One of Brad Garlinghouse's 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' consolidation wishes is coming true, in a way, as Yahoo will be closing down its Photos service in favor of Flickr.
Yahoo Photos. Starting today, Yahoo would begin taking steps to shut down the service and migrate users to other places.
While most in the tech world will assume it's just a matter of switching from Yahoo Photos to Flickr, TechCrunch about the change, as he heard about it from Garlinghouse and Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield; the latter talked about the migration options for Yahoo Photos users, whether it is to Flickr or other services:
Most of these services have built special tools to transition users, Butterfield said. Users will also be able to download full sized original photos, or order CDs and prints at a discount to the normal price. “We have no interest in forcing anyone to switch to Flickr” Butterfield said. “We want happy users.” Yahoo Photos is currently the largest photo sharing site on the Internet, with around 2 billion stored photos.
Flickr, by comparison, has around 500 million photos. But Flickr is also growing much faster than Yahoo photos and coincidentally has just exceeded Yahoo! Photos in traffic, according to Comscore.
This could signal Yahoo is continuing a consolidation strategy that would merge or eliminate some of their duplicate services, and allow them to focus on the star performers in the company. They recently integrated
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