Yahoo! Photos shutting down

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It finally came to an end. Of course, it doesn’t really practical to have two competing products under your wings with Flickr overwhelmingly crushing yahoo photos in terms of functionality and popularity. It only needed time to finally cut the lifeline of Yahoo photos. At first, I thought they are merging the service but in the end, one has to be removed.

But what is its significance to me? Maybe none because I hardly use it. But it is my wife who will be affected much. We have our online album with Yahoo!Photos and we didn’t bother moving it and instead adding more as time went by. So it would be a daunting task to download them all and transfer it to Flickr or Photobucket. I just hope Yahoo will find a way to automatically transfer them. I understand the Flickr is different with Yahoo in many ways(i.e, the album type storing of photos) and the decision on where to transfer the photos will be discussed soon.

For more about the news, please see http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9715882-7.html

I wonder what will happen with Google videos in the long run after the YouTube buyout.