Tag archive: Flickr

Dubbed the “Super Bowl Social Media Command Center” by Raidious CEO Taulbee Jackson, the Indianapolis digital marketing firm will be handling all communication regarding the Super Bowl with 16 full-time employees and 30 volunteers, mostly journalism students from Butler University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Ball State University. Jackson moved Raidious employees into a brand new office for the event and… Read More

Flickr is Yahoo’s saving grace. Amidst the site’s myriad of problems and ill-defined purpose, the photo-sharing platform has been a beacon of hope, with its dedicated users and razor-sharp focus. Which is why Flickr subscribers are concerned about Yahoo’s direction for the site. Former Flickr employee Nolan Caudill says the site will be cutting a crucial portion of its customer support team. “For reasons I don’t know, Yahoo laid off the highest… Read More

You may remember hearing about photographer John Heller’s ordeal recovering his $9,000 worth of camera gear this summer. The thieves unwittingly uploaded photos taken with the stolen equipment, including a Nikon D3, to sites popular photo sharing platforms—which is just what GadgetTrak wanted. The site was then testing a beta application that would scan photo-sharing sites like Flickr and 500px for images uploaded from potentially stolen… Read More

As the tech inside smartphone devices continues to improve, more and more people are choosing to leave their stand-alone cameras and video cameras at home, according to data from market research company NPD. Its study involving US adults found that this year 27 percent of photos were taken using a smartphone such as Apple’s iPhone, 10 percent up on the previous year. In contrast, photos taken with stand-alone cameras dropped from 52 percent to… Read More

Sony has been hyping the social potential of the PlayStation Vita for quite a while now, touting the integration of Twitter, Facebook, and FourSquare with the portable gaming system. During a PS Vita event that occurred yesterday in London, popular photo-sharing network Flickr was added to the list of “Social Essentials” at launch. The PlayStation Blog has details from the Vita event, and confirmed the four-network list of social… Read More

Well, that didn’t take long. Only a month after its release, the iPhone 4S has zoomed up the camera-phone charts to become the second most popular smartphone used by Flickr users to upload photos. A graph on the popular photo sharing website shows that the iPhone 4S is now ahead of the iPhone 3G and 3GS, as well as the HTC EVO 4G. Way in front, however, is the iPhone 4, although that model has been out almost 18 months. Indeed, the iPhone 4… Read More

If someone asked you how many pictures are uploaded to Flickr in a typical day, the answer “lots” would be a fair, if rather unspecific, response. It appears that artist Erik Kessels not only wanted to know how many photos are uploaded, but also how it would look if he printed all of them. So, armed with a printer, a ton of paper and several gallons of ink, he set about printing every photo put up on Flickr in a single 24-hour period. The result… Read More

Vancouver-based social media and promotions agency Popcorn released an infographic on its blog detailing actions taking place across the major social networks every 60 seconds. With more than 800 million users on Facebook at of late, over half a million comments are posted on Facebook every single minute. Over 290,000 status updates are posted to profiles and nearly 140,000 photos are uploaded per minute. At that rate, it would take about 15… Read More

A team of researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have gathered data from Flickr to paint a unique picture of what the world looks like. The result is this map (above — click for full size), which shows every geotagged picture uploaded to the popular photo-sharing and hosting site. The project was led by Dr. Mark Graham, who spends his days studying the “geographies of the Internet,” according to his official Oxford… Read More

Photo-sharing service Flickr unveiled Photo Session and the Flickr Android app on Thursday. Photo Session is a feature designed to encourage friends and family to share photos at the same time, no matter where they are in the world. Say you’ve taken a thousand photos on your recent trip to Vietnam and you want to share them with relatives and friends at the same time. Well, the first thing to do is edit them down to the best 50, because you can… Read More

Need a new social gaming addiction? Glitch, the long-awaited, Flash-based, browser-centric MMO brought to you from the minds that birthed Flickr, was launched earlier today. The quirky non-violent massively multi-player game, set in the minds of eleven giants, finally left a lengthy beta Tuesday. The central idea in Glitch is that in order to save the future, players travel back in time and shape the creation myth. There is one shared world,… Read More

According to a recent blog post from 1000Memories, the company estimates that Facebook currently houses over 140 billion photos uploaded by users, a figure that's 10,000 times larger than all the photos housed by the Library of Congress. Based off a figure from a Facebook engineer earlier this year, the social network oversees more than 200 million photos uploaded per day, approximately 6 billion per month. Techcrunch also reported that… Read More

Announced yesterday on an official blog post, Flickr launched a location specific service that assigns privacy settings based on the geographical location of each picture uploaded to the photo sharing service. Calling the new feature “Geofences”, Flickr users can bring up a map interface and search for a new location like an address. After choosing a location, the user can pick a preset diameter between 50 to 10,000 meters in… Read More

We were introduced to Pixable earlier this year, a site that ingeniously capitalizes on the overwhelming slew of photo-sharing platforms out there. The whole idea revolves around minimizing the time you spend bouncing from site to site, checking out your friends’ photos. Instead, they are all aggregated by Pixable, which shows you (via mobile app or Web) the best of Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram. Now that list is going to become much more… Read More

Venerable online photo sharing site Flickr—arguably one of Yahoo's few remaining success stories—has set a new record: earlier this week, the site marked its 6 billionth photo upload. Appropriately enough for a photography site, the image was a shot of a Montbretia flower covered in water droplets, taken by Flickr user eon60. “Over the last 5 years uploads have been increasing 20 percent year-over-year and we love… Read More