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[[blog.forret.com] - music media IT technology belgium brussels] When I checked the image URLs that I was using and the ones that Flickr currently uses, I saw they had changed, and the transition was not flawless (at that point). Where each image used to reside on one of the photosXX.flickr.com servers, they now have the URL http://static.flickr.com/XX/...

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