Micro Persuasion: Yahoo! Acquires Flickr

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Yahoo! Acquires Flickr

Yahoo! has acquired the Flickr photo-sharing site. One of Flickr's treats is how it uses tags that help you find user-uploaded content. It should be interesting to see how Yahoo integrates them. It's another sign though that folksonomies are important - at least this year. More from Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny.

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