Mayer has been busy. Fresh off the heels of the company's Tumblr acquisition,
the Yahoo CEO unveiled a major redesign of Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo site that had lost much
of its polish in recent years. Mayer's stated goal was to make Flickr' "awesome again."
You now get 1 terabyte of free storage, or what Yahoo claims is 70 times what rivals offer. Yes,
that's seven-zero. To provide a perspective on that terabyte, it represents the equivalent, Yahoo
says, of 537,731 6.5-megapixel images, a big enough haul for an entire generation of photos, actually
more than a single generation. Indeed if you took a photo every hour every day, it would take you more
than 61 years to fill that space, Yahoo says.
Yahoo also announced a new photo experience for Android users, following an upgrade that had already been made available to the iOS crowd.
I'll reserve judgment on whether Yahoo and Flickr meet that goal, but Mayer appears to be off to
a splendid start with big changes that are indeed potentially a big deal for snap happy consumers.
Moreover, you can upload and download your pictures in full
resolution and share them, Yahoo claims, without any loss of quality. You can upload videos of up to three
minutes in length as well.
And Yahoo has dramatically sweetened the way those photos are presented. The Flickr site gets a long overdue
major makeover, a handsome new interface that showcases the pictures themselves. "We had lost that," says Yahoo
senior vice president Adam Cahan. Indeed, prior to the redesign, which is now live, you'd see words, links
and white space, with picture thumbnails.
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