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Google's Still Got a Crush on Flickr, How Cute!
Yahoo has started its latest round of layoffs, which hit its pixel-cute photo-sharing site Flickr, a formerly sacrosanct fiefdom. We hear Google has its eyes on some of the Flickr employees Yahoo let slip. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by twig: This post is a trainwreck; let me count the ways. 1. The conversation is a remarkable non-story. If Sergey... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Why Flickr's Caterina Fake Is Launching Hunch on Her Own
Caterina Fake, who cofounded Flickr with husband Stewart Butterfield in 2004, has a new startup, Hunch, which may be launching soon. But where's the other half of the famous Web 2.0 couple? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by misslinda: Their names are Butterfield and Fake and the best they can do for their kid is to name her Sonnet?... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Flickr layoffs could spell a photo finish
Every bit of Yahoo got the slash this week. Why should Flickr, the photo-sharing startup it bought in 2005, be any different?
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By Owen ThomasComment by FiveStarEggRoll: Anyone know of another round of layoffs at eBay coming soon? I read about the Fairchild layoffs and they mention... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Mancrush
Downright adorable Flickr founder wishes Microsoft had bought Yahoo
In an interview with ZDNet, Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield says that he wished Microsoft's bid for Yahoo had gone through — and that the now-scuppered deal wasn't the reason he resigned from Yahoo earlier this month. "Once the ball was rolling I would have rather seen the acquisition happen, he said. "I think a lot of damage was done to Yahoo." The admission will likely shock the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site's faithful core of hardcore fans, who created satirical Microsoft Flickr logos in response to the software giant's bid. Butterfield also implies that Flickr would have been better off under Google's ownership, since that company was more willing to spend on speculative ventures. It's not a purely hypothetical question: Google was very interested in buying Flickr, but the search engine hesitated, and Yahoo ended up buying Flickr instead. I could go on analyzing Butterfield's comments, but I've become too distracted by a Flickr search of photos which demonstrate how fricking cute he is. The results: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by nicheplayer: I still have hope that Flickr might end up under the Google banner one day. It's the best property... more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Getty and Flickr partnership took too long
Yahoo's photo-sharing subsidiary, Flickr, announced it has partnered with Getty Images to streamline the process for Getty's photo editors who want to buy images from Flickr users. For the privilege, Getty will pay Flickr a fee. It's a good idea, but one that took to long to come to fruition. Two years ago at a party in New York, Flickr cofounder Stewart Buttefield told me one way the photo-sharing site could finally make money for Yahoo: More »
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Comment by Norcross: How hard would it be to add an e-commerce functionality to flickr to allow people to sell pics easily? more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Will Flickr cofounders make a run for the border, or head for the Big Apple?
Now that Caterina Fake has left Yahoo and Stewart Butterfield has tendered his abstract resignation letter, what will the widely beloved Flickr cofounders do? And where will they go? Brendon Wilson, who worked in the Valley himself before returning to his native Canada, pointed us to an effort by a group of geeks to convince Fake and Butterfield to come back to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Flickr was launched. The welcome wagon even turned out a video slideshow of Flickr photos to remind the couple just how beautiful the city can be. Look, a rainbow! And it may just be working — last night, Butterfield added himself to the Bring Stewart and Caterina Home! group on Facebook. Fake may have other plans, though. More » -
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Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo
Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by NevadaLean: Wow, that was weird. Hate to say it, but that sounds like something my dad might write... more » | Other threads
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Flickr founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake abandon the good ship Yahoo
When Ludicorp co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake sold Flickr to Yahoo, they also moved from their Vancouver headquarters to the Bay Area to take up jobs at the Sunnyvale campus of the new parent company. Their biggest innovation since was the birth of their daughter, Sonnet — which took considerably less time than adding video to the photo sharing site. Now Fake and Butterfield have joined the stampede, with Fake having left Yahoo on Friday and Butterfield due to stick around until July 12, reports TechCrunch — confirming rumors we'd heard regarding Butterfield's plans to move on. (Photo by Caterina Fake)
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Stewart Butterfield grooms beard for ... investors?
