Flickr’s site has looked pretty tired for a long time, with lots of blank white space and annoying navigation. Originally intended for photographers to share their work, the metadata for each pic is prominently displayed, something casual users could care less about. In recent years, Yahoo owned Flicker has been losing out to image sharing platforms designed with smartphones in mind like Instagram -which was acquired by Facebook last year. The new update fills up nearly all the blank space with a mosaic of images with large, high res photos prominently displayed. The navigation is revamped as well and the whole thing looks and functions like a dream.

Of course, if this doesn’t bring the masses back to Flickr, the Free Terabyte of Storage will! It’s an amazing amount of space to hand out, and it put’s Google’s 15 GB to shame. Yahoo must know most users won’t come close to using this, at least not yet. But the new Flickr will host full resolution images and the sensors in all of our devices are only growing, so this huge amount of storage might not seem so big someday.

Which leads me to the updated Android app. The iPhone got a refreshed Flickr app a few months back, and now Android phones and tablets can join in the party. The design is similar to the website. The photos are dynamically resized and placed in the same type of tiled layout. Also, the photos aren’t cropped, but presented in the full aspect ratio.

“The new Flickr for Android maintains your photos’ original quality, so every image you take, edit, share, or view on your phone or tablet looks spectacular,” CEO Mayer wrote in a Tumblr post announcing the Flickr update. She wasn’t kidding, it looks incredible. We might just have a contender here, Instagram, especially those of us who prefer sharing our pics uncompressed and without filters.

[Via: Wired

If you’re an avid Hipstamatic user then Oggl might just be the app for you. Head over to the Oggl website and request an invitation.

[Via: AllThingsD]

The Wikimedia Commons app makes uploading pictures a breeze, allowing users to snap pictures directly from their cameras and tag, title and create categories for their submissions. The app requires a Wikipedia account, which cannot be done through the app, so users will have to go online and create one before uploading. The Android version of the app allows multiple image upload, and there is also a web app so that other smartphone users do not get left out.

The Wikimedia Commons app can be found at the Google Play Store and at the iTunes App Store.

[Via: Gizmodo]

Instagram launched in the fall of 2010 has an iOS-exclusive photo-sharing app and has since expanded its set of features and its horizons to other platforms, namely Android. This helped Instagram grow even faster, though it was never slouching to begin with.

Just over one month ago we reported Instagram hit 90 million active users and those users were sharing 40 million photos per day. So in that small amount of time from then to now, the app gained another 10 million active users. Even more staggering: the current number of active users is three times more than the total number of signed up users ten months ago on Instagram.

After some privacy concerns toward the end of last year there had been rumors that Instagram lost 25 percent of its total user count, which Instagram denied and is clearly now false. The $1 billion startup is doing just dandy.

“So from our team to the hundred million people who call Instagram home, we say thank you. Thank you for sharing your world and inspiring us all to do the same,” wrote Kevin Systrom today, co-founder.

[via MobileBurn]