The photo service Flickr will launch a market for buying and selling images in 2015, a new business model with which to monetize and sustain the capabilities offered free to users.
“The business model is to create a market where those photos with commercial value that are hosted on Flickr part of a marketplace where people can find and pay for them and where photographer a high percentage of that purchase takes, “he explained Wednesday in a meeting with reporters Service CEO, Bernardo Hernández.
Flickr, with 10.000 million images and that are uploaded every day 5 million new photographs, ‘says allows users to 96 million unique users a month-free store to 1 tera information .
Hernandez stated that the objective of Flickr owned by Yahoo !, is “will return to be relevant” in the field of photography , as it was when it was launched 10 years ago. Asked about what results to be relevant, he pointed out that beyond achieving numerical targets users or income is becoming “almost indispensable in authority” in the field of photography.
The last change made by the service has been the publication of an application for iPad The management has announced that the future marketplace will allow photographers to receive a ” substantial amount very competitive, “the percentage of the price of each photo sold. Hernandez, a former director of Google and it takes one and a half in front of Flickr, asserted that changes are to continue entering gradually in the service, but has admitted that he would “go faster. ” However, he stressed that the Internet facing and change 10 years of life , which has fulfilled Flickr, amount to do 100 actual years.
The manager of Yahoo! has stressed that the essence of photography is undergoing a similar transition that marked the mail for written communication, which became writers and managers of large amount of information to millions of people. “In anything take pictures will be as important as knowing how to write “, he argued.
A user has been added, it can take about 5,000 pictures a year and faces the technological challenge of how and where stored, how it manages, searches and organizes. Hernandez said that Flickr is positioned as a “full service” used to store, share, organize and even sell images from different types of devices, which preserves “very scrupulous” Intellectual Property and user privacy.
The service manager has denied that Flickr purports to be an social network , although considered a complement thereof. In the field of organizing and finding graphic information, stressed that they are making significant progress in object recognition using artificial intelligence algorithms that analyze the pixels.
According to Hernandez, the photo service It is able to detect thousands of objects, but for now only works for English terms.
On the other hand, has said that t ransition industry mobile is “unstoppable” and Yahoo’s efforts in this direction are beginning to bear fruit.
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