Quite the day for Yahoo - first of acquisition of Tumblr and now a rather beautiful refresh of Flickr.
In acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo has snagged one of the most impressive tech minds in social media.
For one thing the Tumblr acquisition suddenly makes sense - Flickr can be Tumblr's Instagram, the way Instragram is to facebook. So it's synergistic for both brands. Giving them also, a more viable competitor to all the new photo features just added to Google+.
Mayer seems like a pretty clever cookie so far, and I don't expect Tumblr to get Yahoo-ized. The four year deal with the founder should help ensure that. However it makes eminent sense to provide cross-connections between a mature photo site that stores a TB of full res shots and a slick-looking "upscale" social network.
And as for remark about "Yahoo Insider," worth bringing the story up as Yahoo's not a bad ally for Apple at this point. And MS and Yahoo work well together, while MS makes good money from Office.
Google is the biggest common current competitor they face, making at least a tacit alliance in various areas for the time-being helpful to all.
Like the direction of Yahoo right now, and they seem much better at playing with others than Google. Flickr looks well on the road to a great recovery, and can see some good synergies with Tumblr emerging. Do wonder how they're going to monetise this great stuff though.
Apple could do a lot worse than reach out for partnership to deliver some optimised web services, Yahoo has talent and seems able to put it to work in ways that Apple seems to struggle with.
i usually stop reading ai "articles" and "reviews" i might click on upon encountering the first error in the piece, whatever it might be.
Which only proves that you are an idiot.
The presence of errors (much less of "any error, whatever it might be") doesn't mean an article isn't worth it. It just means the author is human. (As if you never err in what you write or say, you pompous prick).
Now, if the whole viewpoint and premise of an article is wrong, that's another thing.
But the insistence of some people full of self-importance to inform others in comment threads that they "stopped reading" the article at point X or when they found an error, is both useless and idiotic.
And if Apple buys them all apps get prefixed with ir. ????
Oh, and Aperture as well.
Aperture needs a quick update so it can upload full sized. The option for higher resolution is grey out for me on the Flickr upload dialog in Aperture. Is it same for you?
Like the direction of Yahoo right now, and they seem much better at playing with others than Google. Flickr looks well on the road to a great recovery, and can see some good synergies with Tumblr emerging. Do wonder how they're going to monetise this great stuff though.
Apple could do a lot worse than reach out for partnership to deliver some optimised web services, Yahoo has talent and seems able to put it to work in ways that Apple seems to struggle with.
I agree 100%. I hope Yahoo beef up their search too, I'd love to quit Google. I am going to start using Flickr now for sure just to give them my support , however insignificant that may be .
Maybe Yahoo can start a Youtube equivalent also next.
Aperture needs a quick update so it can upload full sized. I could be wrong but even setting the mail export to full size it seems to still be downscaling for flickr which makes sense.
I'm not behind Aperrture now, but believe you can set the preview size to 'dont limit' in the prefs, which should result in original JPGs when exporting/emailing.
OT: I hope Apple will allow video's to be added to the Photostream in iOS 7. After they killed EOL'D MM Gallery I had to get something else since Photostream wasn't live yet. So I went with Phanfare, which is... nice, but doesn't quite cut it on the video options.
I'm not behind Aperrture now, but believe you can set the preview size to 'dont limit' in the prefs, which should result in original JPGs when exporting/emailing.
OT: I hope Apple will allow video's to be added to the Photostream in iOS 7. After they killed EOL'D MM Gallery I had to get something else since Photostream wasn't live yet. So I went with Phanfare, which is... nice, but doesn't quite cut it on the video options.
Yeah, "Photostream. Now for video, too."
I tried that, the option is greyed out for Flickr upload in the export dialog for me even with full size in export for mail.
I agree video output is way behind the curve in both iOS and OS X at the moment. Youtube is still the best option sadly, Apple need their own equivalent or at least partner with Yahoo on this.
I agree 100%. I hope Yahoo beef up their search too, I'd love to quit Google. I am going to start using Flickr now for sure just to give them my support , however insignificant that may be .
Maybe Yahoo can start a Youtube equivalent also next.
Yahoo should just do what M$ did for Bing, steal Google's search results...
One might ask what the point of dressing up Flickr is when they still don't have an iPad app for it and the iPhone app is so dated and has such minimal functionality as to be a joke.
People don't sit down at their desktops and connect their SLR's with USB cables anymore so they can "upload pictures to the Internet thingie." They want to send a picture from the camera to their account. Automatically if possible.
I have a flickr account but it's a total pain to use since it doesn't integrate with iOS at all. I also can't "share" any pictures from OS X to Flickr either.
