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 05/22/2013 01:47:36 PM · #1
That's what Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, said at Yahoo Press Conference...

" ... was a decision that we would not have the Flickr Pro piece anymore, and that all - there's no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there's everything is professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skills, but we didn't want to have a Flickr Pro anymore, we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing."

At around 46:12, here: Yahoo Event
 05/22/2013 01:50:53 PM · #2
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.

Message edited by author 2013-05-22 13:52:00.
 05/22/2013 02:08:28 PM · #3
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.


:runs to computer to delete flickr account: Yeah, ummm, what Slippy said.

Message edited by author 2013-05-22 14:08:53.
 05/22/2013 02:11:55 PM · #4
"Since everybody's starting up and running businesses there's no longer any such thing as an *executive* CEO, and since they're all doing the same thing we should give them all the same experience compensation ..."
 05/22/2013 02:17:14 PM · #5
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.


Just wondering, which site should a self-respecting photographer use, apart from DPC?
 05/22/2013 02:19:18 PM · #6
Originally posted by hajeka:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.


Just wondering, which site should a self-respecting photographer use, apart from DPC?

There are other sites?!
 05/22/2013 02:27:03 PM · #7
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.


Ohhhhh Slippy Sippy, deems fighting words, don't know about flicker, but I've sold more pix on FB than ANY other site ... Personally I think FB is FREAKINFANTASTIC.,.. it cost nuthin, and like I said I sell more on it than FineArt, my Web page, etc... and get to put the stuff I like up... Don't remember if I have a flicker account, LOL....

I bets you'se one of of them tweeters that has that # thingy... LOL (actually makin' fun of me cause I JUST learned what that means)

#IisaDorknProudofit
 05/22/2013 02:35:10 PM · #8
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by hajeka:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Flickr is shit anyway. No self-respecting photographer would use that site. It's for the kiddies to share photos, like Facebook.


Just wondering, which site should a self-respecting photographer use, apart from DPC?

There are other sites?!


I only know one other site :)
 05/22/2013 02:51:17 PM · #9
It is a bit like saying anyone who can operate a PC is a programmer. Come to think of it, that may be why Yahoo has fallen so far from the days when they were bigger than Google. Yahoo used to have some great leading edge programmers, not so much these days. So Flickr will diminish and Microsoft and Google will fight to be the main photo storage area.

After all since anyone can do anything, and if you are unable to separate those who do a thing very well from those who dabble, there is no level of quality that you would be willing to play for.
 05/22/2013 03:07:33 PM · #10
Originally posted by GeneralE:
"Since everybody's starting up and running businesses there's no longer any such thing as an *executive* CEO, and since they're all doing the same thing we should give them all the same experience compensation ..."


EXACTLY. the general reads the runes.
 05/22/2013 03:53:29 PM · #11
AND the statement seems to be an orgy of anti-grammer.
 05/22/2013 04:15:13 PM · #12
Wow! Such bravery, flaunting her extraordinary ignorance so publicly.
 05/22/2013 04:29:02 PM · #13
She's the decider!
 05/22/2013 04:35:00 PM · #14
Originally posted by hajeka:

I only know one other site :)


Love them = and 12 pairs a year is a pretty impressive output!
 05/22/2013 04:49:23 PM · #15
this still doesn't compare to the travesty of an update that photobucket pushed out.
 05/22/2013 05:35:28 PM · #16
She calls it a misstatement and apologizes.
 05/22/2013 07:56:28 PM · #17
I guess that in the age of Twitter apologies for something "taken out of context", no one needs to really mean what they say anymore.
 05/22/2013 07:58:43 PM · #18
Originally posted by tanguera:
I guess that in the age of Twitter apologies for something "taken out of context", no one needs to really mean what they say anymore.


Hehehe. Too right.
 05/22/2013 08:23:12 PM · #19
she doesn't speak very well. I think she has been trained.
 05/22/2013 08:39:20 PM · #20
I think maybe she meant there are no pro photographers on Flickr. The FlickrPro accounts don't exist any more.

Or, she could mean that since everyone can post photos at full resolution, they are treating everyone like a pro.

Message edited by author 2013-05-22 20:44:30.
 05/22/2013 09:02:57 PM · #21
Double

Message edited by author 2013-05-22 21:04:23.
 05/22/2013 09:03:55 PM · #22
Originally posted by tanguera:
I guess that in the age of Twitter apologies for something "taken out of context", no one needs to really mean what they say anymore.


What other purpose is there for twitter? It's our generation's version of the pet rock.
 05/22/2013 10:13:41 PM · #23
I give her the benefit of the doubt. She says she meant that even your armchair photog could have gigabytes and gigabytes of photos and that Flickr was offering a terabyte of storage to everybody because there is no longer a "pro photographer" subclass that would be the only ones interested in such an amount of storage.

It was muffed, no doubt,and she admitted to as much.
 05/22/2013 10:41:19 PM · #24
Originally posted by tnun:
she doesn't speak very well. I think she has been trained.


She doesn't speak very well grammatically. I don't think she has been trained.

Perhaps if she gets a better grammer device, she'll be a pro just like everyone else and there will be no need for GrammarPro any longer.

Message edited by author 2013-05-22 22:43:37.
 05/22/2013 10:47:42 PM · #25
I've been thinking. I listened to the first part of her speech and it was very smooth, like a campaigner, with a joke or two and the very professional pause for applause. But I got bored, and had to resort to the text for the pro photographer part.
What puzzles me is whether whatever she is taking wore off or just started to kick in. (Does she know the mayor of Toronto I wonder).
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