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Michael Arrington reports that Yahoo Photos will be shutting down in favor of Flickr, a competing photo sharing service which was acquired by Yahoo back in March 2005. Yahoo Photos has nearly 2 billion images stored on their server, compared to just 500 million in Flickr, but the socialized Flickr is growing faster than Yahoo Photos and co-incidentally exceeded Yahoo Photos by traffic, according to Comscore.
Current Yahoo! Photos users can conveniently export their photos to Flickr with a one click process, but Yahoo won’t force users to move their photos to Flickr, instead users will be given the option to choosing other photo sharing such as Photobucket, Snapfish, Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly. Alternatively, Yahoo! Photos users can download original photos in full size or order prints and CD at a discounted price.
Flickr cofounder, Stewart Butterfield has confirmed that Flickr will add video sharing capabilities in the near future. It would be really interesting to see video sharing in Flickr. Usually, we see big companies acquire small startups with an intention of killing competition, but Yahoo made the best out of Flickr!
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wrote, on May 4th, 2007
This is really Good news. Flickr ROCKS!!!
wrote, on May 4th, 2007
Guess Yahoo! wants to free some server load there. And think of the chaos of promoting 2 products of the same niche. Anyway, I think Flickr really deserved to live since its more fun than plain old Yahoo! Photos.
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
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wrote, on May 6th, 2007
Flickr has been a winner. There is no way that Yahoo Photos would win the shut down battle against Flickr.
Besides, Y! Photo’s market share was coming down. Read this article: http://www.techzilo.com/micros.....oo-photos/
wrote, on May 7th, 2007
Flickr is in my opinion by far more convenient and straightforward. And hey, no need to compete here, as Flickr is a Yahoo company, bought in order to enhance their presence in the filed, and somehow replace or radically enhance their former product.
wrote, on May 7th, 2007
I’m not surprized*
Flickr is still thee Shining Light of the Web2.0 Universe*
MySpace + Facebook + YouTube etc. are a Joke compared to Flickr************
;))
wrote, on May 9th, 2007
Had to happen eventually, I guess, considering how Flickr is so much of a stronger brand at the moment than Yahoo Photos.
What should be interesting is the sheer logistics (albeit digital) of moving 2 billion images to alternate online photo storage. Even at a ridiculously low estimate of an average 20kb per image, that’s around 40,000 gigabytes.
wrote, on June 15th, 2007
[...] month, Yahoo had announced that they will shutdown Yahoo Photos for the benefit of Flickr. They said that they whole process [...]