Yahoo And Flickr: Photosharing Made Easy

This past weekend, Jeremy Zawodny confirmed what many have been speculating about for a little while now: Yahoo has or is purchasing Flickr, the digital image sharing web presence.

Robert Scoble yesterday indicated as much when he asked how much Yahoo gave to acquire Flickr. Reaction the Yahoo/Flickr Flickr Central, Flickr's comments section. Besides the expected disappointment from a few users who like their hobby sites unspoiled by corporate hands, reaction was quite positive. Because of the community aspect of Yahoo's services, many see the partnership/acquisition as a good match-up. As expected, the blogosphere's reaction was swift, and in this case, quite positive as well: Yahoo Buys Flickr Jeremy Zawodny The first time I used Flickr, I knew it was something different and something important. It took me a while to figure out and try to articulate exactly what that was, but I took my first swipe back in September when I called it a Next Generation Web Service. In that posting, I said: Flickr has been on my radar for a while now, but I only recently began to start playing with it. I'm impressed as hell. After my first 10 minutes of playing with it, I found myself thinking "why don't we build stuff like this at Yahoo?" In other words, I realized that we could probably learn a lot from this when it comes to building next generation applications at Yahoo. (Whether or not we do is a whole separate topic of discussion.) Flickr has the potential to set the new standard for on-line photo sharing, management, etc. Why? Jeremy, I'm jealous. I wish Flickr were coming to Redmond instead of going to Silicon Valley. World Trade Center and surroundings. I've uploaded those photos to view them as a slideshow. Contrast these views with the Read the rest of the article. Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for latest search news.