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Does it have Learn to play the Ocarina? (iPhone app: http://www.smule.com/) - RAD Moose

Sting will be all, "What? You call that a barre chord? Go back to Windows, you wanker." - Karim

A celebrity is making more money than the guitar teacher in town. I'll take the celeb. - Michael Gaines

I agree, master does not equal teacher - Ryan

Hate to break it to everyone, but sting is a Bass player. - Brian O'Neil

@Brian I knew that, if no one else did ;) - Susan

The would be interesting to find out. I just heard there are 10TB of photos uploaded daily. Can anyone verify that? - gfurry

Wondering the same... it's a seminal site for the global community, such a part of the world zeitgeist. It even survived a Yahoo buyout, here's hoping it survives past Yahoo. - Robert Denton

I don't know- but would like to- but get this; I consider myself a somewhat "casual" user, but I have a flickr pro account. Personal photo collections are important. I suspect I'm not alone. - Doug Haslam from twhirl

This was posted earlier... http://twitter.com/allspaw... - Piers Karsenbarg

10TB daily. That is a "Wow!" - Robert Miller

according to this study, only 4% are pro accounts http://www.scribd.com/doc... . However, the sample is pretty much restricted ann would benefit from a broader survey. - Platini

Personally I have moved over to Ovi 100%. Having the ability to snap a shot and post right to the service with ease is top notch in my book. And free to boot. - Sloan Bowman

The free Flickr account has some major limitations (max 200 photos), so I think the numer is higher than you might think. - Mike Doeff

@Sloan Surely you can do that with flickr with most mobile phones? - Piers Karsenbarg

Name recognition has value -- I have never heard of Ovi. - Robert Miller

Yes, someone knows that. :P - Mistletoe Glen

LOL @ Glen! - Fa La La La Lindsay

Glen: would love it if someone shared the numbers. I'm working on a Fast Company column. - Robert Scoble

Never understood why they embraced video too. There are many other excellent sites out there to do that. - Ian May

Ian: it's hard to do advertisements in pictures. Video ads are a lot easier. - Robert Scoble

Probably many of the people at the bottom of this page could tell you: http://flickr.com/about/ Not sure why you'd trust numbers from anyone else. - Jason Wehmhoener

I'm sure the people at Yahoo would tell you not enough. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

The number and total size of all photos uploaded to Flickr pales in comparison to Facebook. - Ryan Craver

Is there a place where this can be validated? - Robert Miller

Perhaps a recently fired employee like George Oates? http://george08.blogspot.com/2008... - Paul Reynolds

Guessing the number will change quite a bit on February 1, 2009 when all at&t and Verizon Broadband users lose their free pro accounts - Brian O'Neil

I had a "free" flickr Pro account until Jan 1st through AT&T. Got an email that it will change. I'll have to pay $25 a year to keep it. That's a big fail in my book. They get enough of my money for very little. - Mary Wehrle

I kind of doubt anyone within Yahoo! would legitimately share that with you. I certainly don't know. - Mistletoe Glen

@Mary Wehrle My flickr Pro account through Verizon expires 1/1, too. I couldn't imagine being without it -- $25 is a small price to pay for what they offer. All of my best photos are there, full size, whenever I want them. - Karoli

Very unlikely that Yahoo would share this information. Transparency has never been Flickr's strong suit. That said, the number is probably very low somewhere in the 3-5% range I'd hazard as a guess. But many of the non Pro accounts are old abandoned accounts. Of active accounts the number would likely be higher and Pro accounts would certainly make up a much larger percentage of the total activity on the site. - Thomas Hawk

I think I counted a statistically relevant number of photos of the most recent randomly uploaded photos to the site and if memory serves correct about 50% of the uploads come from Pro accounts and 50% come from free accounts. - Thomas Hawk

I don't think that Flickr likely generates a meaningful amount of revenue or earnings for Yahoo. The potential has always been there for them to monetize it much more significantly of course but they haven't done the best job at that. It still is an *incredibly* important property though. Probably the most significant asset owned by Yahoo at this point and does represent the largest highly organized collection of photographs in the world. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas is right - of the number of *active* accounts (defined as people who comment and participate, and upload photos expecting to attract comments), most of them are pro. Just look at any discussion thread on the site and they'll all have the "pro" tag. I'm sure that they're dwarfed by the number of inactive accounts, but those inactive accounts don't cost Flickr much money. - Eric P

Oh and Yahoo completely botched the biggest opportunity to monetize it, which would have been by making it easy for Flickr members to sell prints or stock photography through the site. Flickr could have owned that market, but they never showed any interest in it - instead they farmed it out to third parties. Weird if you ask me. - Eric P

Eric, I agree, I never really understood leaving those opportunities on the table. - Jason Wehmhoener

RTFM: When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 100MB worth of photos each calendar month. This is a bandwidth limit, and not an amount of space that you have on Flickr servers. - Robert Denton

@denton seriously doubt their incoming bandwidth is even 5% of their outgoing. - Hayes Haugen

Yeah the 100MB limit always seemed more an attempt to stop people from uploading thousands of web pics in one go rather than any serious rationing of bandwidth. - Eric P

Flickr is not handling even the outsourcing of their stock business to Getty well. I've got a blog post coming on that soon. - Thomas Hawk