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Yahoo! lets you move your photos to Flickr and other services

Yahoo! Photos closing
As you may be aware, Yahoo! has come to the pretty logical conclusion that it's silly to continue maintaining both Flickr and Yahoo! Photos. Given Flickr's popularity, Yahoo! Photos will be closing down.

Yahoo! Photos just got a date on its death certificate: Sept 20th. Starting this week, Yahoo! Photos users will see a new option to move all of their photos over to Flickr with just one click.

Flickr's not for everyone, and it's nice to see that Yahoo! has provided some other options. You can also migrate your photos to other services such as Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish and Photobucket, download them or order an archive on CD.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Photo, Yahoo!, Social Software

New Yahoo! Photos now open to US users

Yahoo! Photos new version

The new Yahoo! Photos user interface is being made available to US users. The migration of accounts began tonight and is expected to take a while. It become available in a limited beta back in June and has now completed that phase.

The new version boasts of drag-and-drop features, tagging, dynamic albums, sharing, commenting and enhanced searching. Also included is the ability to download full-size photos without needing to be a premium services subscriber as it was before.

There are two features from the previous version which I feel are sorely lacking from the new. If I want to grant access to my photos to a friend, then I must send them an email explicitly sharing the photos or album with them. Before, I merely indicated which Y! IDs could see photos in an album. This could be a deal breaker for me and cause me to give Flickr another look. Secondly, the frame choices are cheesy at best and lack the feathering options (frosting the edges to create a soft edge instead of a hard edge to the photo). I used the feathering frame types many times and rarely used the other frames at all.

All-in-all, this is a tremendous jump forward for the Y! Photos property. Kudos to the team!

Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!

The new Yahoo! Photos beta reviewed

Yahoo! Photos beta

Over at our sister site The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog, our pal Joe Beaulaurier has written a short review of the new Yahoo! Photos. The new version of the service has all the trappings of Web 2.0, and has a lot in common with Yahoo!'s other photo-sharing site, Flickr, but Joe suggests that the new version of Yahoo! Photos will appeal more to those who want to share photos with their friends and family, rather than the entire world. Head over to TUYW to read Joe's full review.

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