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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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20 March 2005 - 10:12 pm
The rumors that ran rampant through the "blogosphere" a few weeks ago appear to be true: flickr has been acquired by yahoo. The flickr folks are saying all the right things about this acquisition, including that "[p]ro account holders will get super mega bonuses, to be announced soon." I'm a big fan of super mega bonuses, so this is good news. They also threw a bone to the normal users by announcing that "[f]ree accounts will have more storage and uploads -- pro accounts too -- AND they'll be cheaper." The wording on this is a bit ambiguous, but if I had a free account I'd probably be expecting a check in the mail.
FYI, they say that flickr will remain a separate entity from yahoo photos, which is certainly a good thing.
Posted by on 20 March 2005 at 10:02 PM
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I love the flickr, but am wary of the yahoo. I hope this doesn't ruin a truly amazing development team. Also, I hope that flickr will finally integrate direct prints from their site.
Posted by Charlie on 21 March 2005 - 12:57 AM
A comment on Metafilter makes me feel pretty bad about the whole deal:
"Chill out folks, Yahoo's handling of Geocities way back when should put everyone at ease." - alan
Posted by Charlie on 21 March 2005 - 1:06 AM
I think flickr announced last week that they had inked a deal with ex-prints to allow users to purchase prints from their site. Here's the press release and here's the discussion on flickr about the print service. Note the starred comments from flickr staff: despite the deal they aren't launching print services yet.
As to yahoo iteself, I too am wary. Perhaps the ludicorp people built some protection into their purchase agreement? Noevertheless, I think we can probably all expect some ads on the site in the near future.
Posted by david on 21 March 2005 - 8:28 AM