Yahoo! Updates

I have just one complaint with Flickr. There is no data liberation policy. Hopefully Marissa Mayer would bring this philosophy to Flickr soon enough.
I stopped using Flickr after realizing that it was literally impossible to get images back officially. Third party tools work but are mostly painful to use on our connections.
 
Ah. Sucks. I guess they want you to take care of your images. Don't depend on the cloud. 😛
 
hehe. i am at a phase where i had rather delete all my images because they reminds me of painful times. 😛 start afresh.
 
Haha. Happens with everyone. Worse is Instagram. They crop, resize, apply filter to an extent you can't make out how the original one looked. So if you lose the original, you are basically f**cked. Not with Flickr.
 
Well yeah. I recently accidentally f'ed up my photo folder on Google Drive which is what I use to store them these days. That would not have happened with Flickr.
I reorganized the folders without the app running. When the app loaded next time around, it sort of got super confused and deleted everything. I still have a backup stored on Bitcasa but I am sure I have lost a bunch of recent photos. Not a good feeling. lol.
 
Yahoo Inc. has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp., a person familiar the situation said, but has so far failed in that effort.
The Silicon Valley Internet company disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that Microsoft had extended a revenue guarantee associated with the partnership, the second such extension since the 10-year pact took effect in 2010.
Chief Executive Marissa Mayer has been seeking to end the contract with Microsoft since joining Yahoo from Web-search giant Google Inc. last year, this person said, adding that Microsoft has indicated it wasn't interested in doing so.
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http://www.readability.com/articles/abklindp
Microsoft the chep company. Chipakao itself tightly with both Nokia and Yahoo.
 
Well considering that Yahoo! has been trying to purchase half the internet in last few months, something indeed special might be there to announce now. And if its something related to Flickr, it should be awesome then.
 
I am worried that they might have turned it into a Google+ like social network with streams and feeds and posts and comments with photo as just another element :
Maybe we would see the launch of Yahoo+ on monday! Woo.
 
That would be a big facepalm moment. Google+'s Handling of photos is really awesome. I tried uploading some 300+ pics and they all look beautiful now. Flickr really needs a magic wand if it wants to stay in the game. And copying G+ would be like :russianroulette:
 
Flickr still retains the advantage of a pretty awesome unlimited storage package. 500px has a cheaper plan but it is very different in nature.
But Yahoo probably take Google+ as a serious threat to their Flickr business. Loads of pro photographers are dumping Flickr.
 

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