If you haven't heard, yesterday Yahoo made some
major changes to
Flickr, the photo and video sharing site they acquired back in 2005. The change that is getting the most news is free accounts on Flickr now give you 1 Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of space to store your photos and videos. They are doing away with the "pro" account at $25/year and now have three tiers. Here are more specs from the flickr FAQs on the tiers:
Free:
- 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage
- Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo
- Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each
- Video playback of up to 3 minutes each
- Upload and download in full original quality
Ad Free:
- $49.99 per year
- All the benefits of a free account
- No ads in your browsing experience
Doublr:
- $499.99 per year
- 2 Terabytes of photo and video space
- All the benefits of a free account
I am very interested by the upload and download in "full original quality" statement. I can't think of another free service that lets you do that for photos and video. They also did a big re-design of the site. It looks like Google+ mixed with Tumblr now. An individual photo's EXIF data is a little harder to find, but there seems to be more of it once you do find it. To get the EXIF data, just append "meta" to the end of the url for an individual photo like this:
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2ghouls/6922735110/
EXIF data:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2ghouls/6922735110/meta
Also, the
advanced search is still there for now, but also hard to find.
Will you use the new flickr?
Looking at it last night, the new interface looks much nicer, emphasizing the images over the navigational controls.
ReplyDeleteThe increased free storage answers a need that I've felt. The free storage capacity offered previously wasn't sufficient for more than a dozen photo safaris. I know that I'll be using it for the foreseeable future.