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Flickr Pro Resurrects, Google+ Photos Is Murdered, & 500px Collects Millions
Your photographic resume is likely your online photo presence. So which service should you use to showcase?
Yahoo Finally Unveils New Flickr for iPad App
Yahoo’s continued quest to bring Flickr back to the forefront of online photo sharing may be a losing battle, but you can’t fault the company for trying. Their latest attempt at improving the photo networks profile is a new iOS app version specifically for iPad.
Photographer Gets Help From Some Tiny Hummingbirds to Fuel His Career
Michael Schmidt is a budding photographer who was struggling to make a decision between the photo path he loved, and one that would pay the bills. With perseverance, a little luck, and even littler birds, he is paving his way to satisfy both.
The Breakup: Getty and Flickr To End Licensing Partnership
Back in 2009, Flickr and Getty got together for a groundbreaking partnership which allowed Flickr users to license their images through Getty, and hopefully make some money doing so. Everything was great, until yesterday that is.
Google: A Photographer’s Friend? Image Licensing Proves Not Really
While Google adds ‘Usage Rights’ to their search field, it still doesn’t bode well for photographers. How do we get around this?
Flickr Changes Continue as Company Redesigns Photo Pages
After going years and years without making a meaningful change to Flickr it has become apparent that Yahoo has done almost a complete 180. Earlier this year Yahoo completely redesigned and overhauled most of the popular photo sharing service, and now not even a year later we have some more changes coming down the pipe.
Redesign Worked, Flickr Usage On The Rise
It has been almost 3 months since the Flickr redesign and the effects of that investment by Yahoo are already being seen. While many long time users pushed back against the “new Flickr” the gamble appears to have worked in Yahoo’s favor, traffic and usage are up across the board, and they are only rising.
Yahoo Acquires IQ Engines to Improve Flickr
Yahoo has been on a major shopping spree since Marissa Mayer took the helm over there. They are buying small start-ups left and right trying to build a better portfolio to better compete with the likes of Google. The latest of those acquisitions is image recognition company IQ Engines, who was purchased and is in the process of being integrated into the Flickr team.
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