Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005, 2:48 am
Flickr Rests in Peace
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s some reader may already know, Flickr are among the most popular services for on-line photo sharing. A Yahoo takeover was announced yesterday.
This, in my humble opinion, will mark the end of ‘cleaner’, more decent photo galleries. It is only a matter of time until cherished Flickr will be ‘decorated’ with mugshots of Britney Spears and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. I am also worried that Yahoo will do to Flickr the same type of damage they did to Geocities, of which I was a member at the time. That acquisition, which goes back several years back, prevented me from making further changes to content and my pages were flooded with advertisements, from which Yahoo profited.
According to the sources of Slashdot:
This is the third high profile Blog/RSS related buyout of 2005. Live Journal was bought by Six Apart, while Ask Jeeves snapped up Bloglines.
