Okay, so maybe this whole brouhaha about Flickr being purchased by Yahoo wasn’t such a bad thing after all. They’ve been on a pretty good roll recently, as evidenced by their news page (which I’m quoting liberally from here, as they don’t seem to have permalinks)…
10th May, 2005
Remember the 5MB limit per photo for your uploads? That was the olden days! Now pro account users can upload photos of up to 10MB each (while, perhaps, cursing their ISP for the slow upload connection – in this age of the two web, why the asynchronousness, o ISPs?)
11th May, 2005
IPTC support (finally)! Friends, today there’s another good thing in Flickrland, and that’s support for IPTC data embedded into your photos. Keywords become tags! Captions become descriptions! Marvel as one framework’s terminology is swapped for another! Smile as the location fields in IPTC become Flickr tags!
12th May, 2005
We’ll we’ve gone and done it. In answer to countless requests, photo pages no longer use a Macromedia Flash wrapper to display photos; instead we are using an old technology called “DHTML.”
In addition, the “Send to Group,” “Add to Set,” and “Blog This” buttons above photos now allow you to perform relevant actions right there on the page!
And also, links now work in notes! (And we’ll soon be adding some more cool auto-linking features when the links point to Flickr pages.)
Also rolled into this release are a whole lot of little tweaks and fixes that should make your photo page viewing more enjoyable all around.
Pretty nifty! Poking around with it, I like the changes they’ve made (especially being able to put links within notes), and there have been hints dropped that there might be more goodies coming up. Bring ’em on!
“If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love” by Rasputina from the album Frustration Plantation (2004, 3:07).