SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is shutting down Yahoo Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said.
I thought it was odd that flickr became one the toolbar button links but the address didn't turn into flickr.yahoo.com. I guess that will change soon. I hope also that us at&t yahoo dsl folk get upgraded for free.
What happens to all the other yahoo photos related services?
Yahoo's move follows the explosive surge in growth by PhotoBucket, an independent photo storage site based in Palo Alto, California, from a quarter of the market a year ago to around 40 percent last month, according to Hitwise Inc. data.
In the same period, Yahoo Photos' share has been cut two- to three times over to around 5.8 percent of the U.S. market. Flickr, meanwhile, has grown to 4.5 percent, up from 3.7 percent, according to Hitwise U.S. Web audience data.
Yahoo continued to support both Photos and Flickr over the past two years, reflecting the different audiences of the two sites.
Yahoo Photos is a more conventional photo-finishing site, full of family snapshots, while Flickr has attracted a passionate fan base of amateur and professional photographers who use the site to share digital photos online, and for whom printing is largely an afterthought.
Flickr is the place I use for photos to add to my stories. Yahoo photos is a very confusing site. Oh crap the go the nudes. And photobucket is place I go find videos of masturbating women. No, I am not talking about pornography but actual ladies either just having ago or posting videos for their significant others in their lives.
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