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New Flickr Features

November 21st, 2007

Impressively, whilst it took three and a half years for the first billion pictures to be uploaded [to Flickr], the second billion took only three months.

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Second, the Flickr team have just added some new features, specifically a world map with popular tags overlaid and a new Places interface, providing a summary of a particular location. The new map has temporarily lost the ability to zoom in straight away (press Search then Go to get the zoom bar), but the Places interface is amazing fun.

Nothing to add. Just trying something like a search for photos tagged “river” in, say, Germany yields tons of wonderful pictures. And the places feature – specifically, for the place Shanghai that it happened to pick at random – led me to this:

Awesome.

Posted in Chuckellania, Photos, Web

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