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Engaged Reading Digest: revisiting old community connections Members Public

Flickr, LinkedIn, community management? It's like 2008, all over again!

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
engaged reading digest

The iPhone rules Flickr - and is pushing other cameras into niches Members Public

Flickr has published its annual round-up of the most-used cameras [http://blog.flickr.net/2016/12/06/smartphones-dominate-flickr-in-2016-apple-leads/] . Guess which one wins? Apple, of course, is a proxy for “iPhone” here. The iPhone is the biggest camera brand on Flickr by a significant margin. And I bet you it would

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
cameras

Flickr now in maintenance mode? Members Public

Yahoo is stopping investing in Flickr [http://petapixel.com/2016/02/03/flickr-to-be-scaled-back-as-yahoo-trims-1700-jobs/] Sad time for those of us that still use and enjoy Flickr: > While products such as Yahoo Games will soon be shut down, Yahoo says that it will be reducing its investment in non-essential properties such

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Adam Tinworth
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Flickr embraces the public domain Members Public

This is an interesting move: > But we’ve heard from our community that we’re missing two important designations: Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0). Many members of our community want to be able to upload images that are no longer protected by copyright and correctly tag them

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
copyright

Flickr arrives on the iPad - finally Members Public

Few apps have deserved the response “at last” more than the Flickr iPad app [http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/10/17/announcing-flickr-for-ipad/]. The fact that it has taken over four years for this to surface is a sign of just how much Yahoo has dropped the ball with the

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Adam Tinworth
exeter

Flickr, data and the historic built environment Members Public

What happens if you mix the geo-data embedded in photos with some data about where our listed buildings are in London? This: > Higher graded buildings were more likely to have photographs taken near them: 88% of Grade Is had at least one photograph falling within 25m of their centre

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
APIs

10 Flickring Years Members Public

Flickr is a decade old [http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/02/10/happy-10th-birthday-flickr/]: > Together we have defined online photo sharing. Currently, there are nearly 2 million groups sharing 1 million photos every day. We were the first significant online community where you could store, organize, tag, and share

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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About the new Flickr... Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/new-flickr-whatevr.jpg] So, I wrote a long thing about the new Flickr [http://nextberlin.eu/2013/05/revamping-flickr-life-after-startup/] elsewhere. The TL;DR version is: * Evidence suggests that the new Flickr is successful * Many old users aren’t used to

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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