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Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

voltagex_ wrote: post #24

Again I ask, where should I take ~30GB of photos that I have on Flickr? Yes, I have other backups but I need offsite storage. Guess I'll have to budget for it now. Backblaze B2 isn't quite ready yet.

Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc. They're all very reasonably priced in my opinion (Amazon's says they give you unlimited). But if you want something more sharing oriented like flikr then that's a different beast. You can kinda do that with Google Drive and Google Plus but no one uses that.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by potatolicious »

plinkplonk wrote: post #19
chollida1 wrote: post #17

Yahoo had to do this. They had been hanging onto the belief that the IRS wouldn't tax their Alibaba spin out, a belief that they and their tax accountants alone believed. Most telling is that Yahoo was up after the markets closed on this news. Heck Bloomberg just sent me a note saying the sentiment of the news on Yahoo was very positive, even the machines like this news:) Sadly this probably means 3 things are going…

"Sadly this probably means 3 things are going to happen in the next 6 months" (Genuine question, not snark). Why "sadly"? Companies, even technical companies, get obsolescent and die all the time. Maybe it is just Yahoo's time to go.

Agree with the others re: our first experiences on the internet.

But even now Yahoo is still hanging on to some valuable things we're likely to lose in this change. I'm still a heavy user of Flickr for example - and though many others have tried, it's still IMO the best photography community out there (sorry 500px).

It's been a perennial money-loser for Yahoo, kept around because what self-respecting tech giant doesn't have a photo hosting service? I fear with this spinoff we're seeing the end days for that product.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by pmlnr »

DannoHung wrote: post #85
pmlnr wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been running my own site for displaying images; for backup, I have a dedicated server + synthing. It's the archives I'd really, really miss, from people who more or less stopped taking photos. If Flickr was to offer what Smugmug and 500px does for pros ( like direct upload from Lightroom, eyecandy portfolios, etc. ) instead of focusing on an app that uploads every picture it finds by default, I believe they'd se…

Flickr has direct upload from Lightroom... Actually, I think that's built in to Lightroom.

Lots of thing have Flickr upload; it was just not build by Flickr itself, supporting the professional photographer culture in the first place.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by clavalle »

Yahoo is the Motorola of the Internet Sector.

Always playing catch up in an industry that is lead or die. Good to great engineers with failed leadership trying to coast on past success then, when the stuff hits the fan, trying to effect a culture change on a bloated structure. Finally, the sell off.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by tacos »

xyzzy4 wrote: post #76
tacos wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Green, and Tumblr...?

Tumblr is very culturally significant but not financially successful.

Like that time they told every one of their users that a pending bill in Congress was going to kill Tumblr, set up robocalls that required a single click, and achieved a 0.2% response rate?

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by caycep »

chollida1 wrote: post #17

Yahoo had to do this. They had been hanging onto the belief that the IRS wouldn't tax their Alibaba spin out, a belief that they and their tax accountants alone believed. Most telling is that Yahoo was up after the markets closed on this news. Heck Bloomberg just sent me a note saying the sentiment of the news on Yahoo was very positive, even the machines like this news:) Sadly this probably means 3 things are going…

Maybe it's the opposite. I feel like people seemed to like working at Yahoo while she was there...but no great new products...

I do hope they find a good home for Flickr...I will miss it terribly if it is gone.

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Post by EA »

voltagex_ wrote: post #24

Again I ask, where should I take ~30GB of photos that I have on Flickr? Yes, I have other backups but I need offsite storage. Guess I'll have to budget for it now. Backblaze B2 isn't quite ready yet.

I am guessing 500px will roll out a "welcome" for old Flickr.com users and give them a heck of a deal to join up to 500px.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by wlesieutre »

potatolicious wrote: post #102
plinkplonk wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Sadly this probably means 3 things are going to happen in the next 6 months" (Genuine question, not snark). Why "sadly"? Companies, even technical companies, get obsolescent and die all the time. Maybe it is just Yahoo's time to go.

Agree with the others re: our first experiences on the internet. But even now Yahoo is still hanging on to some valuable things we're likely to lose in this change. I'm still a heavy user of Flickr for example - and though many others have tried, it's still IMO the best photography community out there (sorry 500px). It's been a perennial money-loser for Yahoo, kept around because what self-respecting tech giant doesn…

I'll agree with flickr having a lot of good photography, but did they actually fix the community?

When I used it, all I remember is that 90% of comments were sparkling banners saying "YOUR PHOTO HAS BEEN AWARTED BEST FLICKR OCEAN SUNSET AWARD MAY 2010! CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR GROUP! JOIN JOIN JOIN!" to the point where it interfered with anyone trying to have an actual conversation.

Which was a shame because outside of the enormous volume of spam they had a pretty good thing going.

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