Comments on: Yahoo! Photos to leave beta today

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[...] and many consider double-clicking on the web to be a usability no-no. Peter Chng once say: Take this comment by about the new Yahoo! Photos site; the user laments about the interface requiring a double-click [...]

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By: Nerys

Nerys — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:02:17 +0000

I have not yet received the Yahoo Photos upgrade. Any idea as to how I can get it? I also have a yahoo 360 page, my Yahoo photos have disappeared from my page. When I tried to put them back, I got the message that I had no Yahoo Photos to share. I have Several Yahoo Photos. For some reason, I can no longer display them on my yahoo 360 page. Any ideas there? Hope you have had a Blessed Holiday Season.

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AOL Pictures goes social and it’s not pretty

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:58:19 +0000

[...] The new Yahoo! Photos came out last month and is better, but Flickr is much better still. If you’re going to follow Flickr’s lead, as everyone appears to be doing - at least do it well. Or acquire someone who’s doing something really interesting. Online video editing is the most obvious next direction for video sharing and Yahoo! just bought Jumpcut this morning. There are any number of interesting little photo sharing sites that are at least doing a better job at the state of the art than AOL Pictures. Two off the top of my head are Photoblog.com and BubbleShare (who are doing some very cool stuff). Zooomr is apparently on the market as well. [...]

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By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo! inches Flickr into search

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo! inches Flickr into search — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:35:02 +0000

[...] The Yahoo! Photos site is much larger than Flickr, but its users are just getting introduced to the idea of sharing their photos with the world. Flickr users are accustomed to this, but may post edgier photos as well. flickr, Yahoo! [...]

By: Rob Igo

Rob Igo — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:33:10 +0000

Hi, I’ve tried switching to US - English on preferred content etc but now when I click “Join Beta” it gives me an error saying it’s being looked into.

I have a question for the people who are using the beta. Is there any upload or storage limit. Is there a image size limit. THE MAIN question is - does yahoo now store your original size for you to recall/download at a later date (like my flickr account).

By: Darryl.net » The New Yahoo! Photos - Now Available in the U.S.

Darryl.net » The New Yahoo! Photos - Now Available in the U.S. — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:50:28 +0000

[...] Last week, we launched Yahoo! Photos v3 to the U.S. You can read the official press release, or check out the usual suspects. This is the culmination of over a year’s worth of effort - an entire re-write of the site from the ground up. Because we were able to start from scratch, you will notice many new features and “web 2.0″ concepts not found on other sites of this scale. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:05:27 +0000

I look forward to checking out the Yahoo! Photos API. I agree with Marshall’s comment that it could be particularly appealing target for outside developers. I don’t think the fact that the user base is largely made up of non-early adopters will mitigate the excitement too much.

By: Ove

Ove — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:23:03 +0000

My Yahoo! Photos accout is still not converted to the new version. I get a message “We’ve been putting the finishing touches on a big upgrade to Yahoo! Photos and it’s rolling out now. Your accout will be upgraded automatically - so check back soon”.

Maybe it is coz I’ve a Norwegian account, xxxx@yahoo.no?

Someone who knows when my accout will be converted?

By: Yahoo! Photos out of beta today » Dee’s-Planet! Blog

Yahoo! Photos out of beta today » Dee’s-Planet! Blog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:54:58 +0000

[...] The new site is currently available to the US users but it’s expected to be roll out soon to users around the world. Contine for more info… [...]

By: El Guapo

El Guapo — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:26:03 +0000

Zoomr is horrible, the upload system is absolutely a joke. You can only upload 5 images at a time, using a web form? You have to be kidding me.

By: Rajesh Segu

Rajesh Segu — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:27:52 +0000

Guys!!! I just got a trick to upgrade my normal yahoo photos account to Yahoo Photos Beta, just change your content type to Yahoo US!! and you would find a link to Join Beta on the top right hand side. If you want detailed steps , refer http://www.rajeshsegu.com/?p=208 .

Initially it would take some time for migrating your old account to the latest…. so you could come across some glitches, dont panic, your information would never be lost.

