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Yahoo! Photos to Shut Down

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the flickred-out dept.

prostoalex writes "Yahoo has finally made a decision regarding Yahoo! Photos vs. Flickr battle, and will be shutting down Yahoo! Photos by the fall of this year. Even though Yahoo! Photos currently maintains a higher share of Internet visits, Flickr growth convinced the company to maintain a single photo site from now on. Says USA Today: 'Stewart Butterfield, who co-founded Flickr in 2004 with wife Caterina Fake, says the move is a "validation" of the central idea of Flickr: that photos in the digital age are very different from a physical print. "We saw it as a means of communication and connecting with people," says Butterfield, Flickr's general manager. "People can take a picture and get immediate feedback from all over the world, and you can't do that with a printed photo."'"

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  1. Let's hope they'll get to keep Flickr then... by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, let's see if they'll get to keep Flickr then...

    http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN042225 3620070504?feedType=RSS

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    1. Re:Let's hope they'll get to keep Flickr then... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      A Yahoo is an uncultured or rough person, and comes from Swift's book Gulliver's Travels.

      Well you did ask...

  2. Re:But... by utnapistim · · Score: 2, Informative

    and they may have made the old users migrate.

    They did; I was one of the victims. The kept offering a "merge with your yahoo account" option, then they made it mandatory :(.

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  3. best is to shift to picasaweb! by freakxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    it offers 1 GB of total space and unlimited bandwidth...sufficient for an ordinary user....if needed more, create another picasaweb account and link one account with another using favorite feature of it...

    I used Flickr before but was annoyed much with their 20MB/month limit as 1280x1024 images were talking 600KB+....means, not more than 35 images a month...a big restriction...

  4. Re:Wonder how much money Flickr makes. by Mwongozi · · Score: 3, Informative

    You must have a Pro account. Free accounts display ads.

  5. Re:Photobucket 40% market share by asninn · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the GP is right. Sure, there are people on Flickr who post OMGfunny!!111 pictures and the like, but generally speaking, they seem to be in the minority (or at least it FEELS like they're in the minority).

    Also, Photobucket is really just that - a big bucket into which you dump stuff. Flickr, on the other hand, is all about sharing, exploring and interacting (I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true). I can see why Photobucket has a higher market share if all you want to do is dump your photos on a free hosting service so you can use them on bulletin boards, but that's not a "market" that Flickr is aiming at, anyway.

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