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Flickr Launches Photo Session and the Flickr Android App
IT News Online Staff
2011-10-05
Flickr, the photo-sharing site from Yahoo!, has announced two new product features, Photo Session and the Flickr Android App. These features make uploading, discovering and sharing photos more interactive, allowing community members to engage with friends and family on their favorite device (mobile or PC).
Photo Session from Flickr is a new interactive way to share Flickr photostreams and sets with small groups of friends and family, so one can browse photos and chat together in real-time, on a computer, iPhone, or iPad. Created during the last Yahoo! Hack Day, Yahoo! said the release of Photo Session from Flickr underscores its passion and commitment to continued photo-sharing innovation and product support for Flickr.
Starting a Photo Session is as easy as sending a link to a friend or family member, who can then access the photos via their computer, iPhone or iPad from any location. With Photo Session, users can share their photos with up to ten people at a time simultaneously, engage in conversations through an embedded chat feature, and even make notes on photos using the drawing tool.
Photo Session Use Case Examples:
- Just got back from your African safari? Invite your friends to a photo session and inspire wanderlust in one and all.
- Planning a wedding? Create a Flickr set filled with wedding ideas and show them to your BFF’s to help you pick the perfect dress.
- It’s a girl! Congrats! The whole family is dying to meet her. Set up a photo session to show off the latest pics of your newest member of the family and fill them in on every coo and gurgle.
- Doing a kitchen remodel? Document the process in a Flickr set. Then, share the tears and triumphs with your remodel-loving friends via Photo Session.
The new Flickr Android App, the photo-sharing site’s first native application for Android devices, provides people with a simple way to capture and share beautiful, high-quality photos on the go.
The Flickr App for Android with Camera: Snap pictures directly from the app with the innovative shoot and share camera. Users can transform their images into artistic snapshots by picking from 10 high-quality filters. Easily share photos across social networks and keep up with all of the social activity and conversations around the images.
Instant Access to the Photos They Love: People have instant access to all of their photos, sets, favorites and profile information. Whether a user has 20 photos or 20,000, they can scroll through all of them by swiping across the screen and touch the image to view it in full screen, slideshow mode.
Trusted Photo Experience Regardless of Where You Are: Flickr takes user privacy and ownership rights into account when building any product. The app’s download feature enables people to manage the privacy settings around who can download their images and offers tool for them to flag certain images.
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