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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