Posts Tagged with ‘Flickr’

There’s a very thought-provoking article in the Guardian today about the dangers of cloud computing that resulted in quite an animated discussion in the blogosphere making people forget the tech companies stock valuations for a moment and try to figure out if we are really locking ourselves up in a trap of the much-hyped cloud computing.
True, cloud computing is obviously one of the most hyped terms these days and everyone thinks it is kind of hip and cool to rely [...]

Today in Yahoo’s headquarters the management of the company has presented to journalists their plan to revamp some of Yahoo properties with a focus on adding third-party content. The idea is that such content will make Yahoo more of a destination to users and will improve the situation where visitors use Yahoo as a springboard to jump to other sites in virtually no time.
The sites to experience the redesign include Yahoo homepage, Search page, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Music, and Yahoo [...]

Yesterday Flickr announced a redesign to a user’s homepage that is intended to give more place to social features of Flickr and provide some more customization opportunities. The explanation offered is very simple - there are so many things you can do on Flickr and some of the activities may stay completely unnoticed unless they are pushed at you, like the activity in the groups you belong to.
Flickr does not change anything about the look and feel of the site [...]

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful.
People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if something unexpected happens to your browser. But there are some pages bookmarked that are simply beyond my understanding. Like when you want to do a search [...]

Now we hear the news that Yahoo Mash will be closed some time today. It has been announced by Yahoo! in an email all the users of the social network have received. In the email Yahoo! Team thanks everyone for participating in the beta test of the social network and invites to copy all the content we may want to keep to a separate document. I don’t have any content over there anyway and I don’t really think many users [...]

For whatever reason, when I read that a select few Flickr users will be able to license their photos through Getty, the Black Eyed Peas song "Where is the Love?" came to mind — not because I believe aspiring professional photographers who participate in the Flickr community have a particular affinity for the BEPs, but because the whole proposal has a sort of Willy Wonka's golden ticket air to it that rubs me the wrong way. Though [...]

It seems from watching my news feeds that company executives from Yahoo and its properties are fleeing as fast as they can, like rats from a sinking ship. You can hardly blame them. Yahoo has been a shining example of what not to do the past few months - hardly confidence inspiring.
The two most recent departees are Flickr 's founders Catrina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. Flickr being one of my favorite of Yahoo' s cool properties, the news got my [...]

Was it only last month that we got news that Yahoo's BrowserPlus had risen from the dead? It seems like it was ages ago, but what with the ongoing MicroHoo tug-of-war and all the other rally-the-troops look-we've-still-got-it developments this year (Yahoo Buzz, Shine), they are all starting to run together.
At any rate, Yahoo must have felt jealous over all the attention being given to all the other cool releases and conference news being broadcast, and decided to give us a [...]

Yahoo is turning out to be the Hillary Clinton of the web these days: running a campaign to save itself that is on its last legs and refusing to stand down and let the more stable web candidates win. It doesn't help matters that it is being pursued in the most schizophrenic manner possible by Microsoft, or that its own shareholders have long since had it with the shenanigans on both sides.
It is hard not to grow increasingly bored [...]