Flickr Windows Phone 7 App: Yahoo Leveraged Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform

In a very interesting move we have seen Yahoo develop a native Flickr app for Windows Phone 7 by leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

The app connects Flickr data with Windows Azure via an API. Using Windows Azure, Yahoo is able to optimize the images for the Windows 7 environments and on the Windows Phone 7 devices.

According to Microsoft:

Windows Azure Storage is used to manage the synchronization of data. By exposing the interface to this new functionality using RESTful services, Flickr can readily extend this functionality across a diversity of other platforms and devices.

The Flickr app will be available January 31.