Yahoo has announced the overhaul of Flickr, its photo and video sharing site, after purchasing social microblogging website Tumblr. The new Flickr has “a beautiful, completely reimagined experience that puts photos front and center,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote in a blog post that is reminiscent of what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said when announcing his company’s overhaul of NewsFeed.
Flickr’s new user interface is “built around a new photostream that gives you a vivid and endlessly scrolling gallery,” Mayer said. “It’s easy to see what your friends are posting and what they’re saying about your photos.”
Flickr has also increased the amount of free storage space for users to 1 TB and overhauled its Android app.
Google recently updated Google+ along similar lines.
“There are certain kinds of language and terminology that’s the culture of technology, and you hear the same phrases being used,” Greg Sterling, a senior analyst at Opus Research, told TechNewsWorld when asked about the similarities between Facebook’s and Flickr’s announcements. “There’s a similar mindset of thinking among tech companies.”
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