![]() It didn't even offer video support until it got scared by Twitter's Vine. ( Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 naturally, Facebook has also been accused of " killing Instagram.") But remember, Instagram originally didn't do much more than offer some photo filters. Where Flickr fell behind in the past was in the all-important mobile space, where Instagram and others took up the slack, and then got major play with multi-billion dollar acquisitions. That, plus new releases of the mobile Flickr apps, have earned it an Editors' Choice award or two here at. Especially after its big overhaul in 2013, where it added an incredible of amount of free online-storage space, among other changes. Yahoo has owned Flickr since 2006, and while some say (Opens in a new window) Flickr has become the "poster child for Yahoo's failures"-mostly because Yahoo's internal struggles left it languishing with none of the flash and attention Instagram garners for Facebook-we'd argue that Flickr is arguably the best photo-sharing service going. Yahoo, in particular, likes companies that drop the "e," having bought Flickr and Tumblr. ( now belongs to Flickr, but the brand remains the same.) Even Twitter started as Twttr, eschewing all vowels. Just ask Tumblr and Quikr and Picr, to name a few. Then, the dropping of the "e" before "r" as a form of brandability became a little too accepted. The story goes that 10 years ago, the URL "" wasn't available, so rather than totally rename a then-fledgling photo storage and sharing service, the founders went with Flickr instead. ![]()
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