Yahoo! says ‘Hello, India!’ to enable Flickr Communities connect offline

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Yahoo! says ‘Hello, India!’ to enable Flickr Communities connect offline

Yahoo! India hosted unique community events for Flickr across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore this month to provide an offline platform for Flickr photo and video enthusiasts. Designed around the theme “Hello, India!”, these community events celebrated the growing success of Flickr in India and served as a vibrant platform for people to connect with their communities, meet new friends and exchange their exciting experiences.

“Hello, India!” community events brought together nearly 200 Flickr community members in each city and helped them connect through the language of photography.

Flickr offers a compelling online photo-sharing platform that is at the centre of people’s online lives. Yahoo! India already boasts of over 2.29 million Flickr users (comScore, March 2010) with over 12,500 groups connected with the term “India”. Globally, Flickr already has over 4 billion photo and video uploads and a monthly unique visitors of 85.9 million, worldwide (comScore, March 2010). Flickr allows users to effortlessly upload, organize, edit, control, share, explore and do more.

“We are all photographers now documenting and sharing individual perspectives that make up a collective memoir of the world,” said David Fusco, Flickr International Project Manager. “We appreciate one another’s contributions. We learn, we share, we grow, it’s what makes Flickr so special.”

Flickr is an awe-inspiring collection of photos and video that makes for endless exploration and discovery of beautiful, stunning, touching moments that people capture around the world. It enables interaction and control amongst its community of members and allows anyone to share their authentic photos and personal video clips publicly or privately. Whether communicating with friends and family, conversing about shared interests, or capturing breaking news, members can upload and share photos and video from anywhere at anytime.

“Flickr has established itself as the eyes of the world, with millions of people all over the planet sharing photos and video of every imaginable aspect of life,” said Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, Yahoo! India.

“Our community events in India witnessed an overwhelming response which truly testifies Flickr’s popularity. Yahoo! India already has over two million Flickr users. With Flickr, we want to help people make their photos and video available to those who matter to them. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video,” added Arun.

“Once I started using Flickr, I have become a regular. A window of Flickr is always open and I keep updating my destinations on Flickr regularly. It is a virtual visual gallery for amazing captures of my travels. Flickr is a platform for me to share my photos and seek feedback from people who share interest in photography, by being member of such groups,” said R. Sreenivasan, a member of the Delhi Photographers Group & Co-founder of Career Launcher.

Flickr also has an open application programming interface (API) that allows anyone to write their own programme in new and different ways. The Flickr App Garden is a place where developers can showcase the applications they have created. Flickr also provides a rich and seamless mobile-web experience with m.flickr.com , allowing users to easily manage, share and explore photos from their mobile phones.