Back in mid-March this year, we wrote about a rumor that Flickr Video would be here sometime in April. Well, it's April and as it turns out, the rumor was true. Flickr Video has finally launched. It launched yesterday, and so far it's received some mixed reviews from people disappointed about some of the limitations that have been put in place for the new service.

The first limitation is simply the fact that it's

Over the last four years since Flickr launched, they've really made a name for themselves and have become one of the most popular places for people to go to share photos. They've got a great community of users who regularly upload, tag, and favorite photos. Many of those community members, who over the years have contributed to the over two billion photos

First Flickr teamed up with Picnik to offer a built-in photo editing service and now Photobucket, one of the most popular image-hosting sites out there has teamed up with FotoFlexer. Both Picnik and FotoFlexer are great services and allow for convenient and easy editing of photos online. Here's what Photobucket users will be able to do with the help of FotoFlexer tools:

• Resize
• Rotate
• Auto-fix
• Red-eye removal
• Crop
• Add text
• and more...

There are so many reasons that people use Flickr whether it's for business, personal, or marketing purposes.  A recent blog entry over at Flickr points out how some members of Flickr are using it for something a little different than others and that is "to shine a light of social or global issues." For this reason, Flickr has created a new site called Flickr for Good.  It's a place where information can be

After Microsoft announced that they were hoping to acquire Yahoo, there was obviously all kinds of talk around the web.  Yahoo fans expressed both pleasure and mostly dis-pleasure at the thought of Yahoo being taken over by Microsoft. Shortly after the announcement, a new group formed over at Yahoo owned photo service, Flickr.  The group is called "Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Our Flickr" and it now has over 2,760 members and

Tutorial Thursday

For those of you who read the site regularly, you probably know by now that I have a Flickr Pro account. It's just $25 per year, and offers unlimited photo storage and bandwidth. When I was looking around to find the perfect photo sharing site for my family and myself, Flickr was the one option that stood out to me.

The thing that convinced me to get a Flickr Pro

Existing Flickr Pro Account holders as well as those of you considering purchasing one, listen up: Flickr has a deal going on for the month of January where you'll get three free months! It's not a bad deal at all, but you'll have to act soon, and it does work a little differently than what you might expect.

Here's what you'll do:

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