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Well the cats out of the bag. Yahoo has bought flickr. As hard as I try I just can’t seem to find anything positive about this, with the exception of the flickr team getting paid for all their hard work. There has been quite a number of responses to this over at the flickr groups both positive and negative. I am happy to see the positive responses and would love to join in, but at this stage my concern is that all of the work that the team has put in to make flickr the awesome community that it is will be compromised. The last thing flickr.com needs is the intervention of yahoo sillyness. The flickr pep talk has stressed primarily the integration of flickr into yahoo’s site, in various areas where they can be of help. Too bad they just didnt do some consulting and programming for yahoo and left it at that… Hopefully I’m wrong and it will continue to be one of the strongest communities on the net.

Over at Happy Cog, you can see Jeffrey Zeldmans video keynote from web essentials 04, held in Sydney Australia.

Gotta say one of my biggest frustrations with Google Adsense is using it on a blog. Google does a good job of indexing content but, sometimes its too good. For example a couple entries down, you can see the subject I posted about and then compare it to the ads on the sidebar. I dare not mention that type of species I wrote about as it might keep those ads there longer. It would be great if there was a more efficient way to over-ride ads than using the URL filter, which takes a day or so to kick in, and even then a host of other ads in the same genre appear that you again have to filter out. Its a vicious cycle. I’m glad it does a good job of indexing, I’d just like more control over the ads.