March 21, 2005
Yahoo flicks Flickr
Whoa !! Flickr was clearly a Google animal and they missed the bus. Yahoo announced that it bought Flickr, few hours back. With the announcement of Yahoo 360, it was expected that Yahoo might acquire few small players, whose application, Yahoo might integrate into blogging/social networking utility, Yahoo 360.
Flickr was one of those software applications that was clearly an offshoot in this clumsily imitative internet world. It was certainly a killer app for photo blogs just like delicious was for bookmarks. There were talks on the blogosphere that Google might just go for Flickr.
With Flickr on the Yahoo side, the Googleplex would have been alarmed this rainy sunday to gear up with their next best release of blogger tightly integrated with Picasa. It's going to be long nights ahead for those geeks. Good Luck !!
Comments (10)
LG , Happy Birthday Macha. What in hell are you doing on a birthday writing about who bought who. WTF, Enjoy da. I hope you are still guessing me :)
Posted by: a_known_friend | March 21, 2005 1:14 PM
Happy Spring! And best regards to your mom for the labor she went thru ;^)
Posted by: YB | March 21, 2005 5:18 PM
dearly known friend, thanks but who the heck are you. i think I am close. Give me just one more hint. Will you ?
YB, Thank you. I hope its sunshine all along. The rain here gets on my nerves sometimes. Especially if it's on a weekend.
Posted by: Lazy Geek | March 21, 2005 7:28 PM
Happy B'day LG.Rain gets on ur nerves ?! njoy the fun...
Posted by: Raj | March 21, 2005 9:59 PM
Hi Guru, Happy B'day. What happened? Not checking your gmail account any more :-)
Posted by: thennavan | March 22, 2005 12:02 AM
Happy Birthday!
True, Flickr missed the bus, but I guess Yahoo is equally a safer destination like Google.
Below is a link, thought you might find it interesting!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_bashai
Posted by: Ashwini | March 22, 2005 12:27 AM
Having a paid subscription and a free one - it was clearly a Yahoo product. Cant imagine a product (except keyhole and google answers) where I have to pay!!
Posted by: Harish | March 22, 2005 3:03 AM
**Cant imagine a product of Google for which I have to pay!!
and a Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Harish | March 22, 2005 3:40 AM
Hullo: Guru Subramaniam.I read with interest and amusement ur blog on 'Seattle pallavan'.I am happy to know that commuting by public transport is so good there.I have mentioned it in my mail to my niece who from Seattle has composed a sonnette on Seattle's beauty,Let me try to copy-paste it to U.by Email.
Parthakrish
Posted by: partha krish | March 24, 2005 9:05 AM
Hello Partha Krish,
Thanks for that. I did read your reply to RKN's post and wanted to reply. Sorry couldn't do that.
BTW, do send me the poem on seattle's beauty. I would love to read it.
Posted by: Lazy Geek | March 24, 2005 12:10 PM