Flickr has announced a new stats tracking feature that allows pro members to keep track of how many people are looking at your images, who's linking to them, what search queries leading people to your images and more.
The average user probably doesn't care about such things, which is presumably why Flickr has limited things to pro subscribers ($25/year), but given that quite a few Flickr users are professional photographers and love to get any feedback they can, this should give you one more way to judge which images are working and which aren't.
You'll need to activate the stats tracking and it'll take 24 hours to show up in your account, but once it does you'll get all the data for the last month, plus everything going forward. Your Flickr Stats are updated once a day and thankfully, exclude your own views.
Less useful is the fact that images viewed outside of Flickr aren't counted (even if they're served from the Flickr farm). In other words, if you post an image on your blog and someone Diggs it, those page views won't show up in your Flicker stats, nor will those generated by the new Yahoo WordPress plug-in (check out Google Analytics if you want to track things on your own domain).
Flickr has also announced a new version of its photo uploading software for Mac and Windows. Version 3 of the Flickr Uploader features drag-and-drop ordering, an offline mode, and the ability to work with a second batch of photos while the first uploads in the background. Also worth noting is that new uploader is licensed under the GPL, which means a Linux port may soon be available.
Between the two releases I've now got a way to upload even more photos which, starting tomorrow, I'll be able to confirm no one else is looking at.
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