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Flickr Pushes Yahoo Photos Out of the Picture


Flickr Pushes Yahoo Photos Out of the Picture
Yahoo has decided to close Yahoo Photos and make Flickr its only photo
management service
Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service) 07/05/2007 09:59:16
Computer World Australia
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/
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To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos
service in favour of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a
little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0
wave of Internet innovation.

"People are changing the way they use photography, and we have decided to
shift our focus accordingly. [Digital photography] is evolving from its
original purpose as a means to preserve memories into a social activity
that allows people to communicate and connect," a Yahoo spokeswoman said
via e-mail.

The move doesn't come as a complete surprise. Yahoo underwent a
significant reorganization in December to better focus its efforts. Weeks
before the reorganization, a scathing internal memo had leaked. It said
Yahoo had to stop spreading a thin layer of "peanut butter" across myriad
opportunities and instead focus on key areas. In that memo, Yahoo Photos
and Flickr were specifically highlighted as an overlap example.

Still, until now, Yahoo executives had maintained publicly that Yahoo was
big enough for the two services because they served two different types of
users.


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