Flickr is launching in seven new languages this morning. In addition to English, the site now supports French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. This comes in response to user demand, says the company - over half of Flickr users live outside of the United States.
Still no word on when Flickr will support video uploads, something Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said would be coming “soon” in early May.
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Great for Flickr users, will more interesting when they will launch the video uploads.
This is good news for flickrs. I think multi-language should be a standard offering for all new web services.
It took them long enough to figure this out!
I’m a heavy user of Flickr. It’s never occured to me that Flickr should have video support.
To me this seems totally unnecessary, not because of existing competition, but because Flickr currently does one thing, and they do it best.
Terrific! Merveilleuse! Mucho Gusto! Wunderbar! Okay, okay, those are the only ones I know.
And from my online translator — maravilhoso!
Congrats to Caterina and Stewart and their whole team!
While this is cool, I feel the most exciting part of this announcement on their blog is the last sentence.
“As part of this launch, Flickr Pro payment processing is now handled by Yahoo! Wallet and supports a myriad of credit card options.”
Thank you, Flickr! We can finally use a way other than that annoying PayPal.
I love Flickr. I’m not surprised to find that half their users are outside of the U.S. - that’s the story with my site too.
Certainly this is consistent with the whole globalization thing. Great concept
http://www.whatshottoday.com
I wonder if they will change their name, if they ever decide to do a dutch version. As ‘flikker’ (which is pronounced as ‘flickr’) is the dutch (slang) word for ‘fag’ (a kind of nasty word for a gay person).
Only time will tell I guess…
the dutch should just roll a fat one and get over it.
are live outside.
you should take some grammar courses.
“Still no word on when Flickr will support video uploads”
note their tagline has changed to “Share your Photos, Watch the World”
@ #4 Pete
>>It’s never occured to me that Flickr should have video support….because Flickr currently does one thing, and they do it best.
But the one thing doesn’t have to be tied to photos. If you ask me, the one thing that Flickr does better than any other website is “make it easy for people to share”…doesn’t have to be a photo - just something that can be discussed online with your friends/family.
John69, you should capitalise first letters in a new sentence.
Cautiously optimistic about Flickr hosting videos too. It would be nice to have one place for all of my pictures and videos, but they still need to make sure that they continue to manage photos really well. They do have a slick UI so it’ll be interesting to see how they tie videos into it.
I’m sure that was a huge project. Not sure how I feel about the video uploading though… Will definitely change the community. It will be very interesting to see how it all comes together.
Ringo has supported English, German, French and Spanish for over a year and video since January. Snore.
I agree - Great for Flickr users, will more interesting when they will launch the video uploads.
Video uploading is a useless feature that I won’t ever use. Multi-lingual support is great, though.
I also like that their “beta” tag changed to “gamma”, and then “loves you”. It’s awesome that they don’t take things too seriously.
Tre bien!
Anyone ever heard of babel fish ?
- can’t these big sites just buy a license from them
- and get this done is 5 days / instead of - 2-5 years?
- RB
- molto bello e figo :), what about delicious and upcoming?.
- Video: flickr jumping the shark?
Hey Mike… what’s up with TechCrunch UK? Is it still up for relaunch and are you still looking for an editor? Just wondering since the job posting no longer exists and there are no updates present.
Interesting and…
I wait for update.
Even better for flickr - time to take over the world ;).
Concrete Stain: Have you ever actually used Babel fish? It’s translations are…quirky…at best.
I’m surprised they’re just doing the multilingual thing now. Flickr has been all about it from the beginning… I get a “hello” language lesson daily on that!
I think you mean “seven additional languages”. None of them are new, in fact most of them have been around for hundreds of years.
What good is that to those of us living in China who can not see our Flickr photos as a result of the Net Nanny blocking our images?
That should be a techcrunch story.
See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281195,00.html
ditto pete forde.
no need for video - if there’s video, then it’s not flickr anymore.
go flickr go!
They did a really fantastic job with translating the UI. Where is the Japanese though? This is such a huge market and this should have been the most important translation for them.
Wow, that’s a little slow. Simpy at http://simpy.com has been available in about 10 languages for a while now, and a few other ones are in the works. Here is the list: http://www.simpy.com/faq#browserLanguage .
when will you report about the CENSORSHIP yahoo and flickr have put on germans, koreans, singapore and hongkong users? start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....ickrthink/
[...I have got the news from Arrington’s Techcrunch.
Which languages has been added?
Besides English, seven other languages which are French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese added...]
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