Flickr – Yahoo deal
As pretty much everyone who reads anyone‘s blog knows by now, Yahoo is buying Flickr. I hope this doesn’t change Flickr’s wonderful open philosophy. Their API should be a model for all sites, no matter what service they provide. It is well documented (but not overly verbose), and extremely flexible. Hopefully Yahoo’s $ can help Flickr deal with some of the capacity and stability challenges that have come with their incredible growth. Flickr may also be able to contribute a lot on the usability front to Yahoo’s different sites, some of which haven’t improved in this area for 3-4 years. We’ll just have to see how it all works out.
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