Yahoo buys Flickr

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, 2005 @10:50AM from the funny-announcement dept.

FLickLover writes "Yahoo is buying Flickr for an undisclosed amount. The rumors of the deal have been doing the rounds for weeks now. On the Flickr Blog Ludicorp folks are talking about the deal and how it impacts the community. "We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks! Woohoo! " This is the third high profile Blog/RSS related buyout of 2005. Live Journal was bought by Six Apart, while Ask Jeeves snapped up Bloglines." Update: 03/21 12:49 GMT by H : And my favorite comment on it comes from Ben Hyde's blog. Genius.

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Re:Flickr? by man_of_mr_e · 2005-03-20 11:03 · Score: 0, Troll

I hate to seem inflamatory, but it's pretty clearn from the article text that Flicr is an RSS Feed agragator. Is your inference engine broken?

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Re:what's a flickr program for your own server? by HyperChicken · 2005-03-20 11:57 · Score: 0, Troll

No, but that's the great part of open source! You get to add them yourself!!! See how wonderful that is? And the best part, if it's under the GPL, you'll have to give it all back to the community! See how open that force is?!

(Yes, yes. I know what I said about the GPL isn't 100% true)

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