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Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:49 AM PDT

Flickr is a great website. It is one of my favorite websites along with YouTube, specially when I want to pass some time on the internet. Almost everyone who is actively storing and looking up photographs online will be using Flickr if not at least would have tried a few times.

Google has Picassa web albums but nothing really comes close to beating Flickr.

Recently Flickr announced that the 5 billionth photo was uploaded on to their website.

You can view this image on Flickr here.

Some Interesting Trivia on Flickr

Flickr was born out of FlickrLive. It was basically for live sharing of images on multi-user chat rooms way back in 2004.
Flickr was bought over by Yahoo in 2005 leading to rumors that Flickr might be renamed as Yahoo Photos which already existed. Flickr was a better product and instead of it being assimilated into Yahoo Photos, Yahoo Photos was discontinued in 2007.
Flickr is widely regarded as the only big successful service which Yahoo can boast about.
Flickr is widely used by professional photographers and people photographs taken even in the US President's White House are released on Flickr without copyright.
Over 3000 images are uploaded on Flickr every minute.

A while ago I remember writing about YouTube completing 5 years. I think Flickr and YouTube are probably changing the way the web would be used 10 years from now.

What are your views on this? Do drop in your comments.

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Get a secure Two Step Authentication login for Google Apps

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 04:36 AM PDT

Google has announced that it will be launching its new security feature that is a-Two step authentication. When a user tries to login to an account he will be asked to enter an another key provided to him along with the usual user name and password. There is always a need for more secure login and what else can be better?

Activate the option feature from the settings page(this will be available to certain Google Apps customers first).
Type the username and password.
Enter the verification code.

The verification code can be obtained by your mobile phone. Google has built a ‘Google Authentication‘ application for certain mobiles only that is Android, iPhone, Blackberry. You need to link the mobile phone with your Google Account and start the application. It will give you a six digit verification code which you can enter on the screen that was asking you the verification code. The verification code can be sent to you by SMS or voice call also.

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This may take a couple of minutes and you get a secured log in with less chances of getting the account hacked or used for the wrong reasons. So anybody who wants to receive a code should be able to get it. The SMS and voice call alert option should be able to work on all kind of phones.

This is currently available only with Google Apps accounts.

What do you think about it? Do share your views with me.

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