Updated Flickr app available for iOS

Flickr 3.2 consists of optimized existing features and some new features for iOS users. Users will be able to browse for photos in their feed in a better way. The look too has been improved with high resolution and full camera interface. The editing suite now includes many more features making shooting and editing images a whole new wonderful experience. An additional sharing extension for iOS 8 has been included which allows iPhone and iPad users to share their photos via Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. The optimizations let the app make full use of the iPad’s larger screen. At the same time it promises to deliver wonderful design, versatility and powerful camera features. the new Flickr 3.2 can now push up to 3,000,000 pixels in a photo. Isn’t that awesome? It allows you to record HD videos and use live filters. Yahoo acquired it in 2005 which led to users getting 1TB of storage for free. The site was launched in 2004 by Ludicorp as a place where people who love photography can come together, share and embed photos.

The website is even used by bloggers and photo researchers for hosting images that they can share on their feed. According to reports from The Verge, around 87 million people use Flickr and daily around 3.5 million images are uploaded. One can access photos and videos without an account but for uploading content to Flickr you need to have an account. You also get the facility to add other Flickr users as your contacts. Flickr app is available for platforms including windows OS, windows Phone, iOS, android and PlayStation Vita. The uploaded images are stored in your photostream which can be viewed as a slideshow, detailed view, date stamped view or justified view. You can view any image in interactive photopage by clicking on it. It also shows comments, embedding link and other related data. The uploader or the other users can tag the photos if permitted by the uploader. Flickr is one of the early websites to use the tagging feature. Geotagging is also possible, thanks to imapFlickr. You can even embed the resulting map in your website. Albums can be further classified under collections which can again be classified under higher – order collections. The photos can be organized in to albums. But here one photo can belong to multiple albums. Instead of following traditional physical hierarchy, Flickr albums are based on categorized metadata.

The website is also considered to be a great example of folksonomy.