Comments on: Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo. Now What?

By: Online Photo Albums: Tip For Digital Photographers | PCMech

Online Photo Albums: Tip For Digital Photographers | PCMech — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:12:12 +0000

[...] If something happened to Flickr, my entire public gallery would be gone. And some were left thinking about this with some of the recent developments over at Yahoo. The prospect, although not very likely, of Flickr someday going away crossed people’s minds. [...]

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:32:53 +0000

He’s either insane or a metallurgist: he can’t be both. Third possibility: a bit of a jokester.

By: Blog-Her » Goodbye to Flickr, Etc.

Blog-Her » Goodbye to Flickr, Etc. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:02:42 +0000

[...] — hell, it even offers an application to help you upload and download your photographs. But the departure of two of Flickr’s founding members got me thinking more and more about back [...]

By: What Is The Future of Yahoo? » PCMech

What Is The Future of Yahoo? » PCMech — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:08:02 +0000

[...] on it’s own. Then we hear about several members of the Yahoo management leaving the company, including the founders of Flickr, the founder of Del.icio.us and [...]

By: Dave Liesse

Dave Liesse — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:30:21 +0000

If Microsoft had succeeded in buying Yahoo, it’s practically a given that Flickr would have changed, probably not for the better. From my standpoint, I’m pretty sure the free fantasy sports would have disappeared, as well, and in many respects the Yahoo versions are superior to those on other sites. Speaking as a user of some Yahoo services (but not email and the like), I’m glad the buyout didn’t take place (and the fact that it infuriates Carl Icahn is just icing on the cake).

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:35:45 +0000

I have been watching Flickr out of the corner of my eye for some time; and recently I have been very tempted to try them out. (I had a friend at college called Flicker; and was tempted to try her out more than once; but never succumbed to temptation in the end. ( – Enough gay fantasy.)) Now with this fiasco my wariness appears to have been wise. (I jumped in to Facebook rather too soon and nearly got egg on my face one way or another – Or should that read “Egg on my Facebook”?(To clarify; IMHO Facebook is a fickle waste-of-time that could and should be spent doing something to make onesself money rather than make Facebook’s coffers larger and kid onesself that one has loads of “friends”))

In my opinion both Flickr and Yahoo will never recover unless Yahoo return somehow to the Microhoo table: Even then Flickr could still end up the victim of its own commercial impetuousness.