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Back to Flickr

/ Cole Camplese / 7 Comments

Now that a big group of people I know have been energized by the resurgence of Flickr I am noticing something. Flickr was built well before the rise if the more “modern” social sites and lacks at least a few of the features that we’ve all come to expect. The one most glaring omission is the lack of a “like” button. Flickr asks us to not like a photo, but instead mark it as a favorite. I never really used that much, reserving it for truly favorite photos. It seemed like that was the case for a lot people. Now that we’ve bounced back to Flickr I am getting “favs” all the time. It seems to me that the feature sets of Instagram and Facebook has altered the way we use an older platform. It has made Flickr much more social and I like that.

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From the Instagram Blog … We are Listening

/ Cole Camplese / 1 Comment

I see this kind of language quite a bit in contracts and licenses I look at before passing it along to our legal team here at the university … essentially a company wants you to grant them the right to display your content on their site to avoid a copyright violation claim. In this instance, I am not sure that is the case, but I doubt Instagram is trying to steal and sell your photos. I do think it is worth watching for a week or so as people react and Instagram does some more explaining. For now I am going to post photos to flickr again … at least until I can figure out what is going on. The fact that Kevin Systrom (Instagram co-founder) is posting a note trying to explain what is going on and what they really mean is encouraging; but it still gives me renewed pause as I wrap my head around what we exchange for a free service instead of money.

Advertising on Instagram … From the start, Instagram was created to become a business. Advertising is one of many ways that Instagram can become a self-sustaining business, but not the only one. Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we’d like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram. Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear.

via Thank you, and we’re listening – Instagram Blog.