Now I'm Nervous About Using Flickr (Yahoo! Passion))

Posted by on January 15, 2010 in Internet, Technology | 2 comments

I just heard the news regarding MyBlogLog, and as you know it doesn’t instill confidence within me for the big Y!

(ReadWriteWeb) Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites.

I was never a fan of the service, but with them shutting down anything that isn’t generating serious cash (i.e. their Shopping API, giving up search to Bing!, etc.) I’m no longer going to upload images to Flickr and will probably stick with Facebook or Picasa Albums instead.

Yahoo! has some great products under its belt, some which were kicking Google’s wazoo before the purple Y! acquired them.

But if Yahoo! continues this trend of passionless retreat, then I probably need to find someone else to host my goods upon. Sad times indeed!

  • http://www.bradleyfarless.com Brad F.

    Good point. I was considering paying for a pro account to have an online backup of all my images but I worry too that they'll be shutting down soon. Google is far more reliable.

  • http://www.darnellclayton.com Darnell Clayton

    Yeah, right now I'm uploading my photos to Facebook & Picasa. Video's are heading towards YouTube & Facebook.

    I wish I had a decent third alternative though.