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.
My friend dave has just relaunched with a crisp, clean, lean version 3. Typography and Minimalism have free reign here…nice job man!
