These past few weeks I've been looking for compelling alternatives to Instagram, specially now that the full power of Facebook and it's choices are behind it.
I haven't found one.
Then came Flickr this week with a redesigned mobile app and some changes to the web... at first it looked like an interesting approach, but after playing with it, it's still miles away from where I want it to be... nevertheless, the only thought that there is new stuff after so long, brought me hope.
I'm not alone thinking Yahoo is in a position where it could bring Flickr back to where it once stand, but it won't be easy. Instagram is the new service de-facto and others like 500px, Picasa and now even Twitter, are pushing heavily to own both amateur and professional photo sharing... but there is a difference, Yahoo has the potential to differentiate in 3 areas: speed, all-social-inclusive and simplicity!
But most importantly... they can up the game to a whole new level if they center the experience around the user and not about building a monopoly! - which these days more and more services are forgetting about.
The journey has just resumed, the land of opportunities just opened up for Flickr and I want to believe they can come back... so I'll keep waiting... eyes opened wide!
PS: this also means you will have to adopt new technologies - so guys in case you were not there when the memo was sent... Flash is dead, so please update your home page for the rest of us who have moved on!
Just because some cancerous retard on the verge of death said something once, it has to be true.
ReplyDeleteThanks to that kind of blog, Flash is getting frowned upon even if it's definitely the best techno to use.
sorry, maybe flash would not dead after we all dead. dont you see most fb game made in flash? even fb angry birds use flash. please think before speak. LOL
ReplyDeletejust like VB and Winforms are not dead and will no die anytime soon... but they are not and will not be where they were in their years of glory.
ReplyDeleteSteve Jobs didn't kill Flash, just like he didn't kill the DVD drive or the ethernet port, technologies that once served a purpose open spaces to new ones that solve for the same issues in more efficients and sometimes even, open ways. Flash opened the way to HTML5.
as far as I see it Apple just made it evident that the technology as it stand at that moment was doom to die, so why invest in something whose results can be accomplished following an open and cross platform way?... plus Adobe didn't made it difficult to kill it, if only they had invested in making it secure, fast and efficient in mobile... within the timeframe that was needed... but they didn't and now even them have embrassade HTML5 as the future.
so, wether we like or not this is reality... you can use ActionScript and what you learnt from the ages of Flash and build mobile apps, but just like WinRT is not Silverlight, the new ways you can use AS is not Flash... they are just evolutions of a model made to keep your skills valuable for a few years more, just in time for a new wave of developers to come and learn the new skills of our trade and run with new stuff.
peace!