Flickr to Replace Yahoo Photos (pcworld.com)

[Up2Late]

(You've got 3 month to move your stuff, or kiss it good-bye)

Friday, May 04, 2007 8:53 AM PT Posted by Tom Spring

Flickr to Replace Yahoo Photos

If you're one of the estimated 30 million Yahoo Photos account holders with with pictures stored on Yahoo Photos, take heed. Yahoo says it will be shutting down Yahoo Photos and urging people to move photos to Flickr, which it bought in 2005.

In a statement to the press Yahoo says the move will better serve digital shutter bugs when it can focus on a single photo service.

Moving day, Yahoo says, is June. That's when Yahoo Photos users will be told to upgrade to Flickr, or move their digital shoeboxes to competing photo storage Web sites. Yahoo says customers will have a 3-month transitional period to make the move and will offer assistance in transferring photos to Flickr or competing sites (Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish or Photobucket) as well.

Details are sketchy on how Yahoo customers will have to preform the "move." Yahoo says more details on the transitions will be posted to Yahoo Photos today.

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[silverojo]

1. Yahoo Photos sucked anyway

I got tired of how I'd upload pictures, then they'd automatically "optimize" them until they were a fourth of the size and grainy as hell. There are far better photo hosting sites out there, like Village Photos, Photobucket, etc.