I have started playing with the new Y! Photos and I must confess that I am already in love with it……

By the way, there is no mention of any storage space, does it mean its “UNLIMITED”, I personally doubt!!

By: Baher

Baher — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:25:17 +0000

Yahoo Photos is one of the first Web 2.0 Services Yahoo decided to release for public use, despite its relatively short beta period, which gives a hint of its stability, and the dire need to release it as soon as possible in the face of heated competition, and for fear of losing their current users to more advanced services.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:54:10 +0000

zooomr is nothing. I think zoto is great.

Yahoo! photo’s unlimited storage of full size photo is better than any similar service.

By: Jude Matsalla

Jude Matsalla — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:16:31 +0000

The YUI blog has a post about the new Y! Photos that includes a note about an app built on its API: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/0.....ol-things/

By: Colin C.

Colin C. — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:01:03 +0000

Wow, I’m actually surprised no one mentioned Zoomr in this thread/comments. It seems any time the word flickr pops up on TechCrunch that there is a plug in for Zoomr.

On a side note, I’m also confused why Yahoo has 2 photo sites.

By: Thyaga

Thyaga — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:23:39 +0000

I actually have been using Yahoo! Photos for a while and the reason why i haven’t moved to the more “tech-savvy” sites such as Flickr/Picasa/Riya is the pain in transferring my photos there. Wonder, if all my photos on Yahoo! will automatically show up in Flickr ?

Having said that, it is great that Yahoo! Photos has undergone a face lift - many features in the previous version used to work fine in IE (drag and drop, rearrange photos for example) but not in Firefox. Hopefully, they have got around that problem now.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:24:30 +0000

Brian, very cool. Thanks.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:18:35 +0000

It doesn’t look like it’s public yet. And I don’t know how long it’s been here. But: there is now a Yahoo! Photos Services site on the Yahoo! Dev site.
http://developer.yahoo.com/photos/

So, it looks like the API is on its way!

By: El Guapo

El Guapo — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:59:36 +0000

I think the new Yahoo photos sucks:

- Clicking on an image thumbnail does not show the full image (you have to double-click it!). This is web blasphemy. Why break a universally understood and accepted user interface? This boggles the mind.

- There is no way to link directly to an album slideshow.

- The advertisements are overwhelming and totally distracting.

I still use it because it has unlimited free uploads of any image size. But the new site really irks me. I’m looking for something better that is still free. Any suggestions?

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Yahoo! Photos、ベータ版を今日卒業 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:55:55 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:50:19 +0000

I was also curious why Y! photos and Flickr remain separate, but the reason, as pointed out by Marshall, is something as simple as market segregation. Flickr and Yahoo! photos, in general, host very different types of users.

Flickr users are generally the “tech-saavy” sort, and may into computer/design or something similar, and a lot of them have a blog. Flickr’s also very community-oriented, making it easy to discover other people’s photos and comment on them. In this way, Flickr is more like a community.

Yahoo! photos is mainstream - this is evidenced by their huge (numerically) user base. These people, as pointed out, are just looking to share photos with friends/family and usually not with the whole world, though that is an option. There’s no real options to browse/discover other people’s photos. Thus, Yahoo! Photos is less like a community than just a personal service.

Combining the two probably wouldn’t be good - besides the technical issues and time it would take, users probably wouldn’t like the result, even it “compromised” between the two - Flickr users would feel it to be “dumbed down” and regular users wouldn’t “get it”. In this way, it’s better to separate the niche from the mainstream.

On another note, I’ve been trying Y! photos out since about June, (mostly just using it for online archival purposes), and the interface is pretty slick - drag and drop selection for photos, mass-edit/delete options. (Though there’s a hamster-dance reference instead of the regular Ajax activity indicators - ack!)

By: Mike Welch

Mike Welch — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:46:11 +0000

This service doesn’t even come close in features or options to sites like http://www.smugmug.com or countless others.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:28:36 +0000

You can make photos or albums public and viewable at your public URL, eg.

http://photos.yahoo.com/idliketowork/

You can also share albums via email invites as noted.