Flickr has finally been acquired by Yahoo! as explaned in this blog entry on the flickr blog.

I’m still unsure what to think. I know Yahoo! does some good shit for the interweb, but on the other hand…they are the Man.

A small note to the flickr people: DONT LET IT DIE!

17 comments on “Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr”

1. On March 21st, 2005  Stewart said:

   It won’t die :)

   But it will get better faster … and faster generally. And have better search. And many other good things.

2. On March 21st, 2005  Darren said:

   Awesome!

   Its been such a treat watching it grow and mature into a killer app.

   Once again - good work Ludicorp!

3. On March 21st, 2005  Sean said:

   I don’t have a problem with big companies aquiring small companies, Cisco for example has no R&D budget, they simply buy the smaller, nimbler startup companies they need. It’s a good business model because Cisco understands the startup innovation dynamic, and it isn’t something they can reproduce in-house. But please tell me one thing Yahoo has aquired that has got better.

4. On March 22nd, 2005  Ted Maul said:

   Yahoo! Search - used to suck, now it actually works, that came through acquisitions.

5. On March 26th, 2005  Joshua Estrin said:

   let s wait and see what happens to soon to judge this could be a new concept in success and the strategy may make the gola, better customer service just what we need.

   A new company that is smart and heathy and more feasible to make success stick

6. On March 27th, 2005  Mike said:

   Great ! Money opportunity. .. Great inspiration for small start up companies X company will buy you out when you get very popular and your technology get’s brilliant.

7. On March 28th, 2005  Joshua Estrin said:

   While it is true the Yahoo track record of acquisitions may not have shown the best outcomes and success, the proof is in the proof, it remaines the number one rated website so smart or healthy or neither or both they continue to analyze the direction of the market and brand, rebrand and expand

8. On March 29th, 2005  Uris said:

   I don’t care for the new Yahoo format. I wonder if others feel the same. I wonder if other people find the new format difficult to use.

9. On March 29th, 2005  Darren said:

   There was an interesting link in slashdot this morning about Yahoo fighting back against google…worth checking that one out.

10. On March 29th, 2005  Joshua Estrin said:

    The new format is a bit….well NEW so far I can t decide if I like it or not either we shall see if it is a success or not

11. On April 5th, 2005  Kyril said:

    Have to vent - can’t figure out the reason why all these photo album services are sorely lacking in one area - the actual “sharing” of pics. Sure, they all say they have it, but it’s rudimentary, as in the case of Flickr, which is by far the best. Others are just plain bad, as in Picasa Hello. Am I alone in that? Am I missing something?
    So I went ahead and created my own. And I strongly believe it’s a better way of “photo sharing”. Opened it to the public (called Depicto, if anyone is interested).
    An another strong conviction of mine - why do we have to surrender our private info in exchange for basic services on the web, like photo storage or webmail or whatever? Flickr has been good about people’s info, but what’s going to happen to my data once yahoo gets their paws on it? (for this reason, I insisted that depicto doesn’t require accounts; so far my company went along with this…)
    Am I wrong? Does my gmail have to be searched and indexed and adsensed in order to remain free? If my tiny company finances our little free image sharing toy through it’s main business, surely yahoo and google can afford it.
    There, I feel better

12. On April 16th, 2005  jasvir said:

    360.yahoo beta (which also has photo share) is still in building process. to register one has to be invited….do the users of flickr gets the invitation to open a 360.yahoo account….
    any comments:)

13. On August 3rd, 2005  darmowe zdjecia said:

    Nice site it’s very interesting site! your site is fantastic.

14. On August 3rd, 2005  seks filmy said:

    Nice site it’s very interesting site! your site is fantastic blalala.

15. On August 3rd, 2005  ibiza said:

    ibiza

16. On August 3rd, 2005  darmowa erotyka said:

    Have to vent - can’t figure out the reason why all these photo album services are sorely lacking in one area - the actual “sharing” of pics. Sure, they all say they have it, but it’s rudimentary, as in the case of Flickr, which is by far the best. Others are just plain bad, as in Picasa Hello. Am I alone in that? Am I missing something?
    So I went ahead and created my own. And I strongly believe it’s a better way of “photo sharing”. Opened it to the public (called Depicto, if anyone is interested).

17. On September 3rd, 2005  anna mucha nago said:

    An another strong conviction of mine - why do we have to surrender our private info in exchange for basic services on the web, like photo storage or webmail or whatever? Flickr has been good about people’s info, but what’s going to happen to my data once yahoo gets their paws on it? (for this reason, I insisted that depicto doesn’t require accounts; so far my company went along with this…)
    Am I wrong? Does my gmail have to be searched and indexed and adsensed in order to remain free? If my tiny company finances our little free image sharing toy through it’s main business, surely yahoo and google can afford it.
    There, I feel better

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