Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored //Yahoo收购Flickr!
游牧人Roger
期待ing
Om Malik reports:
Rumors are flying thick and fast in Silicon Valley: Yahoo is all set to
buy Ludicorp, the company behind the hot photo blogging web service
Flickr, for an undisclosed amount of money. Its not the first time
rumors of these talks have made the rounds. Stewart Butterfield and
Caterina Fake told my colleague Michael Copeland, that they had
received buyout offers from both Google and Yahoo. (Read the story
here. )
Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms
are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or
five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart Butterfield, who co-founded
Flickr with his wife, Caterina Fake. "We even had a health-care fund
call recently. I guess they wanted in on the excitement."
Most of the deal-related chatter is coming from blogging world insiders
who have said that Flickr might have inked the papers last week, but
Yahoo is holding off on an announcement until March 1. At this point,
it could all just be that--chatter. Yahoo's spokesperson said the
company doesn't comment on rumors and speculation. In other words, take
a hike. I could not reach Butterfield and Fake, the husband-wife team
who started Flickr. I have dropped them an email, but have not heard
back from either of them.
Flickr, which allows you to upload and share photos on the Internet,
has been a big hit with the blogging community. Often described as
"Friendster of photo blogging," Flickr allows folks to upload photos
directly from their camera phones to the Flickr website. The service
has inspired a whole slew of copycats. The service has more than
250,000 members and 3.5 million photos on its website.
http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2005/02/flickr_yahoo_de.html
Flickr这样的个性化服务产品受到众多的青睐也表现出市场对这方面的需求。Blog业界公司的收购动作我们都比较熟悉，实际上，微软，Amazon等公司在个人服务市场上都有很多动作，甚至NYTimes也是在这方面表现出很大兴趣。Flickr是一个好产品，而市场也赋予了一个好的产品所应有的价值。我觉得Flickr最精彩的地方并非想法，而是易用性。把一项Web服务的用户体验做得很到位，整个服务将用户从操作提升到体验的层面，这已经是一种艺术。
Flickr的创始人，和Six
Apart一样，也是一对夫妻搭档创办的公司
游牧人Roger
so disappointed
游牧人Roger
Browse Flickr from your TiVo
Developer Andrew R. Wallace has created a way to browse the
photo-sharing site Flickr from TiVo using the new Home Media Engine
feature, and it looks great. I just tried it out and my Flickr account
is completely available from my TiVo. I think this has a good chance
of winning Best Photo Application in the TiVo Developer Challenge.
HME apps require System 7.1, which includes TiVoToGo. If you have
System 7.1, you'll need to allow HME apps to run by going to System
Information and pressing clear clear 0 0 on your remote. Then, just
download the Java program and run it on your computer. You can find
out more at the developer's site or rate it at HME PVRblog.
游牧人Roger
http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html
这为yahoo即将推出的360.yahoo.com 或许能加上不错的功能