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Flickr Gets A Makeover — It’s Been Supersized And Instagrammed
May 20th
It wasn’t that long ago that Yahoo stood accused of letting Flickr decay beyond repair.
Today, under the guidance of new CEO Marissa Mayer, the company has given the oft maligned image-sharing community a major facelift. Yahoo’s announcement promises a Flickr that’s “more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere.”
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the grid. Here’s what’s new on your Flickr account:
Room To Grow
As recently as yesterday, free Flickr users could upload and display 200 images at a time. Now every user has one terabyte of storage space. For those of you playing along at home, that’s enough for roughly 200,000 photos. Or as the Flickr staff puts it even more dramatically, “you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one.”
Following Flickr’s consistently freemium model, you can get even more perks by going pro. Fifty dollars will remove all advertisements. And for the serious professional, $499.99 will double your storage space to two terabytes per year. Or, you know, more than 400,000 photos.
If you already had an original Flickr Pro account, priced at $24.95, you’re getting a heck of a deal. Yahoo has upgraded you to the $49.99 option until August 2013, free of charge. Pro user Aaron Brazell sent us a screenshot of his pro account, pictured below:
Introducing The Grid
The most instantly noticeable change is an aesthetic one. Your photos have enlarged themselves to jaw dropping size and now dominate the screen. Taking a cue from Instagram, your home page is now an infinite scroll through your contacts’ recent photos.
Your profile page has also gone the way of Pinterest and Windows 8, filling the page with a grid of images. Just like Facebook and Twitter, your profile page includes a background photo to offset your profile picture.
I found that Flickr had already put one of my Favorites as my background image, a photo I didn’t even take myself. As it’s not credited, I certainly hope the photographer doesn’t take issue.
Wait, What’s Going On?
A lot here has changed and Flickr power users are still trying to figure out what’s new. Flickr’s most active discussion forum, Flickr Central, is abuzz with comments about the change. Given that these are the people that continued to daily use Flickr even as the rest of the Internet complained it was dead, it’s no surprise they’re unhappy with the change.
“I signed on Flickr to post a story about Yahoo vowing not to screw up Tumblr … and then I see the clusterfuck that is the new homepage,” one user wrote.
Meanwhile, confusion abounds at Flickr’s official Help Forum. I’d be amazed if the staff can answer all 1,100 plus questions that were added in the last hour. It looks like Yahoo might want to update Flickr’s FAQ guidelines, which still link to old news like the ability to pay $24.95 for a pro subscription.
If you’re confused, don’t add to the backlog. I have reached out to Yahoo for details on when the new FAQ will be up and will update when we know more.
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Enterprise Software Makeover: 4 Things To Borrow From Consumer Apps
Mar 28th
Guest author Jyoti Bansal is the founder of AppDynamics.
Long undervalued, Enterprise software businesses are now enjoying their day in the sun. On Wall Street, enterprise is the new sexy – but how did they manage to wrestle the spotlight from the consumers apps everyone was talking about not so long ago?
A key reason is that savvy enterprise software companies are taking what’s great about consumer software and using it to solve big problems that big companies will pay big money to eliminate.
The hyper-competitive consumer market forced technology companies to create usable and intuitive products that don’t require weeks of training and costly consultants to operate. The best enterprise companies are realizing they have to measure up to that new bar to succeed.
But how do notoriously hidebound enterprise software companies do that? These four strategies can help enterprise software companies leverage what consumer software firms have learned the hard way:
1. Hire A Good UI Architect – Now
This might sound obvious, but hiring a top-notch user interface architect should be almost the first thing you do once you hatch a plan for a new enterprise product. Consumer software is built from the top down, which means you’re thinking of how the end user will interact with the software before you even write a line of code. That’s how it should be with enterprise software, too. Get a UI architect to help you decide on the architecture and roadmap of your product so that you don’t run into usability obstacles down the road. And keep the UI team involved every step of the way to help keep feature creep from cluttering up your product.
