Flickr News

Google Takes Picnik Away From Yahoo!

2nd March 2010

Google announced yesterday that they have acquired the photo editing site Picnik right from under Yahoo!’s nose, while Yahoo! seems to have done nothing about it! More »

Four Billion Photos On Flickr

14th October 2009

Yahoo!’s popular photo sharing site Flickr continues to grow in popularity, leaving Google Picasa far behind. Only last Saturday, the 12th of October 2009, one of Flickr’s users posted the 4 billionth photo on the site. More »

Social Web Dominated By Women

7th October 2009

Women, today, seem to be taking the lead over men in a lot of technical. Only recently it was found that working moms are the real power users of mobile phones.

The latest statistics, collected by Brian Solis of Google Ad Planner, and published on Information is Beautiful, show that women also dominate the social web. More »

Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News

28th November 2008

Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts. More »

Flickr To Get Video – Soon

19th March 2008

Yahoo!, the parent company of Flickr has been promising for ages that they will add video on Flickr. Now it seems like they are serious about their promise and it could be a matter of just a few weeks before this actually happens. Flickr video could be launched as early as April 2008. More »

Yahoo! Plays Catch Up On Social Networks And Mobile

10th January 2008

Google’s done it, Facebook’s done it, even Nokia did it so why wouldn’t Yahoo!? Well, now they have come up with yet another social networking idea, this time dubbed Yahoo! Life! and an improved mobile service. Where has the innovation, the spark of ingenuity that once was Yahoo! gone? More »

Flickr Launches New Map Applications

19th November 2007

Photo sharing site Flickr is launching an improved mapping application this week. Flickr Maps allows users to associate their images with a specific location on the map. More »

Yahoo! Photos Moves To Flickr On October 18th

14th September 2007

Yahoo! Photos is now formally scheduled to close on the 18th of October 2007. All users are being emailed to migrate their accounts to Flickr or download the photographs to a local hard drive for storage or to upload to some other service. More »