Yahoo buys Flickr
Lots of rumors for a while, official announcement today. I was sort of hoping for Google to buy Flickr to combine with Blogger, Picasa, Maps, etc. Yahoo seems to layer on a lot of cross promotion on their web properties, and also seems to provide less enthusiastic support for web services interfaces for 3rd party applications.
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Update - March 23, 2005
Here’s an article at News.com with a good overview of why user content tagging is significant. It’s sometimes difficult to explain the potential effect of user tagging to people who haven’t seen or used any of the pieces, and this might be a good introduction for them.
