Yahoo acquires flickr
Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr. Dave Winer nails it when he says “[...] it should have been the other way around”, that would be something to get excited about from a user pov, no? Apparently they’re going to increase storage and uploads on free accounts and lower prices on pro accounts which is a good thing i suppose. I’m a little nervous about this nonetheless, ever since they dropped pop3-access on free y!mail accounts i’m a little cautious with anything yahoo. Besides, when you look at what yahoo’s been doing by and large, it looks like they’re trying really hard to get it right, but hardly get it right. Their offerings always seem a little cramped and forced, nothing i’d enjoy using.
The funny thing with yahoo is, whenever i sign up for pretty much anything, yahoo’ll buy it within a year or two. First e-mail account with rocketmail, sure enough they’re acquired by yahoo soon afterwards. First webspace for a website with geocities, sure enough they’re acquired by yahoo soon afterwards. Now the same with flickr. Judging by history they’ll buy del.icio.us sooner than later, you heard it here first.
Anyone remember passport, microsoft’s failed attempt at a central authentication service? There was a time when i fully expected yahoo to take that role of a central authentication service, simply because they bought any web property worth registering for and consolidated accounts.
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