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DinSide Flickr.com was once the most important image sharing sites on the Internet, used by amateurs as well as professionals to store and showcase their faves.
Flickr, however, was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, and since then it has only gone down. It happened what often happens when a small company is acquired by a large one: development stopped so to speak up.
The emergence of social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Google+ did that Flickr fell miles behind. Mobile Development managed Yahoo! nor to follow. The death sentence was handed down almost in a Gizmodo article called.
Flickr would, however, prove to be not as dead as many would think. Yesterday relieved Yahoo! veil for a complete overhaul of the image service with a completely new design and the whole 1TB of free storage as well as video images.
– We want Flickr to blow your mind again, saying Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, at a press conference in New York on Monday night, according to TheNextWeb.
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New design, same features
Flickr is reconditioned almost beyond recognition, but not necessarily in a bad way. Gone are most of the white gaps and unnecessary text, now meet you rather than with a stream of images that take up the entire screen. It is reminiscent of the tiles from Windows 8 or Pinterest.
Profile pages have also been given a new look with cover images in the style of Facebook and Google+.
Flickr simply looks more like a social photo sharing service anno 2013. Otherwise, most of the old functionality in place, both in terms of search and display of images.
You can comment on photos or peek at the EXIF ??data if you wish. The only difference is that the picture is much bigger than before. Image upload functions as before, and you can easily upload multiple images at a time – for example by using drag & drop.
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Most storage?
As noted increased storage to 1TB, which according to Flickr to make it possible to store 537 731 images at 6.5 megapixels. Capacity is far greater than any other photo sharing services offer today. Google for example, only 15 GB free.
There is admittedly some limitations regarding the file upload with free version of Flickr. Images can not be larger than 200 MB. It is possible to upload video in 1080p, but they can not exceed 1 GB in size, and the online play is limited to 3 minutes per video.
free version is also funded by advertising. Want to get rid of the ads, you can upgrade to an “Ad free” account which costs $ 50 a year, around 300. It is also possible to double the storage to 2TB. Such “doublr” account costs however $ 500 a year, almost 3,000 million.
In addition to the new Flickr.com, Yahoo! has also released an update to Flickr’s Android app with new UI and editing functions. The same innovations that were introduced to the Flickr app for iOS last December.
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