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Flickr’s mobile makeover
Flickr’s mobile makeover
Ask anyone on the street if they have photos in their wallet and you might find a handful. But on their phone? That’s another story. Over the last year, our team at Flickr has seen a more than 50% increase in the number of people who have accessed our mobile site. And it can’t go anywhere but ...
Flickr Videos Now Play on iPhones and iPods
blog.flickr.net — Fantastic news from Flickr: First, the sexy part — you can now view Flickr videos on your... mobile phone! Videos uploaded by members will be immediately viewable through our mobile site, thanks to our friends in the Yahoo! Video Platform ... (more) Flickr Videos Now Play on iPhones and iPods
Show Obsessable your gear
Show Obsessable your gear
obsessable.com — Join our Flickr group and submit shots of your gear to our pool for a chance to... be featured on the site and win a free t-shirt! (more) Show Obsessable your gear
Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs
guardian.co.uk — Thought the Yahoo layoffs were over? Not quite... today it seems that George Oates , a high-profile... member of the Flickr team and one of the site's early employees, was told that she was being given the chop too. She's recently been in Australia, so ... (more) Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs
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Flickr Mobile Gets an Upgrade
Ubergizmo — ... (it was previously in beta). m.flickr.com was updated and users can now play Flickr videos from their phone, thanks to Yahoo! Video infrastructure. A new user interface should make things easier, but the Flickr team also added brand new features like "add contacts, favorite images, and change your privacy and permission settings". Webkit, Firefox Mobile and Opera mini are the browsers that are compatible with the latest and greatest Flickr for mobiles. So... what do you guys think? More details here ...

Flickr pretties up its mobile site, where’s the iPhone app?
VentureBeat — ... But the big news is that this new mobile site can also play Flickr videos. While this functionality is only working right now for the iPhone and iPod touch, it should be coming to the other handsets in the coming weeks, a post on Yahoo’s blog notes. ...

Flicrk Mobile Adds Video Streaming Feature
(Obsolete Feed) — ... With the growing interests on its mobile site, Yahoo’s photo uploading and sharing service Flickr has just rolled out, or should we rather say overhauled its mobile site boasting of new features including video streaming. Yup, Flickr is starting to become more like YouTube folks. You can now play videos you uploaded to the site directly from your mobile phone. ...

Flickr Gives its Mobile Site a Make-Over and Rolls Out Video Streaming Feature
(Obsolete Feed) — ... When Flickr introduced its video uploading feature, many didn’t like it that much. Long-time Flickr users and loyalists thought that it was a desecration of Flickr as a purely photo uploading site. But the fuzz slowly died down and gradually Flickr is establishing itself not only as a photo uploading site by a video-uploading and sharing site as well, very much like YouTube. Anyway, following-up on its video uploading feature, Flickr has also rolled mobile video streaming features to Flickr’s mobile site - m.flickr.com. ...

Flickr Mobile permite ahora ver vídeos en el iPhone
Celularis — ... . Según cuentan, el aumento de accesos desde dispositivos móviles ha sido espectacular en el último año y por eso han decidido dedicar esfuerzos a mejorar la experiencia de esta tipología de usuarios. ...

Flickr Mobile adds iPhone, iPod friendly video streaming feature
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Flickr Revamps Lets Users Watch Videos Via Cell Phones
Gearlog — ... "Now we're expanding the experience to any smartphone that supports browsers like Webkit, Firefox Mobile, and Opera Mobile," according to a Yahoo blog post. ...

Flickr now allows for mobile phone video watching
SlashGear — ... Flickr released a new update today to their mobile website, and apparently users can now access and watch Flickr videos on their mobile phones. Even though Flickr videos were added back in April, it is only just now that you can watch them from your mobile devices. ...

Flickr mobile site updated, now allows video playback
Unwired View — ... That’s right. Users will now be able to play their (or other users’) video on Flickr’s mobile web site, directly from their phones. Currently, the video playback feature is only available for videos uploaded in the last two days, but Yahoo! clarified that they’re working on making it available for all videos, even those uploaded before the update. You can try it out by getting your mobile device and navigating to m.flickr.com. Via Yodel Anecdotal Similar Posts: Flickr with your new Nseries Nokia ...

Flickr mobile supporte désormais les vidéos
w3sh magazine — ... Quoi qu’il en soit, Flickr vient de sortir une mise à jour de son site mobile (m.flickr.com). Vous pouvez désormais visualiser les vidéos sur votre mobile et même uploader des vidéos prises avec votre téléphone. Apparemment, l’iPhone est le seul smartphone supporté pour l’instant, mais d’autres devraient suivre rapidement. ...

Flickr Mobile Makeover [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... It was only two months ago that Flickr unveiled a beta version of their mobile site optimized for iPhone and iPod touch users, but now it’s official. ...

It's Official: Flickr Comes to App Store
ReadWriteWeb — ... . Not to mention the fact that after releasing the iPhone-optimized site, they saw a 50% increase in mobile users year-over-year. In fact, it's not just an "odd" decision - it was a bad one. ...

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