The photo sharing site owned by Yahoo unveiled a trio of new features just in time for the holidays so people can take advantage of them when receiving new cameras as gifts.
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield posted news of a triple treat of features debuting on the site.
One feature permits much easier sharing of private photos with non-Flickr users. Butterfied wrote that a Flickr user can share a set of photos with up to fifty email recipients by providing them with a "guest pass" to access the images.
The Flickr user has control of the secret link provided by the guest pass invitation, so if he or she wishes to expire it, they can do so whenever they like. "We're especially happy about this one since it's the second most requested feature of all time (and work has already begun on the number one most requsted feature - we'll eventually get 'em all)," he said.
Flickr has resurrected its "long-dormant and seemingly left-for-dead mobile site" at m.flickr.com. Those who wish to use it will need a Yahoo ID, however, since the revamped features depend on access to some Yahoo services with a valid login.
The change from Flickr to Yahoo logins was a point of contention after Yahoo acquired the site and decided to make people set up a Yahoo ID. However, Butterfield claimed the vast majority of Flickr users now have Yahoo IDs, so making that a requirement for Flickr Mobile did not seem like a stretch.
People who want to get an idea of how a particular camera performs in the hands of skilled photographers can search Flickr by camera make and model. Looking up a camera like the one I have shows how many photos uploaded in the past day were identified as coming from that model.
They also note a price range for the model as found in Yahoo Shopping, along with reviews for the camera. Flickr also provides a graph of usage of the camera model, and a selection of Interesting Photos shot with that model by Flickr users.
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