Flickr Becomes Flickr!
from the ok-saw-that-one-coming dept
Much like with the Bloglines acquisition a month ago, rumors surrounding a Flickr acquisition have been flying around for the past few weeks. Flickr playfully acknowledged these loose lips by announcing that "Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr". It is increasingly popular for search companies to purchase "hot" non-search startups (Looksmart-Furl, AskJeeves-Bloglines). And Google, the supposed search leader, continues to add a plethora of well-designed, non-search applications like Maps and Gmail. Is anyone else feeling strong pangs of deja vu? With startups being acquired for millions and VCs giving away money again -- maybe 2005 is the next 1999. The Aeron chair dealers are already salivating...
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
Flickr and photo services
So I went ahead and created my own. And I strongly believe it's a better way of "photo sharing". Opened it to the public (called Depicto, if anyone is interested).
An another strong conviction of mine - why do we have to surrender our private info in exchange for basic services on the web, like photo storage or webmail or whatever? Flickr has been good about people's info, but what's going to happen to my data once yahoo gets their paws on it? (for this reason, I insisted that depicto doesn't require accounts; so far my company went along with this...)
Am I wrong? Does my gmail have to be searched and indexed and adsensed in order to remain free? If my tiny company finances our little free image sharing toy through it's main business, surely yahoo and google can afford it.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Yahoo - Flickr deal
[ link to this | view in chronology ]