[PHOTO] "A Flickr of life"

[rfmcdpei]

This post at the Economist's Babbage blog regarding the apparent success of Flickr's new app and marketing strategy pleases me, if it's true. As a long-time Flickr user myself, I'm invested in the continuing survival and success of the service.

The previous version of the app was fusty at launch in 2009. It became positively antediluvian with the

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[robertprior]

Given how FaceBook treats its users, I'm really glad Flickr wasn't acquired by them. I'd have left years ago if that had happened.

And 50MB isn't really enormous. It's about standard for a full-frame photo. I've got panoramas ten times that big (thirty times that big before reduction).