{"id":659130,"date":"2013-05-20T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=647396"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:28:09","slug":"flickr-gets-revamp-with-1-tb-of-photo-storage-free-and-yahoo-gets-new-nyc-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659130","title":{"rendered":"Flickr gets revamp \u2014 with 1 TB of photo storage free \u2014 and Yahoo gets new NYC office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo’s already had a busy Monday, what with that little $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition<\/a>, but the company had a few more announcements to make at a press conference Monday afternoon in New York. It’s revamping its photo-sharing service Flickr, which has largely been left to languish since Yahoo acquired it in 2005. “We want to make Flickr awesome again,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said.<\/p>\n

Flickr is getting three big updates. All users will get 1 terabyte of photo storage for free. The site’s s interface is also being redesigned to focus on full-resolution photos — both in photo browsing and in search — rather than words and links. Users will be able to share the full-resolution photos by email, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. And, in addition to the\u00a0iOS app Flickr\u00a0launched last December<\/a>, Yahoo is launching an Android app.<\/p>\n

Flickr Pro, which had allowed users to pay for more storage space, is going away. “There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs]\u00a0there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore,” Mayer said (though she acknowledged that there are “different skill levels”). There are still a couple of paid options<\/a>: Users can pay $49.99 a year for an ad-free interface, and can add a second terabyte of data for $499.99 per year. It’s unclear what will happen with existing Flickr Pro memberships that users have already paid for.<\/p>\n

On an investor call on Monday morning, Mayer had noted<\/a> that there are “obvious synergies between Flickr and Tumblr,” but that it’s too early to say what those opportunities will be.<\/p>\n

The choice of location for the press conference — a hotel in Times Square — became clear as Mayer\u00a0announced that Yahoo has taken out a lease for office space at 229 West 43rd Street — the old New York Times<\/em> building — and will be moving all 500 of its New York-based employees there. Tumblr’s employees, however, will stay downtown at their Union Square office.<\/p>\n

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took the stage to say the move reflects “what a big player New York has become in the tech industry,” with Yahoo becoming “one of the largest tech presences in the city.” He noted that Tumblr is a “New York-grown company” and that NYC was the first city government to have its own Tumblr.<\/p>\n

“Twenty years ago, if you looked out the window, there were plenty of yahoos in Times Square,” he said. “Now the Yahoos here will make an honest living … and help us grow and make our economy stronger.”<\/p>\n

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