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Flickr is Taking Over the World

Posted on Tue, 2006-07-18 00:40 by sarahfelicity
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Flickr Takes Over the Festival

Proof positive: An announcement every night at the main stage of the Folk Festival that "The Festival now has a Flickr site!", followed by a decent attempt to explain what exactly that meant to the 10,000 people gathered.

Looks like there are 40 members in the group so far, and 712 photos, 24 hours after the festival closed, so I'd say it's been a success already. 40 members out of those 10,000 people might not sound like a lot, but frankly I shudder to think what it would be like to wade through every single photo taken on every single digital camera at the festival. Noooooooo!

I gotta say I'm fascinated and impressed by how quickly Flickr is taking the world by storm. Last fall when I was in the UK, none of my cousins had heard of it, and all thought I was weird for obsessively posting pictures from my trip. They're all signed up now... as are many of my non-geeky friends. Testament indeed.

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Cool! Let's just hope it

Thu, 2006-07-20 09:10 — Mason (not verified)

Cool! Let's just hope it doesn't mean that Yahoo! is taking over the world.... ;-)

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