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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:49 Hiren Pathak

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I know what you guys are thinking and I can understand your eagerness about this "breaking news". But keep reading and you will find out what I am talking about. First let me talk about few points.

Yahoo recently (begining of this year) launched portals in India in seven local languages. This languages includes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada.

According to Mr. George Zacharias, managing director of Yahoo India, 85% of India's online users use at least one of Yahoo's services. The number of internet users will increase from 300 million to 400 million over next five years.

Yahoo also plans to eventually add groups, blogs, bulletin boards and other services to its Indian language portals. Hold your eagerness guys, keep reading I promise you I will tell you about Flicker.com on Sale news.

Flickr, a yahoo owned popular online photo-sharing site, on Monday announced that it is set to introduce sites in French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese, with other languages to follow.

According to Alexa stats, out of 100%, 25.5% users come from USA, 5.4% from UK, 3.6% from Spain, 3.4% from Germany, 2.7% from China, 1.9% France, 1.9% from Italy, 1.7% from Japan and 1.5% from India. So based on the percentage of users, India ranks 15th. So if you look at the current language releases and the the ranks, Indian languages comes next. Flickr might release its services in Indian local languages soon. Also based on my first two paragraph, Yahoo already has Indian languages compatibility and I don't think it would be a big deal for Yahoo to incorporate these languages into Flickr as well.

And now here is your news that you are eagerly waiting for. Its pretty common to register a domain name which is similar to a famous website and thats what I encountered today. I was trying to find out some statistics about Flickr and just typed in "Flicker.com" in my address bar. Guess what I found out ? that domain is on sale and the guy who owns that domain is insane. The website has more then 100,000 unique visitors for a month. These visitors are basically direct navigation (people basically type-in this domain name in their browser).

This guy declined so many offers that he got for this domain and the latest one that he declined was of $600,000. This is just a height of desperation.

Written By: Hiren Pathak. You can contact him at informationmadness AT gmail DOT COM
Our valuable member Hiren Pathak has been with us since Tuesday, 12 December 2006.

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2010-06-15 12:30:29
Based on my experience, Flickr actually is not a great way to share photos with family and friends - it's much worse than Yahoo Photos used to be. The main problem is that it's not easy to share a group of photos without creating a permanent, separate "set." For those who like to send around groups of photos, the number of "sets" you need to create quickly gets too large, and they become unmanageable.

Flickr should allow you to use Organizr to create a group of photos and send them using Yahoo Mail, without having to create a permanent set. This would make the service a lot more useful for sharing purposes.

Having said this, you can work around this problem by installing the Flickr application from within Yahoo Mail. That application isn't as easy to use as Organizr, but it does allow you to send groups of photos without creating a permanent set.

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