- Y! Photos gets 30 million visitors per month
- It's being released in March (not long to wait)
- It will remain free with unlimited storage \ upload (revenue will come from ads)
- Standard Albums (like Flickr Photosets), and Smart ones (Dynamic based on tags & rules)
- RSS integration planned
New Yahoo! Photos - more details
Techcrunch posted an article about the new Yahoo! Photos that offers more details and exclusive screenshots of the service.
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. A more specific TechCrunch link is http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/08/yahoo-photos-overview-exclusive-screenshots/
A video of the Demo '06 presentation by the Yahoo! Photos team is at http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63052.html
And to address Steph's comment: Yes, you are still unable to download the hi-rez version of a photo you uploaded unless you are a Y! Plus, Y! Verizon, Y! SBC, Y! BT or other premium Y! subscriber.
Posted at 10:08AM on Feb 10th 2006 by Joe Beaulaurier
3. Why continue to create both Flickr and Y!Photos? It seems to me that combining the two makes much more sense. Instead of redeveloping sets and RSS in Y!P, that effort would seem better placed towards migrating the Y!P repository to Flickr and improving the Flickr front end. I don't get it - what am I missing?
4. I think Y! is doing exactly that - just the opposite way.
Look at the numbers 30 million people use Y! Photos and only 8 million use Flickr - that's a lot of people that have no idea what Flickr is.
This new version looks to be a new version of Flickr - taking components from both and pushing them to the mass market that has never used tags or RSS before.
If anything, it'll be interesting to see how Flickr continues after this upgrade - if Y! Photos does Flickr better, then why keep Flickr separate?
Posted at 12:33PM on Feb 10th 2006 by Chris Price
6. Hey it is April now and no new Yahoo! Photos....any idea of when this will be ready to go?
Posted at 1:12PM on Apr 9th 2006 by Bulldoza
1. I stopped using Yahoo Photos about 5 1/2 years ago, when I realized all the photos that I'd uploaded to store, then deleted off my hard drive, couldn't be re-downloaded at the original resolution. I don't know what Yahoo's reasoning was behind this. I only know that the practice has continued and I've shied away from the service for greener pastures.
Posted at 9:34AM on Feb 10th 2006 by Steph