]>

It doesn’t matter if you’re just a beginner or a pro. We’ve selected few powerful photography apps for iPhone, which offers a variety of photo-editing tools for taking quality photos. Combined with creativity these apps will make that your mobile phone, a power-house of amazing photography. Camera+...

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]]> <![CDATA[Flickr Adds Pinterest Buttons To Photo Sharing; All Images Will Be Pinned With Attributions]]> Yahoo-owned Flickr is one of the largest content sources for Pinterest, with users posting Flickr images on the pinboard sharing site in droves. But in order to Pin a Flickr photo on Pinterest, you had to use Pinterest's own Pin button, and you couldn't Pin photos to pinboards directly from Flickr. Until today. Flickr, which just debuted a new HTML5 photo uploader last week, is announcing a partnership with Pinterest to add Pin It buttons to sharing options on the photo sharing platform. Flickr also assures that all pinned images will be properly attributed, regardless where they are pinned from. As Flickr's head of product, Markus Spiering, explains to us, the photos sharing site wanted to make sharing to Pinterest a one to two click process, for both content owners and for people who discover interesting photos on Flickr to be pinned. Now, you'll see a Pin It button on Flickr image pages where you see Twitter, email, Facebook and Tumblr share buttons. You'll be able to share photo pages, favorites, and groups. If you pin a lot, the share menu will prioritize the Pin It button, showing it as one of the two shortcuts on the photo page.]]> <![CDATA[With 7B Photos, Flickr Debuts New Speedy, HTML5 Image Uploader; Drag And Drop Interface, And More]]> Yahoo's photos sharing site, Flickr, has been steadily redesigning a number of components of its platform over the past few months, including editing (courtesy of Aviary), photo views and more. And today, Flickr, which says it is home to more than 7 billion photos, is debuting a new, speedier, HTML5 photo uploader for images. With the HTML5 technology, Flickr's uploader has a more robust experience, including drag and drop functionality. So instead of only being able to upload manually, you can add photos by dragging them into the browser. Yahoo will also show your thumbnail previews of photos, so you can manage and reorder photos before they hit your photostream. And you can zoom, rotate or sort your photos by title within the uploader itself, as opposed to within the photostream.]]> <![CDATA[Instagram rival EyeEm expands to WinPhone and web]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Facebook Instagram affair – The billion-dollar deal]]>

The social network, Facebook acquires the photo-sharing craze Instagram for $1 billion and others scratching their heads. Photo-sharing app Instagram is as a Facebook centered on photos without the clutter. Raises questions about what Facebook could do with their catalog of images? And what about...

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]]> <![CDATA[SD card turns digital cameras into Instagram machines]]> ]]> <![CDATA[500px Debuts ‘Plus’ Paid Membership Plan To Go Head-To-Head Against Flickr]]> 500px, the photo sharing website that has become the new darling of the photo buff set, today rolled out a new $19.95/year 'Plus' membership plan, putting it more squarely in competition with Flickr. Up until now, 500px's premium offering has catered mostly to the "power user" and professional photographer set, with a $49.95/year "Awesome" plan offering unlimited uploads along with a personalized online portfolio. The new "Plus" offering is meant to address more middle market users -- it offers the same unlimited uploads and detailed user analytics provided by the "Awesome" plan, but without the personal portfolio feature. The site also has a free membership that allows for 10 photo uploads per week.]]> <![CDATA[Photo tool provider Aviary replaces Picnik as Flickr’s picture editor]]> ]]> <![CDATA[With Picnik’s Demise, Aviary Brings Its Slick, HTML5 Photo Editor To Flickr’s 75 Million Users]]> Aviary, the company that makes it easy for mobile developers to integrate image editing into their apps, is debuting a huge partnership today. The New York-based startup will be powering photo editing for Flickr's 75 million users. Picnik was the default photo editor for Flickr for some time now, even after Google bought the startup. But Google decided to shut down Picnik, and and editor will be removed from Flickr as of April 19, 2012. ]]> <![CDATA[My First 24 Hours With the New Apple TV]]> DailyFinance.com: Today is a big day for Apple (AAPL) fans. The new Apple TV and the new iPad are both being released to rabid fans across the country. I got in early. I ordered as soon as pre-orders were available. There's a new iPad on a UPS truck that should ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[My First 24 Hours With the New Apple TV]]> DailyFinance.com: Today is a big day for Apple (AAPL) fans. The new Apple TV and the new iPad are both being released to rabid fans across the country. I got in early. I ordered as soon as pre-orders were available. There's a new iPad on a UPS truck that should ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Big UI Changes Coming To Flickr Next Week]]> Yahoo's management of Flickr has been something of a mystery. The photo-hosting service, once far and away the frontrunner and choice of pros and casual shooters alike, has seen few improvements in recent years — an eternity in the fast-moving online photography space. Many (including myself) cling to the service out of a kind of inertia, but it's hard not to be jealous of the whiz-bang layouts and features of newer sites and services like 500px and Instagram. Even communities like Google+ and Pinterest are making Flickr users second-guess themselves. It looks as though Flickr is finally getting the makeover it has deserved for years, though: launching on the 28th is a whole new layout and upload style, with an emphasis on community and consumption.]]> <![CDATA[Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel raised $7.5M from Redpoint]]> ]]> <![CDATA[For social sharing, Apple turns to Twitter again]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Happy birthday, Flickr!]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Of funerals, digital photos and impermanence]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Flickr Joins SOPA Protest, Lets Users Black Out Photos]]> This morning, online photo sharing site Flickr joined the growing number of web companies protesting the SOPA and PIPA legislation, which now include Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, and others. For a 24-hour period, starting today, Flickr is letting its members darken their own photos in an effort to raise awareness about the proposed, highly damaging legislation. But that's not all - Flickr is going a step further, and will allow users to darken other members' photos, too. Now that's what censorship really feels like.]]> <![CDATA[Wow: Instagram’s website gets 300M page views per month]]> ]]> <![CDATA[PhotoPin: Creative Commons Photos For All Your Stock Photo Needs]]> I've been looking for something like this for years: a central, easy-to-use site for stock photos. Called PhotoPin, the site features a search engine that trolls Flickr for pictures. Some of them are also available to buy, but the vast majority are CC licensed. Obviously the site (it's more a widget, really) reminds you to link back to the original image, but if you've ever tried to find an acceptable image for "ninja stormtrooper" then you'll understand the value of the site.]]>