Comments on: When your assets are no longer monetizable: Yahoo! Photos to close http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/05/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/ The Virtual Investor Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:18:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: keith jones http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/05/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-472525 keith jones Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:03:56 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/03/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-472525 more yahoo mafia problems here: http://s216606257.websitehome.co.uk/tony.htm more yahoo mafia problems here: http://s216606257.websitehome.co.uk/tony.htm

]]> By: Looking into the near future - Drive:Activated http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/05/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-449020 Looking into the near future - Drive:Activated Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:05:49 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/03/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-449020 [...] Or what if the service decides to cease offering the service, like when Yahoo! decided to axe Yahoo! Photos earlier this year? [...] [...] Or what if the service decides to cease offering the service, like when Yahoo! decided to axe Yahoo! Photos earlier this year? [...]

]]> By: ant http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/05/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-217641 ant Tue, 08 May 2007 16:05:01 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/03/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-217641 Intriguing news. I suspect that killing Yahoo photo's will generate far less spume and vitriol than changing the flickr login process (something I vented much spleen upon, and then succumbed to when a nice chap at flickr set me up with a yahoo account - I didn't know him, I'm not digerati or anything, I'm just a user and he went the extra mile). Perhaps this is Yahoo shedding a layer of corporate skin to re-emerge with far more 'flickryness' in it's 'personality'? I do hope that for users of Yahoo photo's it's not to traumatic a process. I woder also if this is the mergence of the fundamental archive refresh cycle of online storage? WIth a traditional archive in video for instance, the main weeding cycle was driven by the need to migrate carriers- from U-matic to Betacam for instance. Whenever you migrated carier, you'd prioritise the content and expect to loose the bottom slice (as small as you could afford). Maybe the main cycle driver is now the commercial viability of services, as opposed to the economic viability of carriers. (N.B. very little migration is driven by decay- far more is due to increasing costs due to obsolescence). Intriguing news. I suspect that killing Yahoo photo’s will generate far less spume and vitriol than changing the flickr login process (something I vented much spleen upon, and then succumbed to when a nice chap at flickr set me up with a yahoo account - I didn’t know him, I’m not digerati or anything, I’m just a user and he went the extra mile). Perhaps this is Yahoo shedding a layer of corporate skin to re-emerge with far more ‘flickryness’ in it’s ‘personality’?
I do hope that for users of Yahoo photo’s it’s not to traumatic a process.
I woder also if this is the mergence of the fundamental archive refresh cycle of online storage? WIth a traditional archive in video for instance, the main weeding cycle was driven by the need to migrate carriers- from U-matic to Betacam for instance. Whenever you migrated carier, you’d prioritise the content and expect to loose the bottom slice (as small as you could afford). Maybe the main cycle driver is now the commercial viability of services, as opposed to the economic viability of carriers. (N.B. very little migration is driven by decay- far more is due to increasing costs due to obsolescence).

]]> By: Zoli's Blog http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/05/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-215600 Zoli's Blog Fri, 04 May 2007 15:04:35 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/03/when-your-assets-are-no-longer-monetizable-yahoo-photos-to-close/#comment-215600 <strong>Yahoo Spreads the Peanut Butter</strong> A key idea in Brad Garlinghouse's Peanut Butter Manifesto was to eliminate redundancy within Yahoo, kill overlapping products that compete with each other.  Yesterday Mr. Peanut-Butter himself, along with Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield bro... Yahoo Spreads the Peanut Butter

A key idea in Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter Manifesto was to eliminate redundancy within Yahoo, kill overlapping products that compete with each other.  Yesterday Mr. Peanut-Butter himself, along with Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield bro…

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