It's a good time for photo sharing on ye olde interwebs. If you're hungry for community, check
Flickr. If you're hungry for commercial printing services and mobile access to your photo collection, check Yahoo's unlimited storage offering. From within the Yahoo! Photos interface you can order prints, do some simple photo editing, and share your photos in a number of different ways: via Yahoo! Messenger, email, or via your cellphone: save all your cameraphone pics to Yahoo! Photos, access your photo albums and browse your friends' albums, and create slideshows on your mobile. Personally, I can't see myself ever ordering any prints when I can just grab some photo paper and do it myself, but the anywhere access to my photo collection via my phone -- now that's got my ears, or rather my eyes, perked.
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Subscribe to commentsStevenAug 15th 2005 7:46PM
Yahoo is killing flickr. Where are all the improvements? Maybe Google should've bought flickr instead.
Barb DybwadOct 7th 2005 4:41PM
It does seem like Yahoo is tapping the talent of the Flickr team in the development of Yahoo products -- e.g. it looks like Caterina Fake at least is involved in their new My Web 2.0 social search offering. Part of me does think it would be cool if the resources were flowing more towards Flickr but then again, I personally don't have any huge complaints with Flickr as it stands right now. And on the other hand, I'm sort of starting to get more excited about Yahoo's offerings, knowing the Flickr team is having a hand in some of it. Maybe over time we'll see a bit more balance come into the equation, hopefully.
ronenosityJul 3rd 2005 8:30PM
If you look at the total package of offerings by yahoo you can really see some amazing projects. the thing that is needed is to bring them together better. The new MyWeb is really a step in that direction. I just wish it would all happen faster/
Barb DybwadOct 7th 2005 4:41PM
I agree with you -- Yahoo is stepping into a lot of areas that are individually hot, and once all of those things are integrated in some seamless way... look out, Google! There's a certain synergy that happens from combining the value of Yahoo 360 + My Web 2.0, for example, that is greater than the sum of the individual systems...
StewartJul 7th 2005 1:52AM
You're a little late for the party here :)
Yahoo! Photos launched over five years ago. Check it out:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://photos.yahoo.com
2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000520033949/http://photos.yahoo.com/
2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010202074200/photos.yahoo.com/
2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020123010925/http://photos.yahoo.com/
2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030207072753/photos.yahoo.com/
Etc.
Barb DybwadOct 7th 2005 4:41PM
Hmmm, I always knew my fashionable lateness would get me into trouble someday. Thanks, Stewart -- I hereby admit to being completely duped by Yahoo's invite to the service I received that day, having never noticed it before + PR language = mistaking old for new. Post modified. Disaster averted. And the party rages on! ;)