Comments on: Flickr To Launch New Geotagging and Places Pages

By: Flickr Releases New Geographical Features « Soft-Hack & Others

Flickr Releases New Geographical Features « Soft-Hack & Others — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:47:58 +0000

[...] popular photo sharing site Flickr will release on Monday the two new geography-related features we reported on a month ago: Flickr Places and a new world [...]

By: Flickr Releases New Geographical Features

Flickr Releases New Geographical Features — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:35:06 +0000

[...] popular photo sharing site Flickr will release on Monday the two new geography-related features we reported on a month ago: Flickr Places and a new world [...]

By: Yahoo FireEagle « ubikcan

Yahoo FireEagle « ubikcan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:18:07 +0000

[...] is perfect for services like Flickr, which still struggle to get users to add lat/long information to photos (With FireEagle, Flickr could just look at the time stamp on photos and note where you [...]

By: Our HyperLocal Future: A Revisit | iamjoshbrown.com

Our HyperLocal Future: A Revisit | iamjoshbrown.com — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:04:44 +0000

[...] Flickr continues in this vein of geotagging by offering Places Pages. [...]

By: links for 2007-10-20 | mad dog in the fog

links for 2007-10-20 | mad dog in the fog — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:43:31 +0000

[...] Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages (tags: flickr geotagging) [...]

By: links for 2007-10-19 | jon bounds

links for 2007-10-19 | jon bounds — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:22:03 +0000

[...] Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages Flickr is launching “Places Pages,” which are dedicated pages that provide users with specific information about places. (tags: geotagging flickr media photography photos tags web) [...]

By: reyonthehill

reyonthehill — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:14:42 +0000

Enough with the maps and gadgets, when will video be ready? And what will be the drawbacks? (Resolution, maximum size, etc.)

By: sputnick

sputnick — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:07:57 +0000

Awesome!!! I was wondering why Flickr hadn’t bothered to capitalize on the massive resource all the pics represent. Now they’ve done it. This represents imminent genocide for a whole generation of existing travel sites.

By: file2fone

file2fone — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:50:34 +0000

Flickr is all time my favorite, it will be big plus to get the feature of video into the service.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:09:20 +0000

I really, really hope you’re wrong about the video.

This looks like a great new feature though.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:22:19 +0000

I love Flickr, but man has Yahoo! throttled back the development.

@David: Flickr does have unlimited storage for a Pro user.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:45:01 +0000

Cute!
Use terraserver PictPicker – better!

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By: Shafqat Islam

Shafqat Islam — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:28:51 +0000

On a side note, I love how Flickr is able to put out an announcement only to announce that they will have an announcement later today. Fascinating.

By: StockPhotoTalk | Special Interest Blog

StockPhotoTalk | Special Interest Blog — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:52:03 +0000

QuickLinks For 2007-10-19…

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By: David

David — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:57:04 +0000

Yahoo! Mail has free unlimited storage, Flickr doesn’t at this time.

It would be really neat to have those be congruent.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:28:23 +0000

August you’re a fool. Flickr founders were quoted as saying that when the acquisition was happening Flickr was struggling to break even, they needed the money to keep their heads above water. Try turning down $30 million the next time someone offers it to you. Better yet, turn it down and tell them that you’re holding out for $100 million within a year or so, see what they say.

Startup founders can sell their companies for whatever they want; something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Yahoo! was willing to pay $30 million and who are you to say that “it was far too low” or “they should have held out” when you have the benefit of over two years of 20/20 hindsight.

When opportunity knocks you don’t stick your middle finger up, you answer the door. Jason Calacanis learned this lesson when he turned down a buyout for his company before he launched Weblogs, Inc., if it’s a reasonable offer and you’re happy then take the win and do something else with your time.

By: John Stoltenborg

John Stoltenborg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:16:09 +0000

Imagine millions of pictures a day being uploaded with included geotag information, and then being taken by a program like Photosynth and being turned into a constantly updated massive 3d model. One step better, you can travel back in time and look at popular buildings or places in 3d six weeks ago or 6 hours ago.

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:36:08 +0000

Techcrunch profiled greesy for cross site chat earlier.Stumbled across a stress reliever site using the same! http://www.trystruth.com/ Would this trigger interactive stress relieving sites?

By: August

August — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:00:40 +0000

KEEP YOUR WEB 2.0 STARTUPS DOORS CLOSE…
NO MORE GOOGLE, YAHOO, MICROSOFT ACQUISTIONS…

KEEP THE CONTRACTS OUT.

By: August

August — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:57:09 +0000

Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield should’ve keep Flickr. It’s totally sell out.

I remember Google brought dodgeball. Dodgeball founder quits. They should’ve keep the company.

Youtube founder they should’ve keep the company. Google stock jump 600 a share.

I like Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, He refuse to sell it… I think Web 2.0 entrepenurer should do the same. Stop selling yourself!!!

ADVICE FOR STARTUPS:

STOP SELLING YOUR GOOD COMPANY. KEEP YOUR DAMN COMPANY ALIVE. WE DON’T CARE IF YOU MAKE LESS MONEY!!! BIG COMPANIES MAKE LOT MONEY FROM STOCK OWNERSHIP. STOP SELLING YOURSELF LIKE FLICKR. FLICKR APPLICATION LOOKS COOL. THEY CAN’T GET IT BACK!!!

By: Axel

Axel — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:51:35 +0000

Interface has a lot to do with it, but often times it’s the data (and the quality of the data) that one has to work with that makes it awesome. Flickr users uploading, tagging, commenting and interacting is what makes it. There’s real, passionate, effective community on Flickr.

By: The Hater

The Hater — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:15:37 +0000

@6: What’s pitiful is your spelling.

By: Jessica Mah

Jessica Mah — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:10:23 +0000

Wow I love my $25 unlimited Flickr account.
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$30M buyout? That’s just pityful … this thing is just too amazing!

By: My Ghillie » Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages

My Ghillie » Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:01:18 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptWhen I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited integration of video into the service. [...]

By: yongfook

yongfook — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:49:09 +0000

Just to second the sentiment, we talk about how certain companies with crazy amounts of investment aren’t worth the money etc or we snort with jealousy every time a “company” started by some teenage kid and dreamweaver gets bought out for $XX million, but in Flickr’s case I really see the value. They have a great high-quality product, millions of loyal fans, and a ton of excellent content.

$30 million was certainly a very economical price tag.