Yahoo! Acquires Flickr
I just read that Yahoo! has acquired Flickr. I must say I'm a bit excited by this. I think Flickr is a very good service. It's one of the few online services for which I've been willing to pay money. My hope is that Flickr won't change in any negative ways, but will continue to improve in functionality and (hopefully) performance. The one downside I've seen to Flickr in that past couple of months has been their frequent performance problems and cavalier attitude towards their downtime.
The promise of pro accounts getting "super mega bonuses" sounds promising as well. If you haven't tried Flickr yet, I highly recommend giving them a spin with one of their free accounts. This, plus new of a lot of other recent acquisitions (especially by AskJeeves) leads me to believe we're in the beginning stages of another bubble. Hopefully this one will be filled with more rational thought and sound business plans. Now if someone would only buy TiVo…
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