Flickr is stupid, and late… but redeems itself.

Posted on June 12, 2007
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This is why I am in Berlin right now btw…

2 Responses to “Flickr is stupid, and late… but redeems itself.”

Jüri Kaljundi on June 15th, 2007 12:18 am

Congratulations to Flickr - at last

This always brings up the question, does translation mean localization? Will local users consider Flickr, Google, Yahoo or others as local services if just the user interface changes?

We run two photo sites here in our tiny Estonia. People always ask why are Estonian photo sites needed if there are sites like Flickr already out there? The answer is localization. For photo sites this means things like integration with Estonian print providers, mobile networks and other websites. But it also means being with local people in local community - many do not want to interact with foreign people from other countries. You want to feel at home. You want to be on the web with your friends, family and natives.

Estonian market is small, around 750 thousand Internet users out of a population of 1.3 million. Then again in one year users have uploaded to our sites over 4,5 million photos - around 1% of Flickr
Is Flickr Just the Start of More Translated and Localized Web 2.0 Apps? « Oatmeal Stout - Justin Thorp’s Web 2.0 blog on June 16th, 2007 9:51 am

[…] Yahoo! VP (and man who the Flickr team reports to) Bradley Horowitz, referring to the recent announcement, recently wrote in his blog, “Flickr is stupid, and late… but redeems itself.” I think we all can learn a lesson from this. […]