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Yahoo Debuts New Applications for iPhone, BlackBerry

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2009 - 12:08pm.
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) has introduced three new mobile applications, which are variously available for Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone and RIM's (NASD: RIMM) BlackBerry. Flickr for Mobile, available only for iPhone and iPod touch, is a free application that lets users upload and tag photos and videos. The company also released Yahoo Fantasy Football for Mobile, and a Yahoo Finance for Mobile application available for the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold, Tour and 8900 series.

iPhone Overtakes Canon Rebel as Top Flickr Uploader

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 19, 2009 - 12:13pm.
Los Angeles - Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone has surpassed Canon's Digital Rebel XTi as the most popular camera model being used to upload photos to Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) sharing site Flickr, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new iPhone 3GS model -- which upped from 2- to 3-megapixels, and added auto-focus and white balance features, and the ability of the device to upload photos instantly was credited for the uptick in traffic.

tags: Mobile | Apple | Images | Flickr | iPhone |

Yahoo Enables Flickr Photo Posting to Twitter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:23am.
San Francisco - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing site has launched a new feature that lets users easily post Flick photos to their Twitter accounts. The Flickr2Twitter feature lets users post photos to Twitter with a new button above the photos on Flickr, which creates a shortened URL at the address flic.kr.

Army Unblocks Some Social Networking Sites on U.S. Bases

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 15, 2009 - 8:13am.
Washington - For the first time, Army soldiers at most U.S. bases now have access to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, following a new order issued by Army officials and published by Wired.com.

GSA Signs Deals with Facebook, Other Social Media Firms

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 29, 2009 - 7:13am.
Washington - In a move designed to make it far easier for government agencies to share information over the Internet, the General Services Administration (GSA) has signed agreements with a group of social media services including Facebook, MySpace, Blist, Vimeo, Slideshare and AddThis. The deals allow other federal agencies to legally use the Web tools without negotiating their own terms of service.

Flickr Opens Video to All, Adds HD Video for Pro Accounts

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 3, 2009 - 1:52pm.
San Francisco - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) online photo-sharing site Flickr has opened up the ability to upload video to all users, a feature previously only available to Pro account subscribers. The site will now also allow Pro accountholders, who pay $25 annually, to upload HD video to Flickr -- although all of the site's 35 million members are still limited to uploading videos no longer than 90 seconds, and no larger than 150MB.

tags: Video | HD | Yahoo | Images | Flickr |

Yahoo Layoffs Include Flickr Veteran

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2008 - 11:49am.

London - The round of 1,500 layoffs at Yahoo this week included a number of high-profile members of the team at photo-sharing site Flickr, including George Oates, designer of the site's clean user interface, the Guardian reported. Two other unnamed members of the team were also cut, according to the Guardian's source. The site also reportedly was told that Flickr is among the assets that Yahoo was prepared to sell to Microsoft.

tags: Yahoo | Layoffs | Images | Flickr |

Buzz Watch: An Insider's Guide To Marketing On Flickr

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on August 25, 2008 - 7:37am.
Now that I am getting back on the grid after three weeks in Asia, I thought a good follow up post to my time covering the Olympics in Beijing would be sharing some tips on one site that I ended up very actively using throughout the Olympics: Flickr. I have had a Flickr account for several years now, but always looked at the examples of Brian Solis and Josh Hallet (among others) and felt I wasn't quite the super user of Flickr that I aspired to be. While I'm not as profilic in capturing the people from all the events I attend as those two, I do consider myself an enthusiastic amateur photographer and at one point even considered doing it professionally.

Buzz Watch: Sorry I Missed Your Party and Hot Chicks With Douche Bags

Authored by Jay Baage on June 20, 2008 - 7:28am.

In the Web 2.0 era, simplicity is king. No matter if you're talking about user interface, ease of use or the idea for a blog. To take the latter as an example; there are a number of great blogs out there using other people's images in creative and somewhat controversial ways. The concept is as simple as it is genious: 1. Find a topic that people can releate to. 2. Search for user generated pictures that relate to that topic on a photo-sharing service such as Flickr (the best one) or a social network. 3. Post the picture to your blog with witty commentary. 4. Watch traffic grow and comments flowing in. Three hilarious blogs built using this recipe for success that I recommend to check out is Sorry I Missed Your Party, Hot Chicks With Douche Bags and Demonbaby's MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards. Do you have any other good examples, perhaps using videos instead of photos, post a comment and share the fun!

Analysis: Battle Of The Commodity Web Applications

Authored by Scott Karp on April 16, 2008 - 5:56am.

