A few enhancements that I'd like to see on Flickr:
1. Maintain a default set of recently uploaded pictures, with a refresh rate of say, 2 days.
2. A way to maintain a list of people whose work I'd like to follow on Flickr
Through the Flickr blog, or through "Explore", I often come across the profiles of some very gifted people whose work I'd like to keep track of. As of now, there seems to be no other way of doing this other than by adding them as a contact.
What I'd like to see is a feature by which I can mark a set of people whose work I'd like to "follow" on Flickr, and get updates from them, the way you get updates from your contacts, but without really having to add them as a contact.
3. A way to auto-publish content at specific points of time in the future
One of the inherent dynamics of User Generated Content is that, a profile attracts more attention when it is updated regularly, than if the same amount of content were to be posted at one shot.
To elaborate, let's consider the case of blogs. If you were following Seth Godin's blog, would you rather that he posted 30 blogs over a particular weekend, every month on a variety of topics, or that he posted one every day(, or for that matter one every few hours) ?
One of the secrets to having a successful blog or any community-based profile is to post regularly.
When you post content regularly, you not only give people who follow your work, time and space to digest what you are posting, and ruminate over the subject matter, but you also give them a reason to expect more.
Google gets this, which is why blogger seems to provide a feature of auto-publishing content at pre-defined points of time in the future.
It would be great if Flickr could follow suit and allow such a feature, allowing you to auto-publish your pictures at specific dates in the future.
4. Last of all, I'd like to see a wee bit more intelligence on Flickr, in that it doesn't scream out, "Please come back, We Miss you ! Renew Your Pro membership." , even for a first time Flickr user, who's never been Pro to begin with.
Also, I feel the line itself sounds very affected, and has scope for improvement.
1. Maintain a default set of recently uploaded pictures, with a refresh rate of say, 2 days.
2. A way to maintain a list of people whose work I'd like to follow on Flickr
Through the Flickr blog, or through "Explore", I often come across the profiles of some very gifted people whose work I'd like to keep track of. As of now, there seems to be no other way of doing this other than by adding them as a contact.
What I'd like to see is a feature by which I can mark a set of people whose work I'd like to "follow" on Flickr, and get updates from them, the way you get updates from your contacts, but without really having to add them as a contact.
3. A way to auto-publish content at specific points of time in the future
One of the inherent dynamics of User Generated Content is that, a profile attracts more attention when it is updated regularly, than if the same amount of content were to be posted at one shot.
To elaborate, let's consider the case of blogs. If you were following Seth Godin's blog, would you rather that he posted 30 blogs over a particular weekend, every month on a variety of topics, or that he posted one every day(, or for that matter one every few hours) ?
One of the secrets to having a successful blog or any community-based profile is to post regularly.
When you post content regularly, you not only give people who follow your work, time and space to digest what you are posting, and ruminate over the subject matter, but you also give them a reason to expect more.
Google gets this, which is why blogger seems to provide a feature of auto-publishing content at pre-defined points of time in the future.
It would be great if Flickr could follow suit and allow such a feature, allowing you to auto-publish your pictures at specific dates in the future.
4. Last of all, I'd like to see a wee bit more intelligence on Flickr, in that it doesn't scream out, "Please come back, We Miss you ! Renew Your Pro membership." , even for a first time Flickr user, who's never been Pro to begin with.
Also, I feel the line itself sounds very affected, and has scope for improvement.
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