Does Microsoft want to create the next Flickr? Their job advertising certainly suggests it does:
Come make Windows Live the best place to share your digital memories! Heard of Flickr? YouTube? How about. Mac? This role will work across the new Windows Live division with teams like Spaces, SkyDrive, Messenger and Hotmail to construct a winning strategy for Microsoft in photo and video sharing. This role involves leading the team to design the strategy then build and implement a winning solution that will be loved by millions of customers. This feature team is building a next-generation photo and video sharing service that will compete with flickr, smugmug and other photo web solutions today. This is a “v1” opportunity.
Rest of the job advert here.
Always good to aim high than low, although I’m interested to see what they end up creating. Besides, didn’t Ballmer say Microsoft dominated the net already?
(via istartedsomething)
If microsoft decides it can do it.
Blazing fast video search:
http://www.meet...earchVideo.aspx
funny picture reminds me of the grinch.
http://www.meet...earchVideo.aspx ??
That web design is so bad I think it gave me cancer.
http://www.meet...com/Whatis.aspx
^^ hahaha. Wow. I haven’t had a good laugh in a long time. Thank you #1
Hey, Microsoft, stop trying to copy everyone else — instead, hire creatives that can help you originate the next big thing.
“Have you heard of flickr?” As if you want to hire someone you need to ask that question of
Is there a CEO that is less photogenic than Ballmer? Seriously, it looks like he should be hiding out in the woods haunting our dreams.
Well this sounds just like Microsoft, why innovate when we can poorly replicate? They will do a crappy job with this and wind up being #3 in the photo sharing space, if that high.
Everybody wants to create ‘the next’ Flickr.
Get in line Microsoft.
MS is a big square – they don’t know how to create appeal.
i downloaded windows live writer yesterday, and what opens first is a windows live homepage… i cannot say why, but it felt creepy, like the gate that leads to a chute that leads to a corral, and my first instincts were, no!, and i deleted that out of my system as fast as i could…
odd, why such a response should be… is it in the design?, am i feeling the intention behind the design subliminally?
either way, it felt like it was something they made for their advantage, not mine…. so, thanks but no thanks
not gonna happen. that job is not going far.
Why can’t Microsoft do something new? Why is it that they are always trying to catch up; why are they trying to go out and clone Flickr or YouTube or whomever?
flickr is irreplacable – ever.
Oh, I know: Let’s call it Ballmr!
Yahoo should have bought Facebook for six billion. They scoffed instead. Now see who is having the last laugh?
The Microsoft deal makes it worth over 20 billion. Another opportunity squandered.
This is ridiculous. We have all of that already, it’s called Flickr, Picasa, and just about a thousand other names. What prompted Google to release OpenSocial was the need for a way for developers (and, ultimately, users) to deal with the staggering amount of social networks around the Net. What Microsoft is doing by replicating others’ good ideas is just creating a need for another OpenSocial.
Question is, how can they always be so dumb and unaware of the direction the market is taking?
“How about. Mac?”
No. How about .Mac?
- pj
(it’s subtle difference, I’ll grant you…)
I think better they should buy flickr rather than making a clone site like flickr, it would be really hard for them to make such largest community like flickr, that is not easy job.
The next Flickr has already been created, and it’s called Ipernity ( http://ipernity.com ). I don’t understand the international version of TC hasn’t profiled this fantastic social photo/video/audio sharing site, TC France has:
http://fr.techc...aise-a-myspace/
Admittedly it’s a Flickr rip off, but it’s such a so-much-better-than-original rip off!
This is why I get annoyed when MS use the word “innovate” in conjunction with any of their products.
it’s a tragicomedy of sorts to watch Microsoft in the paroxysms of agonizing frustration in its utter failure to make the slightest
headway with any of the umpteenth insipid, half-ass iterations it continues to serve up to the public in the hopes that some-
thing, please God!, is going to stick. So now, at least up until
the next online killer app that strikes their fancy they’ve got
their eyes on Flickr.
It’s downright embarrassing to observe Balllmer in the throes
of what appears the heat of Vulcan mating season, berserk
and irrational wherever he goes, the manifestations of what
surely must be Microsoft’s remarkable ineptitude outside the desktop that weighs so heavily on his mind.
It boggles the mind to consider the litany of loser offerings
they have had the myopic audacity to dredge up in the
megalomaniac delusion that the power they yield like a
Sword of Damocles over their legions of groveling,
subservient desktop users will somehow miraculously manage
to extend itself beyond the hegemony of the desktop death-grip
they rule over with impunity.
The reality of Microsoft in the infinite trail of abject failure outside
the realm of the desktop is its emphatic corporate legacy as
nothing but a usurper of ideas, a pillager of concepts, an imitator, and a poor one at that, an impostor, a corporate charlatan bereft
of a scintilla of creativity, of imagination, nothing but a fierce, fearsome predator-bully, its ability and capacity to strike fear
within us all as its most formidable offering of all.
wow some folks really believe Goog is being altruistic for offering OpenSocial. lol
This sounds good. I’ve been active blogger for PPP with my other blog. However dollar falling has made it less attractive.
I am interested in Microsoft’s plans, but I am not interested in the final product. Their plans show what Microsoft is attempting to achieve, so understanding that is worthwhile. But we already know their product will suck, so looking at that is a waste of time.
FYI, they’re already creating the next generation of Flickr using Flickr data itself in Photosynth:
http://www.tech...app-photosynth/
This would obviously not be a Flickr competitor in that it has a different audience and purpose, but the job description provided fits the development of this tool as well.
Bravo, brvura @20:
‘…paroxysms of agonizing frustration…” viz Microsoft.
How can we adequately characterize a company that has infinite access to talent, infinite resources, etc., who releases an abortion of an operating systems as it’s coup de gras of years labours, follows and never innovates in the horizontal market, and yet…..profits and thrives?
I call it the manifest destiny of a critical mass. They can’t but make money, even when throwing dung against the wall as a legacy of their previous masterful hegemony of the PC desktop, and to a lesser extent, the back end architecture.
There is one exception and it is no guarantee of anything: Developer tools. They make some decent, well integrated tools that are good for certain heavy client applications. But even this is eroding.
For every Microsoft product profit center, there is an analogue or alternative not only in the open source front, but alternative tools in general. Notice, I have not mentioned Apple, oops, I just did.
I am – was – an XP power user, then on a lark to setup a west coast office, bought a cheap Mac Mini; not because I wanted a Mac, I just needed a package that was easy to schlep back to the office.
Long story short: I installed Parallels, XP, and at first used the Mac side rarely, it was strange to me. But as time went on, I booted Windows less and less, and now, never. I am saved.
And we have Vista machines in my office, so as you see, Msoft got its pound of flesh by virtue of a few new Lenovo Laptops we had to have.
Vista is, my dear friends, an abortion. And I bring that up on this thread, off topic as it is about Microsoft following by years a past and established service that they cannot hope to capture, but to merely illustrate the following:
Even with virtually unlimited time and resources, the Msoft organization could not deliver a product that they should have crushed and seduce to greatness. All other failures are of a piece and follow from that observation.
i wonder is Ballmer is as goofy as he looks.
Steve Ballmer is a genius, he doesn’t need to be number 1 in everything to make Microsoft dominant.
Numbers 1 – 4 in everything they do would ensure their dominance.
Everyone of you here is laughing at Steve Ballmer, well look at your bank account against his and look who’s laughing.
How do you think? if the reason interferes with evolution, it too evolution? its soon be like 50 cent diss
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