Another win for Mayer as Yahoo's Flickr 'outshines Instagram'
Another win for CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo: A new update of its once dominant photo sharing application Flickr for mobile on iOS is " the best mobile photo app out there at the moment," according to Forbes magazine.
Marissa Mayer: another win
Says Forbes, "Flickr now has more and better filters than Instagram. There’s the ability to like your friends’ photos just as you can on Instagram. It’s got geotagging . It has the ability to push the photo updates out to Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter (Instagam no longer plays nice with Twitter).
"All these updates would be enough to make Flickr’s mobile app better than Instagram’s. However, they still have the ability to push the photos out to groups of all kinds (always a Flickr strength), photo stats (how many times has your photo been viewed? and on which camera was it taken?), and storage."
Forbes says the last one is big: "It actually allows Flickr to generate revenue, something which Instagram has yet to do since its inception."
The contrast between the new Twitter app with photo filters and the new Flickr app couldn’t be more stark, says Forbes .
Silicon Valley.com says Yahoo showed "exquisite timing" releasing its updated Flickr mobile app with photo filters and editing capabilities, "just as the king of such apps -- San Francisco-based Instagram -- cut off functionality with popular microblogging service Twitter."
BABY PS Marisa who had a baby boy two months ago shortly taking over at Yahoo has told CNN," The thing that surprised me is that the job is really fun…and the baby's been easy. The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be. I've been really lucky that way."