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Flickr Resistance Against Microsoft Takeover, originally uploaded by sonicwalker.
But I’ve decided to stop that as I’ve pondered some of the implications.
Oh yeah, and users of the Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr are pissed – as can be seen in the above image.
I guess I have to wonder, if Microsoft’s $44.6 billion deal to acquire Yahoo goes through, what happens next?
Most of what Yahoo does is mirrored by Microsoft products – e-mail, web portals, search, heck Microsoft even has their photo sharing platform (not that too many people use it.)
So, is Microsoft going to consolidate these services? Or are they going to run parallel, in a sense, competing with themselves?
I guess the reason I’ve been ignoring this massive news is because it really doesn’t affect me much. Most of my online data belongs to Google these days but I do still use a few of their services (mostly Flickr and del.icio.us.)
So is my Yahoo ID still going to work to get in? Or are we going to have switch to Microsoft’s passport deal? Or will both work? I guess the merger could leave some kind of weird (but controlled) version of the OpenID project with 2/3 of the major web players being accessible through one account.
At this point, I really don’t know. But those Flickr users, man, are they unhappy about it.
