Shutterbugs in Taiwan will have the chance to officially participate in the Flickr Photo Walk for the first time on Sunday, as the popular photo-sharing Web site celebrates its 10th anniversary.
About 80 Flickr users in Taipei have registered to take part in the worldwide campaign to take pictures of 160-year-old buildings at Dadaocheng (大稻埕) in Taipei, said Tenz Shih (施典志), the customer care operations manager for the Asia-Pacific region at Yahoo Inc, Flickr’s parent company.
“To make our operations in Taiwan more localized, we are thinking about not only ways to run an online community, but also how to create face-to-face opportunities for these online users,” Shih said.
This year’s Photo Walk is expected to mobilize people in 60 cities across 40 countries to congregate at local points of interest and take pictures of the sites, according to Flickr.
The Web site launched its first Taiwan campaign in August last year, when it teamed up with the Tourism Bureau to showcase the nation’s scenery and culture and set up a local customer service center.
Taiwanese users ranked eighth worldwide for Flickr tags last year, trailing photographers in Japan, the US, France, Italy, the UK, Germany and Australia, while China and India were ranked ninth and 10th respectively.
Flickr, which launched a revamped version of its site in May last year featuring more storage space and enhanced mobile support, now has more than 92 million registered users worldwide who have contributed nearly 10 billion photos to the site.
On April 18, Flickr launched another revamp of its mobile app that allows users to record up to 30 seconds of high-definition video footage using the company’s new live filters.
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