Without device integration how pretty the website is doesn't matter at all.
I agree a USB cable would be a joke and I can only speak for myself here but I always stick the card from my Canons directly in my Mac. with 32 or 64 GIGs cards and of hundreds of RAW images to off load to Aperture every week I have no other option. Then from there I decide what to upload to where if anything. The nice thing about using an Application such as Aperture is the way the uploaded sets can be modified and updated without even going to Flickr or FaceBook directly. For those few pictures I take on iOS devices I simply let Photostream load them into Aperture for me and treat them the same way.
One thing I'd like to see soon is an Apple solution to viewing their iOS panoramas in a 3x 2 frame with panning. I can easily create a web page to allow a manual or auto pan showing a 3 x 2 segment but it would be nice to have this as part of the iCloud sharing set up. This would then work on an Apple TV automatically for example when viewing the panos. The current system of showing a small thin ribbon across the screen seems a tad useless.
One might ask what the point of dressing up Flickr is when they still don't have an iPad app for it and the iPhone app is so dated and has such minimal functionality as to be a joke.
People don't sit down at their desktops and connect their SLR's with USB cables anymore so they can "upload pictures to the Internet thingie." They want to send a picture from the camera to their account. Automatically if possible.
I have a flickr account but it's a total pain to use since it doesn't integrate with iOS at all. I also can't "share" any pictures from OS X to Flickr either.
Without device integration how pretty the website is doesn't matter at all.
Hmm, This is precisely what I do... use a USB cable and upload photos from my SLR to the desktop. I would NEVER upload the photos from my crappy iPhone 5 camera (yes it and ALL SmartPhone cameras are still crap) and NEVER upload photos without editing them in the full desktop version of iPhoto or Apiture first. And no, I am not pro photographer or even a serious photo hobbiest.
> And no, I am not pro photographer or even a serious photo hobbiest <
So why so opinionated on what others should do? (I once did make good money selling nature photographs for post-cards, etc.).
The iPhone is the first, second and third most popular 'camera' on Flickr for a reason (apart from being the camera you have in your pocket). Take a look in Flickr: the iPhone takes really good images. Photography is about getting the image, not a camera-tech pissing contest.
I don't understand the new price structure for Flickr at all. It's now more expensive for those who are willing to pay for the site, but there's also less reason to pay. I've been a pro user there for years, but I'll probably switch to a free account since everything I was paying for is now free.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Yahoo! should launch a new service called Misspellr..
Yahoo didn't create either Flickr or Tumblr, so they didn't create either of the trendy misspellings.
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Originally Posted by stelligent
Quite the day for Yahoo - first of acquisition of Tumblr and now a rather beautiful refresh of Flickr.
In acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo has snagged one of the most impressive tech minds in social media.
For one thing the Tumblr acquisition suddenly makes sense - Flickr can be Tumblr's Instagram, the way Instragram is to facebook. So it's synergistic for both brands. Giving them also, a more viable competitor to all the new photo features just added to Google+.
Mayer seems like a pretty clever cookie so far, and I don't expect Tumblr to get Yahoo-ized. The four year deal with the founder should help ensure that. However it makes eminent sense to provide cross-connections between a mature photo site that stores a TB of full res shots and a slick-looking "upscale" social network.
And as for remark about "Yahoo Insider," worth bringing the story up as Yahoo's not a bad ally for Apple at this point. And MS and Yahoo work well together, while MS makes good money from Office.
Google is the biggest common current competitor they face, making at least a tacit alliance in various areas for the time-being helpful to all.
And if Apple buys them all apps get prefixed with ir.
????
Oh, and Aperture as well.
Like the direction of Yahoo right now, and they seem much better at playing with others than Google. Flickr looks well on the road to a great recovery, and can see some good synergies with Tumblr emerging. Do wonder how they're going to monetise this great stuff though.
Apple could do a lot worse than reach out for partnership to deliver some optimised web services, Yahoo has talent and seems able to put it to work in ways that Apple seems to struggle with.
Which only proves that you are an idiot.
The presence of errors (much less of "any error, whatever it might be") doesn't mean an article isn't worth it. It just means the author is human. (As if you never err in what you write or say, you pompous prick).
Now, if the whole viewpoint and premise of an article is wrong, that's another thing.
But the insistence of some people full of self-importance to inform others in comment threads that they "stopped reading" the article at point X or when they found an error, is both useless and idiotic.
Aperture needs a quick update so it can upload full sized. The option for higher resolution is grey out for me on the Flickr upload dialog in Aperture. Is it same for you?
