Flickr is dead
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Flickr is dead
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#3Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased.
As for Flickr: isn't it strange how the products with the worst user interfaces always seem to become the most popular? Same with Facebook.
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#4I don't know what the article is about, since the website seems to be down, but i found Google+ to be an awesome photo community.
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#5I knew I'd heard that name before:
> Flickr will be here long after you are and its cultural significance to our world will outlast your quarter to quarter financial results.
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-open-letter-to-carol-bartz...
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#6Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased. As for Flickr: isn't it strange how the products with the worst user interfaces always seem to become the most popular? Same with Facebook.
Or: they become popular despite, and then they're too scared to improve the UI for fear of change?
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#7The short version of the article is that Flickr hasn't changed in years, no one at Yahoo seems interested in it, the community is drifting away, and they're heading towards Google+.
I think this is pretty much true, though I'm not sure Google+ will really be where everyone will end up - it certainly lacks a lot of things (like shared circles for example), and whether Google will support those communities by creating the features they want is really up in the air right now.
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#8Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased. As for Flickr: isn't it strange how the products with the worst user interfaces always seem to become the most popular? Same with Facebook.
I don't agree with the interface comment. Facebook became popular in part because it had a much cleaner, more usable, interface than MySpace. I think the same is true of Flickr, though I'm not a heavy user.
It's probably true that other, newer companies have created better interfaces since then, but I'd argue that they became popular because their interfaces were superior at the time.
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#9After 10 minutes his website finally loaded and I got a chance to read his blog entry. What he backs his claim up with in the end is that a lot of his photographer friends, some of which work for Google, talk about Google+ instead of Flickr, and that there's a tipping point situation happening because the 10% that represent the "best" Flickr contributors are moving to Google+.
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#10Not that I have high hopes for Flickr, but sampling the trends going on a walk with Google employees is probably a bit biased. As for Flickr: isn't it strange how the products with the worst user interfaces always seem to become the most popular? Same with Facebook.
I don't agree with the interface comment. Facebook became popular in part because it had a much cleaner, more usable, interface than MySpace. I think the same is true of Flickr, though I'm not a heavy user. It's probably true that other, newer companies have created better interfaces since then, but I'd argue that they became popular because their interfaces were superior at the time.
> I think the same is true of Flickr, though I'm not a heavy user.
Might have been true in the past, but I'll be damned if I don't just insta-close any flickr link I click by mistake these days. I just want to see a picture and half the time I get these two dots swirling around for what seems like half an hour, until it leads me to a half-broken interface with a tiny dot of a picture.
Not worth it.