Flickr Quotes:

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

- Louise Mensch

source: "We Speak To The British Politician Behind The Controversial 180-Character 'Twitter-Killer' Menshn" by Adam Taylor, www.businessinsider.com. July 5, 2012.

topic: Play, People, Flickr

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

- Joachim Schmid

topic: Photography, Real, Firsts, History Of Photography, Flickr

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

- Tim O'Reilly

topic: Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon, Collective Intelligence, Flickr

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.

- Pete Cashmore

source: "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by ete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

topic: Business, Attention, Radio, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

- Tim O'Reilly

topic: Flickr

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

- Max Levchin

topic: Care, Updates, Stills, Flickr

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

- David Filo

source: "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Creating, Flickr

The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

- Jared Spool

topic: Children, Keys, Pieces, Personalization, Flickr

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.

- Marissa Mayer

topic: Skills, Space, Quality, Flickr, Professional Photographer

In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What's the point?

- Alec Soth

topic: Looks, World, Photograph, Flickr