I agree 100%. I hope Yahoo beef up their search too, I'd love to quit Google. I am going to start using Flickr now for sure just to give them my support , however insignificant that may be
Maybe Yahoo can start a Youtube equivalent also next.
I'm not behind Aperrture now, but believe you can set the preview size to 'dont limit' in the prefs, which should result in original JPGs when exporting/emailing.
OT: I hope Apple will allow video's to be added to the Photostream in iOS 7. After they
killedEOL'D MM Gallery I had to get something else since Photostream wasn't live yet. So I went with Phanfare, which is... nice, but doesn't quite cut it on the video options.Yeah, "Photostream. Now for video, too."
I tried that, the option is greyed out for Flickr upload in the export dialog for me even with full size in export for mail.
I agree video output is way behind the curve in both iOS and OS X at the moment. Youtube is still the best option sadly, Apple need their own equivalent or at least partner with Yahoo on this.
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Originally Posted by Gazoobee
People don't sit down at their desktops and connect their SLR's with USB cables anymore so they can "upload pictures to the Internet thingie." .
Except every person with an SLR that I know...
I shoot RAW, I don't upload anything without PP first. Everyone else with an SLR that I know is older than dirt.
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Originally Posted by digitalclips
I agree 100%. I hope Yahoo beef up their search too, I'd love to quit Google. I am going to start using Flickr now for sure just to give them my support , however insignificant that may be
Maybe Yahoo can start a Youtube equivalent also next.
Yahoo should just do what M$ did for Bing, steal Google's search results...
I agree a USB cable would be a joke and I can only speak for myself here but I always stick the card from my Canons directly in my Mac. with 32 or 64 GIGs cards and of hundreds of RAW images to off load to Aperture every week I have no other option. Then from there I decide what to upload to where if anything. The nice thing about using an Application such as Aperture is the way the uploaded sets can be modified and updated without even going to Flickr or FaceBook directly. For those few pictures I take on iOS devices I simply let Photostream load them into Aperture for me and treat them the same way.
One thing I'd like to see soon is an Apple solution to viewing their iOS panoramas in a 3x 2 frame with panning. I can easily create a web page to allow a manual or auto pan showing a 3 x 2 segment but it would be nice to have this as part of the iCloud sharing set up. This would then work on an Apple TV automatically for example when viewing the panos. The current system of showing a small thin ribbon across the screen seems a tad useless.
Seems fair ... search the search ...
Originally Posted by ankleskater
Condescending much?
Yeah… that was his point… ????
Originally Posted by dalutulak
Let's bash every tech company besides Apple! You ready? GO!!!
Uh, what?
Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret
Coming to Yahoo, with Flickr and now Tumblr, could it be that Yahoo will be the company that suffixes all its services with an 'r'?
Maybe they're just trying to appeal to the way British people pronounce words that end with the letter 'A'.
One might ask what the point of dressing up Flickr is when they still don't have an iPad app for it and the iPhone app is so dated and has such minimal functionality as to be a joke.
People don't sit down at their desktops and connect their SLR's with USB cables anymore so they can "upload pictures to the Internet thingie." They want to send a picture from the camera to their account. Automatically if possible.
I have a flickr account but it's a total pain to use since it doesn't integrate with iOS at all. I also can't "share" any pictures from OS X to Flickr either.
Without device integration how pretty the website is doesn't matter at all.
Hmm, This is precisely what I do... use a USB cable and upload photos from my SLR to the desktop. I would NEVER upload the photos from my crappy iPhone 5 camera (yes it and ALL SmartPhone cameras are still crap) and NEVER upload photos without editing them in the full desktop version of iPhoto or Apiture first. And no, I am not pro photographer or even a serious photo hobbiest.Is Flickr still stripping EXIF/IPTC data from resized images?
> And no, I am not pro photographer or even a serious photo hobbiest <
So why so opinionated on what others should do? (I once did make good money selling nature photographs for post-cards, etc.).
The iPhone is the first, second and third most popular 'camera' on Flickr for a reason (apart from being the camera you have in your pocket). Take a look in Flickr: the iPhone takes really good images. Photography is about getting the image, not a camera-tech pissing contest.
Tech companies or ad companies?
I don't understand the new price structure for Flickr at all. It's now more expensive for those who are willing to pay for the site, but there's also less reason to pay. I've been a pro user there for years, but I'll probably switch to a free account since everything I was paying for is now free.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Yahoo! should launch a new service called Misspellr..
Yahoo didn't create either Flickr or Tumblr, so they didn't create either of the trendy misspellings.
Was Flickr the first of the invisible-e sites? Genuine question, I've no idea.