Flickr Adds People Tagging

Oct 22, 2009 at 9:30am ET by Barry Schwartz

Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, has added Facebook-like people tagging. The purpose behind people tagging is to easily tell people when you upload a picture that includes them. In short, it is a fun way to make your pictures more social and have discussions around your photos. Let me show you how it works. For example, the picture I took of Danny Sullivan with (former Microsoft's) Kevin Johnson at a past SMX conference was a nice photo of Danny to tag. I click on the "add person" link on the right side of the page and begin entering in Danny's name. Since Danny is a contact of [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr

Flickr Now Has An iPhone App

Sep 8, 2009 at 9:41am ET by Barry Schwartz

This morning, TechCrunch reported that Flickr's iPhone app has finally made it to the iTunes Store. It is free and can be downloaded by clicking here. I gave the app a quick go, and I really think it was done exceptionally well. Here is a walk through, screen by screen. The app icon is plain and simple: When you load up the app and past the start screen, images are displayed on the front page. But the images has slow motion to them, as they pane in and out between other images. If you are logged in, you get images from your friends as well. Here is a screen cap of that page: [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr

Yahoo Enhances Flickr Search

Aug 4, 2009 at 4:12pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Just when you think Yahoo is out of the search game, they strut their stuff with an improved Flickr search. Flickr, the popular image service, has revamped the Flickr search page. The changes include: "View" controls to see the image results in small, medium or detailed view or even to see them as a slideshow. "i" icon on small and medium views, when clicked you get more detailed information about a particular photo. Perspective column on right, can show groups, photographers, tag clusters and places. Refinement summary information displayed on the search results. [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: Flickr

Getting Links AND Content From Flickr

Mar 20, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Lisa Barone

You can get more than just links from social media. You can also get really great content. And one of the best places to find free content is on Flickr. There are tons of ways to use Flickr. If you can take a great photo, you can use Flickr to build inbound links and get your photos showing up in places like Consumerist and Epicenter. You can use Flickr's comment area to build links that drive traffic and exposure. However, one of my favorite ways to use the site is to follow a link AND content development strategy. And that's what this article is about helping you learn to do. I'll sta [...]

Filed in: How To: Links, Social Media Marketing, Top News, Yahoo: Flickr

Yahoo Upgrades Flickr Mobile; Google Upgrades Picasa

Dec 4, 2008 at 7:36pm ET by Matt McGee

Photo search took a couple steps forward today with announcements from both Yahoo and Google. The news from Yahoo is a mobile makeover of its Flickr photo sharing site, while Google announced a variety of improvements to its Picasa photo service. Here's a look at the two announcements: Flickr's "Mobile Makeover" With visits to Flickr's mobile site (m.flickr.com) up more than 50% in the past year, the mobile site now shares much of the same features and functionality that Flickr users are familiar with on the main site. The Yahoo announcement trumpets the new video playback capabili [...]

Filed in: Google: Picasa, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr

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