Facebook has had an update feature similar to Twitter for a while. Now Facebook has a feature that lets users add feeds from other web services like Flickr and del.icio.us — just like FriendFeed. From a technology perspective, Twitter and FriendFeed are now reducable to Facebook features. Even if those two apps are currently more robust than their equivalent Facebook features, there’s nothing to stop Facebook from copying them in their entirety.

Yahoo's Flickr Photo-sharing Site Debuts Video Uploads

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 9, 2008 - 9:29am.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing site on Wednesday launched an anticipated video-sharing feature for its 42 million monthly users.

tags: Video | Yahoo | Images | Flickr |

Buzz Watch: Flickr (Finally) Launches Video Application

Authored by Jay Baage on April 9, 2008 - 6:18am.

Flickr, my favorite photo sharing service (owned by Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO)), just launched a much anticipated video service. The embedded player is really nice (see above), but a limiting feature is that the videos can't be more than 90 seconds with a max upload size of 150MB. Why? The company claims that it is because Flickr is all about "sharing photos that you yourself have taken", hence they don't want people to upload copyright protected videos like movies and TV shows. It will be interesting to see how that strategy works out for them. BTW, pretty cool that they choose to announce the new service with a puppet show. I haven't seen that before...

Yahoo's Flickr to Test Video Service in April

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 17, 2008 - 10:56am.

San Francisco - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing service intends to branch out into video with the beta launch of a new Flickr video service next month, CNET News.com reported. The company told CNET that Flickr Video will not replace Yahoo Video, and that the service is not meant to compete with YouTube. Flickr director of product management Kakul Srivastava told CNET the service has to appeal in an "authentic" way to the Flickr community.

Two-Billionth Photo Posted to Flickr

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 14, 2007 - 1:48pm.

Vancouver, Canada - Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing site is now host to over two billion photos, as a user from Australia posted the two-billionth image to the site yesterday. The Vancouver-based was founded in February 2004, and acquired by Yahoo in March 2005.

tags: Yahoo | Images | Flickr |

Creative Commons Sued Over Flickr Photo Used in Virgin Mobile Ad

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 25, 2007 - 11:00am.

San Francisco - Creative Commons, the nonprofit that advocates for less-restrictive copyright license terms, has found itself the target of a lawsuit, after a photo of a 16-year-old posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons license found its way into a Virgin Mobile ad campaign.

Analysis: Five Web 2.0 Sites That Don't Forget About Usability

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on September 4, 2007 - 3:40am.

Several years ago I wrote a two hundred page thesis for a Masters program all about user interfaces.  The premise was that simplicity and usability were guiding principles to making any online site successful (seems obvious, I know, but it didn't use to be).  Since the late nineties, the importance of usability had slowly been getting more and more important. 

Analysis: Flickr Traffic up 38% in Past Four Weeks, Now #2 Photo Site

Authored by LeeAnn Prescott on July 10, 2007 - 3:00am.

In June, Yahoo! Photos began to close, and users are being encouraged to join Flickr. Later in the month, Yahoo! began including Flickr images in Yahoo! Image Search. These efforts have resulted in an increase in Flickr's US market share of 38% in the past four weeks (week ending 7/7/07 vs. week ending 6/9/07). Flickr is now the #2 photography website in the US, with 6.42% of category visits for the week ending 7/7/07.

Buzz Watch: 7-Eleven Stores Turn Into Kwik-E-Marts, Promoting The Simpsons Movie

Authored by Jay Baage on July 5, 2007 - 12:58am.
The other day I blogged about a cool feature on The Simpsons Movie website that lets you create your own Simpsons avatar in preparation for the premiere of the movie on July 27th. Today I ran across another smart promotion - Several 7-Eleven stores in the US and Candada have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts - the Simpsons' convenience store of choice.

Buzz Watch: Beastie Boys Goes Viral With New Instrumental Album

Authored by Jay Baage on June 26, 2007 - 10:13am.
Beastie Boys are back after three years with the new album "The Mix Up" made up of cool instrumental jams. If you have not listed to it yet, I can highly recommend it. Since the Beastie Boys are down with social media, I have embedded a two YouTube videos, “The Rat Cage” and “Off The Grid”. The Boys have also set up a blog and a photostream on Flickr that you can check out (this picture is from that stream, taken in Istanbul).

Buzz Watch: Flickrvision and Twittervision

Authored by Jay Baage on May 16, 2007 - 9:58pm.
What do you get if you you mash up two of the hottest web services out there, Twitter and Flickr, with television? The answer is Twittervision and Flickrvision. The Adobe Systems software developer Chris Bailey has taken it one step further and created Visionary Saver, a MacOS X screen saver using both Twittervision and Flickrvision. I have installed it and it is really neat. Thanks to Laughing Squid for bringing all of this to my attention.