Reaction to Yahoo Flickr Merger
"Technorati finds 1853 yahoo flickr results, mostly about Yahoo buying Flickr. Google Web finds 350,000 results, starting with old reports, mostly on blogs, of rumors that Yahoo might buy Flickr. Google News finds 22 results, of which only this blogcritics item has current news on the matter. That's at 5pm, Mountain time, today."
I find it fascinating that the whole deal was announced via blog on a Sunday. There's nary a press release to be found. And Yahoo is a publicly traded firm.
A commenter on my last post thinks that this means Six Apart could be next. Maybe that's what Yahoo meant by Yahoo 360 - going in circles??
What do you think? Smart PR or not? Does it "warm up the story" for bigger Monday coverage or would they gotten a bigger pop by giving traditional channels first shot?
Or, because they're Y! and get a ton of press anyhow, it doesn't matter either way?
Posted by: Royal | Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 08:47 PM
Today is the start of PC Forum in Scottsdale where Jerry Yang was one of today's speakers. He mentioned the Flickr acquisition on stage with Esther Dyson, one Flickr's angel investors.
Posted by: Niall Kennedy | Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 09:59 PM
The Yahoo - Flickr deal (and see the Hello/Picasa - Google one or HP - Snapfish) shows that online photo sharing is one of this future killer app for internet users.
But the next big concern for photo sharing services might be the related infrastructure costs (mainly bandwith, storage and servers) while they are expanding.
We, the PixVillage Team, provide an answer using P2P technologies as a way to share photos privately. First it is a legal use for P2P technologies, then it offers fast, fully scalable, free and unlimited online photo sharing to its users. And we do not support any infrastructure costs. As of today, around 1 000 000 photos have been shared by our users.
Have a look at www.pixvillage.com and tell me what you think...
Pit.
Posted by: Pit | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 at 01:25 PM