To eliminate overlap in services , Yahoo will close itsYahoo Photosservice in favor of photo divvy up darlingFlickr , acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of cyberspace origination .
“ People are alter the way they habituate photography , and we have decided to shift our focus consequently . [ Digital photography ] is germinate from its original purpose as a means to save retentiveness into a societal activity that allow people to communicate and connect , ” a Yahoo spokeswoman say via e - chain armour .
The move does n’t come as a stark surprise . Yahoo underwent a significant reorganization in December to better focus its effort . Weeks before the reorganization , a vituperative internal memo had leak . It read Yahoo had to block spreading a thin bed of “ peanut butter ” across innumerable opportunities and alternatively focus on primal areas . In that memo , Yahoo Photos and Flickr were specifically highlighted as an overlap example .
Still , until now , Yahoo administrator had maintained publically that Yahoo was magnanimous enough for the two services because they served two different eccentric of users . In March , Flickr co - founder and general manager Stewart Butterfield tell IDG News Service that there are rudimentary deviation in the way user of Flickr and Yahoo Photos roleplay online .
“ It ’s not like youthful people use Flickr and old citizenry use Yahoo Photos . The old age range is actually pretty standardized . It ’s more about how the great unwashed finger about sharing their biography online and even more just about how into the Internet people are . The Flickr substance abuser is more concerned in interacting , in the biotic community aspects , ” he said .
Flickr had pioneered these sharing and tagging features in 2004 , and rapidly became a poster child for the WWW 2.0 era of community - point entanglement sites that foster user interaction , contributions and involution . It revolutionise online photo land site and remains the comprehend innovation loss leader in this market place . It also has the dubious note of jump the drift of key out Internet startups with names that omit their final vowel and end in “ r. ”
Yahoo launched Yahoo Photos in 2000 and assume Flickr in March 2005 . Although Flickr is look at the hipper , more technically innovative one , Yahoo Photos has more monthly unique visitant with 31.1 million to Flickr ’s 28.4 million , agree to comScore Networks . Flickr has almost 8 million register extremity and 485 million photograph .
The response of Yahoo Photos users stay on to be seen . Yahoo will keep the service useable for another three months and will provide migration divine service to Flickr as well as to third - party services like Shutterfly , Kodak Gallery , Snapfish and Photobucket . As an incentive , users who choose Flickr will get a costless three - month subscription to its paid membership level .
