Yahoo! can't see the forest for the trees. (Silent Color III by k.b. - available on P1xels.com)
Interesting article on Gawker about Yahoo screwing the pooch with Flickr.
Flickr is still very valuable. It has a massive database of geo-tagged, Creative Commons- and Getty-licensed, subject-tagged photos. But sadly, Yahoo’s steady march of incompetence doesn’t bode well for making use of these valuable properties. If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe, covering everything it comes in contact with in watered-down shit.
Flickr is still pretty wonderful. But it’s lovely in the same way a box of old photos you’ve stashed under the bed is. It’s an archive of nostalgia that you love dearly, on the rare occasion you stumble across it. You pull them out, and hold them up to the light, and remember a time when you were younger, and the Web was a more optimistic place, and it really was almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
And here is a rant about Yahoo! I did the other day, how clueless the suits are in this new era where media and news are no longer external entities: it is we who are imbedded in the data now.
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