Flickr updates iOS, Android app with vastly improved experience and features
Flickr has updated its mobile app, making it more in-line with other photo apps (filters, short videos, sharing) and giving it an improved user experience.
Flickr’s new ‘photo experience’ leaves beta, offers improved design, faster browsing
Flickr's new "photo experience" leaves the beta stage and is now standard for all users. Which is good, because it's much better and faster than before.
Another Flickr redesign on the way – slicker and waves bye-bye to Yahoo toolbar
Less than a year after it had a major makeover, Flickr looks set for another redesign in the coming weeks, bringing with it a slicker interface and emphasized sharing options. The much-criticized Yahoo toolbar will reportedly be dumped, too.
Getty Images to end Flickr partnership, maintains existing users’ contracts
Getty Images has decided not to renew its partnership with Flickr, which allowed contributors to showcase and license their work on Getty's networks.
NASA releases set of awesome Gravity-inspired images just ahead of Oscars
Hurricanes, space walks, the Hubble space telescope – it's all there in NASA's awesome set of Gravity-inspired images, released just as the acclaimed space movie is expected to pick up a clutch of Oscars in LA Sunday night.
Flickr modernizes photo and video Web embeds, finally gets with the times
Continuing its improvements to become more social again, Yahoo has updated its Web embed feature with more dynamic coding.
Yahoo announces Flickr Photo Books, so you can print more than your Instagrams
Now Instagram images aren't the only photos you can turn into memorabilia; Flickr is now getting the print treatment too.
Flickr launches Photo Books, turn your images into a hardcover for $35
Flickr on Tuesday announced a new Photo Book service, allowing users of the photo-sharing site to quickly and easily create image-filled hardcovers. Prices start at $34.95 for a 20-page book.
Here’s how to find the most popular Internet images in real time
If you want to see which images are capturing the Internet's interest, Oublio can give you a streamlined overview.
Everything you need to know about a little app called FBStalker
A new app called FBStalker can find all your weaknesses, but there's a bright side to this devious software.
Yahoo’s not done with Flickr, continues to tweak redesign with new photo page
Continuing to make improvements since its major overhaul earlier this year, Flick is redesigning its photo page with better navigation and features.
Zeega is the interactive storytelling tool you never knew you always wanted
There are already a lot of storytelling tools out there, but Zeega provides an interesting platform for interactive multimedia slideshows.
Better late than never: Flickr iOS app update adds live filters, free premium camera tools
Yahoo has given the Flickr iOS app a nice refresh complete with new camera tools, live filters, and the ability to customize personal filters.
Flickr turns a bit purple with arrival of ‘intrusive’ Yahoo toolbar – users not happy
The Flickr community has reacted badly to a new Yahoo toolbar that appeared on the photo site last week. Designed to "make it easier to access other places in the Yahoo network", the bar has been slammed for its poor design and intrusiveness.
The beauty in the glitch: surreal Apple Maps errors make for Dali-like art
Peder Norrby, founder of Trapcode, a Swedish graphics company, has complied many of the Apple Maps photographic glitches into a set on his Flickr account.
Pinterest is reversing its no-nudity policy
Pinterest has strictly barred nudity, but at the behest of photographers and artists, the social network is taking a step back to rethink its policy.
Yahoo enlivens Flickr with a Pinterest-esque redesign and 1TB of space
Answering the call to make it awesome again, Yahoo unveiled a redesigned Flickr that's more photo centric. Yahoo is also offering 1TB of storage.
Gnip hits the social media data jackpot with API access to Instagram, Bitly, and Reddit
Social media data gathering has been made even better for companies as Gnip gains access to six new public APIs, enriching their social reporting even more.
Hacker group Anonymous sets its sights on North Korea, vandalizes Twitter and Flickr accounts
Hacktivist group Anonymous is out to get institutions that are bad, bad, bad. Its latest target is North Korea and its social media accounts and websites.
Flickr for iOS jumps on the hashtag #bandwagon with new update
Flickr is following the hashtag trend by finally supporting hashtags, in its recent iOS update.
Yahoo updates Flickr iPhone app with tagging, faster uploads, volume shutter and more
A couple of months after a pretty major revamp, the Flickr iPhone app has just received another update. New features include the ability to tag friends, faster uploads, volume up shutter release and more.
Flickr privacy flub exposes private photos for three weeks
Privacy settings on some Flickr photos had been changed, which Flickr chalks up to a bug, for three weeks. The bug has since been patched.
Aviary nabs another major partner, Photobucket, to use its image-editing tools
Strengthening its relationship base with high-profile Web services, Aviary announced that Photobucket will be implementing its image-editing tools.
500px attempts to woo professional snappers at Flickr with new $20 Plus plan
It only launched three years ago but in that short time 500px has become quite a hit with photographers. Today it hoped to attract a few more to its site by launching a new membership option — Plus — which undercuts Flickr's Pro plan by $5.
GadgetTrak launches CameraTrace: Photo thieves beware
Photography will once again benefit from the digital age as a new service uses the Web to locate stolen cameras.
Study: More Americans shunning point-and-shoots in favor of smartphone cameras
A study looking at camera usage in the US has found that more and more people are turning to their smartphone to take photos, with the percentage of pictures taken on such devices jumping 10 percent in the last year.
PlayStation Vita adds Flickr to social channels available at launch
Sony announces its list of "social essentials" available on the PlayStation Vita at launch.
iPhone 4S zooms up Flickr camera-phone chart
Owners of the recently released iPhone 4S are evidently getting good use out of its camera, with the device zooming up the Flickr chart to become the second most popular smartphone among users uploading pictures to the photo sharing website. The iPhone 4 retains the top spot.
Artist prints 24 hours of Flickr pics for photo exhibition
Artist Eric Kessels has printed out every single photo uploaded to Flickr in a single 24-hour period. The installation forms part of an exhibition at an Amsterdam gallery looking at the future of photography.
Nearly 300,000 status updates are posted to Facebook every minute
With users of Facebook endlessly uploading new status updates to their profile pages, the social network receives a bit over 17 million status updates every hour.
The world according to Flickr
Researchers from Oxford University's Internet Institute have compiled a map that shows where every geotagged photo uploaded to Flickr was taken.
Flickr unveils ‘Photo Session’ feature and Android app
Yahoo-owned Flickr beefed up the Flickrverse on Thursday with the launch of Photo Session and its official Android app.
Flickr founders launch quirky new MMO: Glitch
Glitch, an ambitious and quirky MMO by Flickr founders has finally stepped out of beta today. Earn abilities and form communities with friends to create a mythological culture that will survive into a benevolent future.
Facebook’s photo collection 10,000 times larger than Library of Congress
With billions of photos uploaded onto Facebook each month, it's no surprise that the social networking giant likely houses the largest collection of photographs in the United States.
Flickr adds location-based “Geofences” to help protect your photos
Trying to keep up with sharing settings on various picture albums can eat up a chunk of time for the photographer concerned about privacy. Flickr is rolling out a new way to manage privacy based on location.
Pixable adds Twitter, videos to its photo-curator application
Pixable will add Twitter images and videos to its list of aggregated images.
Flickr hits 6 billion photos
Photo sharing site Flickr has hit a new record: more than 6 billion photos have been uploaded to the site.
Instagram hits 150 million photos, still behind Flickr, Facebook
Instagram continues to storm the photo-sharing market with sharp increases in user and upload numbers.