bobatkins Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 News from Yahoo: "Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr. In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo's Flickr service or various outside-photo storage sites, according to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. Outside sites include PhotoBucket -- the most popular online photo sharing service among users of social network sites like News Corp.'s MySpace -- or more conventional photo printing and storage site such as Kodak Gallery Shutterfly Inc. or Snapfish, he said. "Flickr will get top-billing, of course," Butterfield said in an interview late on Thursday about the plan to give users multiple alternatives. Butterfield and co-founder Caterina Fake, his wife, sold Flickr to Yahoo in 2005. Butterfield is now a director of product management at Yahoo." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Good riddance. It was **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabienpenso Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 it won't be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob_brown Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 It was only a metter of time. The scary part is what Microsoft will do to Flickr if today's market rumors are true about them buying Yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Yahoo rebuffed the offer: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168.html?mod=home_whats_news_us&apl=y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob_brown Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 That's not quite what that article says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 It did last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob_brown Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Previous purchase talks ended inconclusively, but they are apparently (sporadic and) ongoing. Google's got everyone else scared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_johnston Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 That is not what I received in a message to my address in Yahoo. They announced that they were expanding their site, and all current users would get almost double the space they have had... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob_brown Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Robert, how precisely does that preclude a merger or partnership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 Old joke (actually not so funny): Q: How do you know when a corporate spokesman is lying? A: You see his lips moving. In the corporate would, everything is rosy, nobody is stealing funds, nobody is ever going to be laid off, there's no possibility of a merger or a buyout and profits will likely be up next quarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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