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Good-bye Flickr Pro
I’ve fallen out of love with Flickr…
I have been a Flickr Pro user for a number of years, but recently decided not to renew my Pro account. Flickr was the place where I kept my travel shots, but also indulged in a little macro photography now and again.
The Flickr community is awesome and I’ve discovered a number of truly amazing photographers over the years… I am a firm believer that the photo-sharing site can be a very powerful conversational tool, and should be included, whenever possible, in your overall social media strategy.
Flickr has however failed to keep up with other social networking sites in terms of innovation, and I’d really like to see them work on their integration with other Social Media sites. Here’s what I’d like to see:
- Flickr users are increasingly tweaking their profiles to update their status and it would make sense to incorporate a status bar
- Better integration with Twitter: I’d love to have Twitter widget on my profile
- A descent Facebook Flickr pictures tab/widget (most of the ones I’ve tried to install on my Facebook profile are mediocre), and an embeddable Facebook Fan Page would be good too
- Embeddable slideshows/photofolios on LinkedIn
- Foursquare integration – Adam mentioned that he’s like to be able to add pictures to his Foursquare check-ins. I’d like to be able to create maps of places I have been to. Foursquare and Flickr could be a match made in heaven
I have decided to keep a free Flickr profile where I’ll be uploading photos on the go from my phone for now. Photo-manipulation FTW! 
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