2. Hand Out A Free Download
People who buy software for enterprises are jaded. They’ve heard a million product pitches, and they’re justifiably skeptical that your product will deliver what you say it will – they’ve been burned before. The best way to convince people that your product can do what you say it does is to *show* them, and to let them find out for themselves. Make a free version of your software available for download from your website. It may cost a little bit in development and support, but it’s worth it for the credibility it delivers.
3. Offer A SaaS Option
Software-as-a-Service has caught on in the enterprise because it makes it easier and cheaper for people to get started using your product. If you don’t offer a SaaS version, you’re losing business. Period.
4. Get Out Of The Way
Consultants and professional services reek of old-school software, and they make your customers feel like you’re taking advantage of them. If your product is easy to use (which it should be if you followed Step 1 above), then you shouldn’t need to send consultants out to help your customers set up your software. Let people try out your software for themselves without bugging them – if they like what they see, they’ll come ask you for more.
Not every company can be Apple or Google – but when it comes to enterprise software, it pays to follow their lead. Legacy enterprise software companies that insist on opaque pricing, hard-to-acquire-and-use software and complicated sales cycles are looking a lot like dinosaurs these days. And they’re not even aware that an asteroid is about to hit them.
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Click Ready Marketing Announces New SEO Make-Over Plans with Mobile – PR Web (press release)
Feb 17th
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Click Ready Marketing Announces New SEO Make-Over Plans with Mobile
PR Web (press release) Click Ready Marketing announces a new low cost SEO Make-Over packages that includes on-site and off-site optimization to give small business a stronger web presence. Also included in this package is a mobile website that has enhanced user friendly … |
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Bing Social Sidebar Gets a Makeover
Dec 11th
Following the new update to Snapshots, Bing cleaned up their social sidebar today. The background has been switched from dark grey to white and the “hover cards” have disappeared – making the whole page look more uniform and less segmented.
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AdSense Text Ads Get Biggest Makeover In Recent Memory
Dec 5th
In a nod to consistency across platforms and the growth in mobile usage, Google has overhauled its AdSense text ads to be more mobile-friendly, adding a large arrow button to each ad that should make it easier for “fat fingers” to click effectively on tablets and mobile phones. The…
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AdWords Remarketing Gets Tag Makeover, New Features
Jul 27th
Google has made some changes to the way advertisers do remarketing on AdWords, and is expanding an ongoing test. The various moves are aimed at making remarketing on AdWords simpler and more effective. The process of putting tags on websites for creating remarketing lists is undergoing a…
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest … – Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Jun 14th
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest …
Virtual-Strategy Magazine QuickSeoResults.com acquires a new website look and feel that boasts major improvements. These highlighted updates make the website more functional for its … The Five Forces of Keyword Competition Look For An SEO Company That Has Bunch Of Services To Offer Skyrocket to the Top with These SEO Tips – 10000 Words |
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest Success – PR Web (press release)
Jun 14th
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest Success
PR Web (press release) This new design and feel perfectly resembles what Quick SEO Results is all about – positive results and ranking improvements. Nothing more, nothing less. QuickSeoResults, the leading Canadian SEO provider, consummates its recent achievements with a new … |
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest Success – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jun 14th
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SEO Provider Undergoes Complete Makeover To Match Latest Success
DigitalJournal.com (press release) QuickSeoResults, the leading Canadian SEO provider, consummates its recent achievements with a new and improved website that showcase a more user-friendly interface, a comprehensive content and reference vault for both existing and potential clients … |
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LIVE SEO Makeover Session: Improving YOUR Website’s Position in the Search Engines – San Jose Mercury News
May 10th
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LIVE SEO Makeover Session: Improving YOUR Website's Position in the Search Engines
San Jose Mercury News At tonight's event, local internet marketing guru and SEO expert Bill Davis will explore best practices in SEO by looking at real live examples of your websites, highlighting what is working and what is not, and making suggestions for improvements. |
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