Tag Archives: Flickr

Strategies For Startup Success

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I gave at talk this morning at Yankee Group. It was part of the SmartSpeaker series that CEO Emily Green has been organizing for a few months now. Many months ago, over breakfast, Emily asked me to give a talk … Continue reading →

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Geotagging is a feature

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Flickr’s native geotagging integration has re-kindled the debate on whether one can create sticky community sites around geotagging. That’s the wrong question to ask. Geotagging is a feature. It hasn’t been hard to do technically for quite a while. Just … Continue reading →

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Flickr Photos Geotagged at 50K/hour

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Flickr finally released its geotagging feature. It’s a simple drag’n’drop interface onto a Yahoo! map. 1.2M geotagged photos in 24 hours is about 50K/hour, which is an impressive rate even for a feature that was “pre-sold” for a while. There … Continue reading →

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