The New Flickr, What it means for Pro Users

The New Flickr, What it means for Pro Users

Yahoo unveiled a brand new Flickr experience for its desktop and Android users on Monday. The new design is unrecognizable from the old one. It’s a mixture between Facebook and Google+ to say the least.

It sure is pretty, with lots of high-resolution, rectangular photos and a clean, grid design. The company is also offering everyone on the site a free terabyte of space to store their photos. That’s potentially enough to stores hundreds of thousands of photos.

First, for people browsing a social Web site like Flickr, a follower count can be a quick signal to help someone understand if a person is worth following. It’s almost a quantified look at the so-called wisdom of crowds.