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6T for 99 dollars with family pack. More than necessary And its not only images. Images are 20% of my cloud only
So you agree that “same price” is incorrect. But, true of course, Flickr is just for photographs.
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good point! Instagram happened!
While Instagram and Flickr (at least in theory) serve a different audience. Flickr is for the professional or aspiring amateur photographer, to manage their photos and build show cases. Maybe even selling their photos online. Instagram is a mass market social network
I found my wedding photographer on Instagram, as did a lot of my friends. Instagram is just the starting point of course, but since so many people use it * it seems like a natural place to market photography services.
Later, my wife wanted to do a photoshoot of us on our trips to Paris and Hawaii. We found local professional photographers there via Instagram also.
* IIRC Instagram is considered "uncool" by younger generations, so who knows where things will be many years down the road.
There are a couple of threads here that argue Marissa Mayer was the problem. I don't think that can be true. Mayer took the reins at Yahoo in 2012. Facebook had crushed Flickr in desktop-shared photos by 2009 or so, and over 2010-2012 or so, Instagram had created a whole new photo experience for mobile that Flickr missed. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012. Mayer may or may not have exac…
Butterfield (one of the founders of Flickr, and later, Slack) is quite a character. He and Caterina (Fake, the other co-founder of Flickr) were working on a game, a so-called "Game Never Ending" when they realized that they needed to come up with a way for people to store screenshots and share them. Thus, Flickr was born (this is why some URLs in Flickr had ".gne" extensions). Yahoo acquired Flicker in 2005, and a fe…
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I heard Tinder was originally going to be a coupon app before they pivoted.
Twitter was a side project that took over the office.
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Flickr had already failed before Mayer ever showed up at Yahoo. They pretty much ignored it after the purchase aside from forcing yahoo logins. Mayer’s failure with Flickr is the same as SmugMug’s: an inability to revive a dying product. At least she tried. But also Flickr was hardly the biggest problem at Yahoo.
> At least she tried. There are no participation trophies in business. This isn't kindergarten. Before spending shareholder's money on an expensive project she should have checked if it makes sense to spend money on it. If she made the wrong call she alone is responsible for the mistake. > They pretty much ignored it after the purchase aside from forcing yahoo logins. Not true. They fully revamped the user experience…
Thanks for the regurgitated platitudes. Your stern appraisal of CEOs is duly noted.
> Before spending shareholder's money on an expensive project she should have checked if it makes sense to spend money on it. If she made the wrong call she alone is responsible for the mistake.
On what basis do you assume Flickr’s revamp was an expensive project? I have no idea what it really cost, but to a multi-billion dollar company, I doubt it was really that much.
Sure, she owns the failed revamp though.
> Not true. They fully revamped the user experience, and Marissa Mayer was actively involved in the project.
“They” referred to the company prior to Mayer becoming CEO. Yahoo owned Flickr for 7 years before Mayer took over. Flickr felt stagnant for most of that time.
It’s really weird to be ratholing on Flickr as if it was the reason for Yahoo failing. If Mayer had ignored Flickr like the previous 2 CEOs, Yahoo would have failed just as surely and Flickr’s decline would have been just as rapid.
Hah. Whatever happened to Instagram? After all this time, money, and engineering talent, they lack basic features like "Give me a URL to all the photos I (or any user) have tagged with X" that flickr has pretty much had since the neolithic era. Instagram is still basically a toy app that was lucky enough not to be mismanaged to death. Current flickr management has done what they can, but as a product flickr missed ou…
Instagram still doesn't have an iPad app Bizarre considering they have some of the finest iOS developers in the world
Butterfield (one of the founders of Flickr, and later, Slack) is quite a character. He and Caterina (Fake, the other co-founder of Flickr) were working on a game, a so-called "Game Never Ending" when they realized that they needed to come up with a way for people to store screenshots and share them. Thus, Flickr was born (this is why some URLs in Flickr had ".gne" extensions). Yahoo acquired Flicker in 2005, and a fe…
I had a (very) small part in it -- in 2001, I was chatting with Caterina, and recommended the book "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse. She then recommended it to Stewart, who found in it at least one of his inspirations for GNE.
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I don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.
That’s good, but the part about losing access to the original files, if true, is a deal-breaker.
That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline.
Butterfield (one of the founders of Flickr, and later, Slack) is quite a character. He and Caterina (Fake, the other co-founder of Flickr) were working on a game, a so-called "Game Never Ending" when they realized that they needed to come up with a way for people to store screenshots and share them. Thus, Flickr was born (this is why some URLs in Flickr had ".gne" extensions). Yahoo acquired Flicker in 2005, and a fe…
The last interview was with Stewart. He walked in with his laptop and pulled up my resume and saw that I was from Texas. He asked if I'd ever been to Marfa. He then asked if I'd ever been to El Paso. He then asked if I'd ever heard the song El Paso by Marty Robbins. We then sat there and listened to El Paso for the entire song. Then we made some more chit-chat and that was the end of my interview.
I didn't get the gig but I did find out my flight back to DFW was first class so that was nice.