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Yahoo! Photos
by Barb Dybwad Jul 1st 2005 at 4:32PM
It's a good time for photo sharing on ye olde interwebs. If you're hungry for community, check Flickr. If you're hungry for commercial printing services and mobile access to your photo collection, check Yahoo's unlimited storage offering. From within the Yahoo! Photos interface you can order prints, do some simple photo editing, and share your photos in a number of different ways: via Yahoo! Messenger, email, or via your cellphone: save all your cameraphone pics to Yahoo! Photos, access your photo albums and browse your friends' albums, and create slideshows on your mobile. Personally, I can't see myself ever ordering any prints when I can just grab some photo paper and do it myself, but the anywhere access to my photo collection via my phone -- now that's got my ears, or rather my eyes, perked.
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Steven said 7:46PM on 8-15-2005
Yahoo is killing flickr. Where are all the improvements? Maybe Google should've bought flickr instead.
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Barb Dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
It does seem like Yahoo is tapping the talent of the Flickr team in the development of Yahoo products -- e.g. it looks like Caterina Fake at least is involved in their new My Web 2.0 social search offering. Part of me does think it would be cool if the resources were flowing more towards Flickr but then again, I personally don't have any huge complaints with Flickr as it stands right now. And on the other hand, I'm sort of starting to get more excited about Yahoo's offerings, knowing the Flickr team is having a hand in some of it. Maybe over time we'll see a bit more balance come into the equation, hopefully.
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ronenosity said 8:30PM on 7-03-2005
If you look at the total package of offerings by yahoo you can really see some amazing projects. the thing that is needed is to bring them together better. The new MyWeb is really a step in that direction. I just wish it would all happen faster/
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Barb Dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
I agree with you -- Yahoo is stepping into a lot of areas that are individually hot, and once all of those things are integrated in some seamless way... look out, Google! There's a certain synergy that happens from combining the value of Yahoo 360 + My Web 2.0, for example, that is greater than the sum of the individual systems...
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Stewart said 1:52AM on 7-07-2005
You're a little late for the party here :)
Yahoo! Photos launched over five years ago. Check it out:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://photos.yahoo.com
2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000520033949/http://photos.yahoo.com/
2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010202074200/photos.yahoo.com/
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020123010925/http://photos.yahoo.com/
2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207072753/photos.yahoo.com/
Etc.
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Barb Dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
Hmmm, I always knew my fashionable lateness would get me into trouble someday. Thanks, Stewart -- I hereby admit to being completely duped by Yahoo's invite to the service I received that day, having never noticed it before + PR language = mistaking old for new. Post modified. Disaster averted. And the party rages on! ;)
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