Stewart Butterfield is up on stage, reporting on recent developments at Flickr.

15.4 million registered users. 38 million unique visitors, 1.38 billion photos. 5-15 million new photos a day.

Previewing a replacement for existing geotagging service…

115,000 geotagged photos per day, one every 1.3 seconds.

Merge tagging and locations to deliver a new ui that scales better to handle growth in usage.

“But there’s more…”

Current ‘interestingness’ algorithm for photos can also be applied to the geolocation, creating pages of ‘iconic’ images at a given location.

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