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Yahoo gets smart, kills Yahoo Photos

by Mathew on May 4, 2007 · 2 comments

According to Mike Arrington — who interrupted his dinner with Brad Garlinghouse of Yahoo and Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield to do a blog post about it — Yahoo is effectively closing the doors on its photo service and migrating everyone either to Flickr or to another online photo service of their choice (Photobucket, Webshots, Snapfish, [...]

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Flickr faithful foam over faulty feature

by Mathew on January 31, 2007 · 7 comments

It’s been like watching a pot bubble over on the stove today, watching the pissed-off Flickr fans — including prominent blogger and Zooomr CEO Thomas Hawk — venting about having to switch to a Yahoo login. A simple enough thing, right? Stop using the Flickr login and start using a Yahoo one. I did it [...]

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Flickr slices and dices its data

by Mathew on November 21, 2006 · 2 comments

My friend Paul Kedrosky notes that Flickr has introduced something interesting (and here I was writing just a few posts ago that Yahoo hadn’t really done anything since buying the photo site) with its aggregated data on what cameras its registered members use. Paul (and Tim) believe that data is “the new Intel inside,” and [...]

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Museum uses Flickr and YouTube

by Mathew on October 14, 2006 · 2 comments

New York’s Museum of Modern art obviously likes to live up to its name, and what could be more modern than YouTube? According to a piece in the Wall Street Journal (reg. required) this weekend, the museum is using YouTube visitors to help curate an upcoming video collection. According to the story: MoMA solicited videos [...]

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Is Photobucket Web 2.0?

by Mathew on June 29, 2006 · 2 comments

I’ve been meaning to blog about something for a few days now, but various events in my personal life (including a move to a new house and a sick family member) have kept me from doing so. The something I wanted to blog about was a post by LeeAnn Prescott of the Web-tracking firm Hitwise, [...]

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