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Cameron Moll Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons. He's the founder of Authentic Jobs Inc, among other endeavors.

This site is a compendium of design, HTML5/CSS3, DSLR video, Apple, mobile, and other miscellaneous banter.

Colosseo Poster

Reimagining the Roman Coliseum in type.

In Defense of Flickr

published 23 July 2012

Giles Turnbull:

The thing with Flickr isn’t that it is no longer awesome, but that it is no longer fashionable.

The web has matured a lot in recent years, to the point where websites have become brands. Brands that can advertise and market themselves, brands that work hard to influence the minds of the younger internet users. The brands want to lure people in with the promise of free stuff and social networks, in return for personal information. Which of course, having grown up with Facebook, many of today’s teens and 20-somethings are perfectly happy to give away.

I know I probably sound like a moaning old grandad at this point, but: Flickr has never been like that. It offered a service, in exchange for money. That’s a tried and tested way of doing things. It worked very well before the internet came along, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t continue to work now.

Just renewed my Flickr Pro subscription last week, in fact.

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