Today we’re announcing an update to our share functionality to help you make Flickr the hub for your photos on the Internet. If you’re anything like us, you probably have multiple places out there on the Internet where you express yourself. Maybe you use Facebook to connect to your college friends, Twitter for people who share your interests, or your blog as your megaphone to the world. The changes we’re releasing today make it easier to upload once to Flickr and get your photos out to other places you showcase your photos on the web!

Here are some of the features we’re introducing:

• Easier access to share functionality -We’ve integrated options to share your photos as a key part of the photo page, making it easier for you to access and get your photos out to the places you want.
  
  
• Previously you could only share your photostreams, sets and groups to your friends and family via email. Now you’ll be able to share those same things to all supported social destinations as well. Stay tuned as we continue to make improvements that allow you to share even more of your life on Flickr!
• We’ve improved flexibility of sharing to Facebook so you can now selectively share individual photos, your sets, groups or photostream. You can also share non-public content with your Facebook friends, so that they can see your latest weekend trip photos without making them public on Flickr. And of course, you can always set up your account so that you automatically share any public uploads directly to your Facebook feed.
• Signed-out users can now also share public and safe photos they see on Flickr directly to their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
• We’ve added Tumblr as a share destination and are retiring native support of some existing blogs (you can always check out the app garden for other ways to get your photos out there on the internet!).

Sakura photos from mrhayata, man_maru, samyaoo 山姆搖, tearecipe2, somaruha, Muhammad+, raxcat, aloalo*, and Takahiro Yamamoto.

E is for Echidna

Photos from ╰⊰⊹✿Jules✿⊹⊱╮, lcriding – On & Off a lot, mikebrown3064, Nuytsia@Tas, 5348 Franco- heart with japan, 666philly ( on downtime..) und missnoma … 2006.

Today, Leonard Nimoy, only four days after fellow actor and friend William Shatner, celebrates his 80th birthday. We want to congratulate them both and thank them for years of entertainment, boldly going where no man had gone before as Mr. Spock and Captain James T. Kirk respectively, starting an era of Star Trek. May they both live long and prosper.

Photos from preloc and kanar, ShyNloc, Mark Berry, and Legoagogo.

Illustrations from Rene Enriquez, Kasia Matyjaszek, wil_freeborn, and vicandwilliam.

Inspired by Chasing Mary Poppins. Photos from SARAH LEE, beth retro, lauralani, ps70 …,,.,.,, shaari., leonablanca, and silkegb.

We’ve made some changes to the search box to let you search everyone’s photos, your contacts, and Flickr pages at the same time!

The search box now searches Everyone’s Uploads on Flickr by default on all pages. After you start typing you can search for photos, or use the new! search menu that pops up to let you quickly navigate to a contact’s photostream or to a relevant page on Flickr like Updates from Your Contacts, Your Sets, Flickr Groups, etc. You can jump to nearly any page on Flickr by typing just the first few letters of its name.

After combing through a small mountain of anonymous search logs—light reading for our engineers—we noticed that most people on Flickr prefer to include all available images in their searches. We’ve added an extra search box on group pages that searches only the group. When doing a search you can also use “More search types” to instead search Your photostream, the photostream you are viewing, Groups, or Flickr Members.

Give it a shot! If you find any bugs or have feedback please let us know in this forum thread.

Adorable puppy photo by gainesp2003.

Knut the polar bear, who became a global media sensation as a cub after being rejected by his mother and reared by hand, died suddenly for unexplained reasons, the Berlin Zoo said. — Yahoo! News

You can take a walk back memory lane in our search.

Photos from maapy, arthurchengjca, <ChristiaN/>, oceantemple, golli43, and martin.jordan.

Photos of the souvenir shops alongside Canal Grande in Venice at closing time. From i like it! what is it?‘s set Closing time.

During the full moon on March 19th 2011 the moon was only 221,565 miles (356,575 kilometers) away. The closest it’s been in almost 20 years. It appeared 14 percent bigger and 30% brighter than usual. As of this writing, Flickr members have uploaded more than 3,700 pictures of it and the night isn’t even over!

Photos from BaubCat , peterjbailey, chris_crssd, Alix King, red_lion, unifiedphoto, and Anthony Beyga.