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One of the largest photo management platforms out there, SmugMug, has made a big splash in the industry today by acquiring Flickr. For the last 15 years, SmugMug has focused on helping and supporting photographers with their consumer-friendly business model, which doesn't rely upon forcing advertising on visitors or...
Flickr has recently made changes to their feature set and locked the "Auto-Uploadr" feature behind its paid "Pro" service.
The desktop Auto-Uploadr tool allows you to automatically upload photos from your hard drive to Flickr, a feature that set Flickr apart from other free competitors. However, with this new move, Flickr is taking a risk that...
Earlier this week, The Project Apollo Archive, in collaboration with NASA, released over 8,400 high-resolution images from the historic Apollo missions. All of the photos, which have been left unprocessed, are available for public consumption on Flickr, where they are licensed under Public Domain. As such, the photos can be shared, altered and...
Earlier this year, we shared with you PixBuf, an online platform that helps you simplify the process of sharing your images across multiple social networks, most notably Facebook, Flickr, 500px and Twitter.
Towards the end of the article we mentioned PixBuf would soon be releasing a built-in analytics tool to help you get an overview of how your...
It’s been two years since Flickr killed off Flickr Pro as a premium Flickr experience, opting instead to give everyone a flat-rate experience to compete with the likes of Facebook and what was then known as Google+ Photos.
Today, though, Flickr announced it’s bringing Flickr Pro, and its paid subscription plans, back from the dead at the request...
In its latest 4.0 update, Flickr unveiled a new auto-tagging system designed to intelligently determine the subject matter of an image and appropriately suggest tags for the images. Unfortunately, the automated tagging system isn’t nearly as intelligent – or politically correct – as Flickr was hoping.
A number of users...
Flickr’s latest update dramatically improved its search function by better providing intelligent, contextualized search results. But as rich as its search capabilities may now be, it still doesn’t allow you to search for photos based on camera settings.
Enter Shutterdial, a search platform that does just this....
If you’re a constant user of social media, be it for personal or business reasons, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Buffer, a service designed to efficiently schedule and plan out content on a multitude of social networks.
Buffer is a wonderful resource, but the problem is it’s meant mostly for links and text...
In an effort to fulfill CEO Marissa Mayer’s promise to ‘make Flickr awesome again,’ Yahoo has unveiled yet another massive update to the photo sharing platform, both in the browser and in its apps.
Deemed Flickr 4.0, the update brings about a handful of visual changes as well as a few new tools and features to further...
Flickr looks to be testing out a new feature called Camera Roll. Still in beta and not yet live for everyone, Camera Roll is a personal interface within Flickr designed to more effectively help you browse, manage and edit photos and their metadata.
Details on the new feature are scarce, as only one Reddit thread and a...
Each year Flickr releases a detailed report of camera rankings amongst its 100 million users. This past weekend, Flickr shared its 2014 data with the world. And while most of it remains unchanged from previous years, there are a few standout mentions that show just how much the photography environment is changing.
Most...
Yahoo-owned photo sharing service Flickr has just followed in the footsteps of rivals such as 500px, announcing that it is getting into the stock photo business. If you're a Flickr user, though, you may find the program rather opaque.
For one thing, it's apparently not open to all Flickr members. Doubtless...
Ever wondered what it is that makes some of your photos popular? You're not alone: MIT student Aditya Khosla wondered the same thing, as did his fellow researchers, Atish Das Sarma of eBay, and Raffay Hamid of DigitalGlobe. Where you likely differ from these three gentlemen, though, is that you probably only...
Cloud-based photo storage services keep popping up like dandelions in the spring. Over the past couple of weeks alone, Dropbox announced a new photo-centric service, Flickr updated its mobile apps to act more like Instagram, and Eye-Fi has even announced a service. How do you even start to figure out which one is the...
"Awesome! Another way to comment about pictures on my phone!"
--No one, ever
Ok, we'll admit to some undue snark there. Let's be clear: Flickr's progress this year has been great to witness. The latest update, version 3.0, of its iOS and Android apps shows Yahoo! is still hard at work. The web giant revamped...
When Flickr completely overhauled its design last May, the results were contentious, and it was then tweaked even further last October. Now, according to Kara Swisher of ReCode, yet another redesign is in the works, and it's one that'll put an even deeper emphasis on images over everything else.
Swisher reports that...
For half a decade, Flickr users have had the option to license their images through Getty Image's Flickr Collection. Partly curated and partly open to submission, it allowed photographers a chance to monetize the photos they'd already uploaded, without much extra work. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, Getty has contacted...
The British Library has taken an immense volume of digitized images, and released them into the wilds on Flickr for people to use, play with, remix, and just generally do whatever they want to. More than a million images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books have been released in an immense Flickr upload, and the...
For the last six months or so, it's been all change at Yahoo-owned photo-sharing service Flickr, and as we've reported on our news page, that change hasn't always been well-received. The company's latest tweak to its offerings is likely to prove rather more popular, however.
Flickr's new photo book publishing service...
More and more, social media sites are becoming the best way to keep track of major events — especially disasters. People are able to quickly and easily upload images in affected areas, beating news reporters to the punch. It's something we saw very vividly with the Colorado floods earlier this year. And just over a year...
