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Yahoo! Photos to Shut Down
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."'"
I was wondering how they were going to merge Yahoo photos with flickr, and was expecting and uglier merger. Throwing out Yahoo photos is a much nicer solution.
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Is that her real name? That must be confusing.
...will I have to create yet another account for Flickr or will my Yahoo login work?
They have other revenue streams too of course, but I can't get help get the feeling that Flickr gets Yahoo! more good PR than money.
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From TFA, it's interesting to note that Photobucket has 40% market share, at least in terms of hits (as of Apr 2007). Even if you add up Yahoo Photos and Flickr, that's 10.2%.
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If you take the time to log into yahoo photos, you'll see they are about to roll out a new version, which is not Flickr. CNet news.com has reviewd the new site, and they don't think it looks like yahoo is shutting photos down: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6084601-7.html
Never mind, that article is almost a year old. Should have RTFD before posting...
OK, let's see if they'll get to keep Flickr then...
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yay for not reading the post directly above the one you replied to, gp was referring to the link http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6084601-7.html being nearly a year old [June-2006].
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In which case it's already autumn and the site's still operating.
Everything. Yahoo! Photos vs Flickr. Google Video vs YouTube. Experience shows that website names cannot be straightforward, clear and simple, it must be "cutesypoo" and somewhat cryptic to work today.
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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...
Pretty soon Yahoo is going to be just a place to troll for fat chicks on Yahoo Personals.....hope that doesn't go away!!
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The fall of this year already began on March 21.
I love using photobucket....it has almost limitless space. Or tinypic. There are so many good options out there. Any others?
Does anyone still remember when the same thing happened with eGroups and Yahoo! Groups?
I personally use target to print some of my photos (the quality is better than I thought it'd be and faster than because you can pick it up.) Target photo is tied into Yahoo photos...I wonder what will happen. Flickr already uses its own printing service, so maybe we'll have two choices?
This is the real first post. Don't be taken in by that delinquent.
This kind of makes me sad. Not that I ever really trusted them, but as a user the ONLY thing I really really need is a continuity of service.
It would just be nice to know that if I happen to forget about the service for a year or two and then happen to need it, it's there--ready to serve those pictures that you uploaded years ago.
Paid services are worse because any accidental lapse in payments and your photos all drop into the bit bucket. I know that sounds like a silly worry, but when you are talking about long-term continuity (across generations, possibly), at some point there is going to be a payment screwup of some sort.
Doing it yourself is probably the worst case. Eventually a server crashes or screws up and you don't reload it, also--what a waste to leave a server running 24/7 for years just in case you need to review a picture!
This is most significant with pictures. Many people consider the pictures of their family among their most treasured possessions. You could just spam all the services with all your pictures, but that has a bunch of problems. They all use different upload methods and most take a huge amount of manual labor--Also many have limits so you can't really just blindly upload all your pictures anyway.
Of course, I'm complaining about a "Free" service that I'd use rarely, so I realize I have not right to demand, but to see a site that thousands of people have trusted to hold memories--people that my not even check back before the site closes--makes me a little sad.
Oh, I see now..if you're not a member of the elite 'Clique' who posts here you either get no points or modded down to -1 so your rep is fucked from the get go. Go fuck yourself with an ISA bus card.
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