Sharing Flickr pics in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
May 23, 2008 on 2:43 pm | In Features | 25 Comments
Photo sharing is one of the most popular features in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. It’s really easy to share pictures from your computer or from an account on Flickr.com, Yahoo!’s online photo sharing service.
Flickr lets you upload pictures to their site which you can then share with friends, family and if you want, even the general public that browses on Flickr. Once your photos are online at Flickr, you can also access them to share with friends while you IM. Here’s how it works…
The first step is to make sure your photos are on Flickr. Flickr is free, so just head over to Flickr.com, sign in with your Yahoo! ID, and then click the Upload Photos link to get started.
Then the next time you’re on IM and want to share photos from your Flickr account, just click the “Photos” button in the IM window. This will send a message to your friend, asking them to accept your photo sharing invitation. Once they accept, a side panel opens on your IM window (and your friend’s). This is the area where you can view the photos you share.
Once the side panel is open, click the “+ Add Photos” button and choose “Add from Flickr…”. This will bring up the Flickr Photo Picker window that shows your Flickr photostream. Use the dropdown menu to choose photos from a specific set you have on Flickr, or enter a tag in the search box to find photos. When you see a photo you want to share, just click it and it’s automatically added to the photo sharing panel. Or, click the “Add All” button.
While you’re adding photos, your friend can add their own to the window from their Flickr account, or from their hard drive. Next thing you know, you’ve got a bunch of photos to look at (and discuss!). One last tip – if you want to save any of the photos your friend shares with you, click the “Save” button in the photo panel to save them to your own Flickr account or to your computer.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
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Comment by Ryan — May 23, 2008 #
Sounds great! I love Flickr.
Comment by annette — May 23, 2008 #
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i want messenjer 9
Comment by lale — June 3, 2008 #
I’m having problems with my webcam and it’s believed it could be a problem with the yahoo messanger vista version or a version being used from yahoo, according to the Toshiba’s technical support team. The webcam usually get black and very dark that one hardly see the picture. Pls l would like to know what is the problem. Thanks and hope to hear from you soonest.
Comment by Olajuwon Odunsi — June 4, 2008 #
I am trying to use this feature but unfortunetly not working!
I think we are still at a stage where things are nor integrating well.
Comment by costa — June 22, 2008 #
Great News – can load and store many pics at Flickr and then apply on YIM
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Flickr is much better in quality and effiency that former yahoo pictures loader.
Comment by GolfSD4Fun — July 11, 2008 #
doesn’t work for me.
somehow, they said my email is not associated with the flickr account.
maybe not integrating very well with it?
Comment by gabriel — July 16, 2008 #
doesn’t work for me either..
anyone know any updates?
Comment by immanuel — August 7, 2008 #
great new features for yahoo 9.0 I love it tried it out and loved the katemotions and other things too but the katemotions is the best who ever thought of that idea is a whiz. yippe i love cats i have a cat at home she is spoiled in every way. BUT LOVED
Comment by Beverley — August 22, 2008 #
Yeah, a power user? I hope thats a good thing!! Thanks! So far everything is working great, but don’t use the Vista Messanger, it’s not so great…yet!
Comment by Bimmerchics — August 25, 2008 #
This is a very cool feature.. It puts yahoo back on the top of yahoo messengers to use.
Comment by dninc — December 10, 2008 #
Wow…Great! I Love Yahoo. I am using yahoo account from the beginning….I just Love it. In fact i have couple of yahoo (active) accounts. Still I will bring more friends to yahoo… Sure!
Good Luck
Navneeth – USA
Comment by Navneeth K — June 18, 2009 #
This is a very cool feature
Comment by Mehdi Zakhireh — September 6, 2009 #
“. One last tip – if you want to save any of the photos your friend shares with you, click the “Save” button in the photo panel to save them to your own Flickr account or to your computer. ”
You do realize you’re actively encouraging people to violate flickr’s rules right?
Comment by Robert — September 24, 2009 #
There is some bad advice here….if you upload your friends pictures to your Flickr account, there is a good chance you will lose your flickr account as uploading pictures you did not take yourself is not allowed there.
If you do this, you risk deletion as it is contrary to the Flickr Community Guidelines.
Comment by MT501 — September 24, 2009 #
this is also a violation of the TOS of both flickr and Y! in that it is encouraging the use of copyrighted materials not owned by the person who posts them to their flickr account.
it’s also against the law.
the function should be disabled: you are essentially touting a feature that will cause deletions at flickr, which cannot be recovered, and the blame will be pointed right here to the IM team.
please fix this needless cause of account deletions.
Comment by rippie — September 24, 2009 #
“if you want to save any of the photos your friend shares with you, click the “Save” button in the photo panel to save them to your own Flickr account or to your computer.”
This is in clear violation of the Flickr Terms of Service. An individual cannot upload anyhting to their Flickr account they did not create.
Please fix this immediately.
Comment by Burnt Umber — September 24, 2009 #
One last tip – if you want to save any of the photos your friend shares with you, click the “Save” button in the photo panel to save them to your own Flickr account or to your computer.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
This statement is a violation to the of Flickr the Flickr Community Guidelines
http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne
Do upload content that you have created.
Respect the copyright of others. This means don’t steal photos or videos that other people have shared and pass them off as your own. (That’s what favorites are for.)
Comment by Terrie — September 24, 2009 #
if you want to save any of the photos your friend shares with you, click the “Save” button in the photo panel to save them to your own Flickr account or to your computer. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds like copyright infringement to me and a violation of Flickr terms of service !
Comment by cajunlady50 — September 24, 2009 #
I suggest you read this :
http://www.pitt.edu/~skvarka/education/copyright/
Then remove this feature ! Eventually Yahoo will be in court over copyright infringements and violations from the owners of the photos ! !
Comment by cajunlady50 — September 24, 2009 #
Now READ Flickr TOS:
http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne
Your feature clearly violates this !
Comment by cajunlady50 — September 24, 2009 #
Point in question at Flickr:
Don’t upload anything that isn’t yours.
This includes other people’s photos, video and/or stuff you’ve collected from around the Internet. Accounts that consist primarily of such collections may be terminated at any time.
Comment by cajunlady50 — September 24, 2009 #