Monday, January 31, 2011

Facebook Flickr eat ground

Flickr, the great portal dedicated to sharing photos, you have serious competition from social networks that can do the same and, more particularly, that of Facebook. Although Flickr is very popular, the number of unique visitors (in December) in the United States had fallen by 16% in one year, leaving the figure at 21.3 million, according to comScore, while the area to share photos of Facebook grew 92% to 123.9 million users.

The New York Times analyzes the competition from Flickr in a context of fear that the current owner, Yahoo, may flow from it. In principle, when Yahoo announced the reduction of excluded services that had the intention to withdraw from Flickr. Flickr was founded in 2004 by a pair of United States the following year sold it to Yahoo for $ 35 million after a remarkable growth.

The novelty was not in the tank photos if not in its structure that is closer to a network. The site won the appreciation of the photographers and, in general, Internet users who wanted to expose their images. The emergence of Facebook has not diminished the fidelity of the first with Flickr but it's the latter.

Facebook offers unlimited storage and improving the tools for facial recognition and tagging of photos to help share the task. The big advantage of Facebook is that its members visit daily and this ritual helps to put your photos there instead of going to another website but it, like Flickr, accept the registration system of Facebook and Google.

Flickr is home to around five billion pictures and videos (no more than 90 seconds). Three million are added every day. Flickr lets you display two videos and 300 free MB in photos every month. For more storage to be paid an annual fee of $ 25.

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