Tag: flickr
Flickr gets an iPad app
Gone in 60 seconds. How we are now sharing images online within a minute
Remember when you printed out photos to bore your friends and family with at leisure? Well it seems those days are virtually over.One in five of us now take photos purely to share via social media and many of us…
New look Flickr adds 1TB of storage for all users
Flickr has just received a massive redesign, and with the fresh lick of paint for the photo-hosting service also comes the news that all users will now have 1TB of storage space to fill up through the site. The site's…
Dropbox looking to take on Picasa and Flickr with new iOS app photo features?
Cloud storage service Dropbox has updated its iPhone and iPad apps to better cater for photo uploads. A new visual stream of photos is offered with which to browse your snaps, as well as a whole new tab devoted to…
Canon to take on Flickr with Project 1709 cloud image storage service
Canon have announced that they are to launch their own photo-hosting service to rival the likes of Flickr, launching today in a beta mode under the working title of Project 1709. However, rather than take on perhaps the biggest photo-hosting…
Facebook hosts 4% of all the photos EVER TAKEN IN THE WORLD
Here's a pretty mad statistic; according to photo sharing site 1000memories.com, Facebook now host 4% of all the photographs ever taken. EVER. That equates to an estimated 140 billion photos of the 3.5 trillion thought to have been taken since…
Flickr used in Metropolitan Police's Operation Withern London riots investigation
The Metropolitan Police are harnessing the power of social media in order to bring rioters from the past few day's escalating violence to justice. As part of Operation Withern, the Met are posting stills from CCTV footage to a…
Flickr accidentally deletes user with 4,000 pictures in cloud computing horror story
It might just be a website, but for Flickr afficinados it's the ultimate betrayal. Users of the popular picture sharing site tend to be a bit, shall we say, passionate about their favourite web destination. The thought of it…
Stop Drunken Updates With The Social Media Sobriety Test
We have all come home from a big night out and started drunkenly tweeting or updating Facebook, only to regret it in the morning. In an effort to put an end to those late night bouts of drunken social…
Yahoo! launch Yahoo! Mail Beta
Today Yahoo! launch Yahoo! Mail Beta. What they say is a faster, easier, safer, and more social communications experience than their current mail system. As of today you can choose to opt-in to Yahoo! Mail Beta. However, what exactly the…
