Yahoo! Photos to be Shut Down!

Yahoo! is planning on axing its online photo storage site, Yahoo! Photos, instead, asking users to shift to other options, more prominently, it's own Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo! official confirmed.

So, come June, and millions of registered Yahoo! Photos users will be presented multiple options, including upgrading to Yahoo!'s Flickr service or to outside photo storage sites, or even rival sites, said Stewart Butterfield, Director of Product Management at Yahoo!, and Co-founder of Flickr.
Butterfield said while users would be asked to upgrade to outside photo storage sites such as PhotoBucket, which is extremely popular with MySpace users, etc; or to the more conventional Kodak Gallery; or to Snapfish; top priority would be accorded to Flickr nevertheless.

Flickr was sold to Yahoo! in 2005 by Co-founders, Butterfield and wife, Caterina Flake.

Commenting on the development, Jeff Weiner, Executive Vice President of Network Division, Yahoo!, said the move is part of their ongoing efforts to align Yahoo!'s resources, and focus on core strategic priorities.

But yes, Yahoo!'s announcement comes pat after a huge surge in growth of California-based PhotoBucket. From just a quarter of the market about a year ago, PhotoBucket's share has grown to nearly 40 percent last month, according to Hitwise Data.

And in the same period, Yahoo! Photos' market share has gone down drastically to 5.8 percent, while the Flickr share has grown from 3.7 percent to 4.5 percent, says Hitwise Data.

For the last two years, Yahoo! has supported both Yahoo! Photos and Flickr. However Yahoo! Photos by nature is more conventional as compared to Flickr that has been attracting a steady flow of amateur and professional photographers interested only in sharing digital photos online.

Source:www.techtree.com
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