Long before he and Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake spawned daughter Sonnet, Stewart Butterfield had a manly thatch of russet facial hair that screamed "Daddy." He's thus the natural winner of Fortune's first beard-off; other contenders like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Yelp's Russel Simmons might as well not have bothered. There's one curiosity about his win, though: Why would a judge praise Butterfield's beard for being "trimmed nicely, edgy, yet mature, so he doesn't look 18 sitting in front of investors"? We don't think judge John Allan, the owner of a chain of grooming clubs, has any special insight into Butterfield's career plans. But he's nonetheless on target: We've heard Butterfield, who sold Flickr to Yahoo more than three years ago, has left Flickr general manager Kakul Srivastava — his "hero" — in charge of his startup baby, so he can tend to his real one, and is ready to bolt from Yahoo.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Owen Thomas: @sample032: I disclose that my goatee is no match for Butterfield's full beard. I wouldn't have made it past the... more » | Other threads
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loser-generated content
Flickr to video users: You're a bunch of amateurs
Almost every digital camera captures both pictures and movies. This reality has seemed lost on Flickr for four years. Cofounder Stewart Butterfield reportedly told attendees at a fourth-birthday party last night that Flickr, now owned by Yahoo, will introduce video uploads next month. At this point, Yahoo might as well launch the service on April 1 — the delay has become that much of a joke. Yahoo Video has already relaunched, with its own movie-upload features. So why bother? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by valleymonger: @scalawag: We think the same: there is a huge problem of leadership at Yahoo!, based on small politics (college roomates... more » | Other threads
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online video
Yahoo Video relaunches, and hints at video on Flickr
Yahoo Video has soft-launched a new website, in a move which speaks to both the potential of Yahoo and the company's utter disorganization. It has all the necessaries in the age of YouTube and Hulu: clips created by amateurs and professionals, playlists, and "exclusive" content. The latter, if true, is refreshing: Thanks to syndication deals which allow the endless regurgitation of video from site to site, most of the Hollywood-born clips on the Web are numbingly similar. The site also has a tantalizing promise: Video on Flickr. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by snidleywhiplash: Flickr was a natural to become Yahoo's YouTube, but once they got merged into Yahoo, the inevitable creative paralysis set... more » | Other threads
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breakdowns
Flickr's big failure
Google Maps performed flawlessly for Apple CEO Steve Jobs in today's Macworld keynote. Yahoo's Flickr? Utter fail. In a demo of Flickr photos appearing on Apple TV, Flickr was a technical no-show. To those inside the company, this may not have come as a surprise. " More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Owen Thomas: @infosage: Oh, no worries. I saved the image. more » | Other threads
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online advertising
Google another big name in MLB steroids scandal
The biggest names in today's MLB steroids scandal? Miguel Tejada, Roger Clemens, Mo Vaughn, Andy Pettitte and yeah, Google. A tipster sends us this juxtaposition: a Google ad for steroids next to an article on the Mitchell report. So that explains why search-ad revenues are growing so fast. More »
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web 2.0 summit
Web 2.0 Summit returns to Web 1.9 roots
Can you believe that last week's Web 2.0 Summit was the fourth such conference? Its humble beginnings were barely in evidence, as venture capitalists, corporate biz-dev types, and M&A scouts seemed to outnumber the startup founders they were trying to hunt down. Friday afternoon was a return to the old school, however, with Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield and LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick among the presenters. Sadly, John Doerr, the expert inflater of the first dotcom bubble, did not cry. Check the photo gallery for the conference's final, terrifying orgy of schmoozing. Some participants were so exhausted that, by the closing cocktail party, they were making deals with their eyes closed. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ChiefCynic: I hope she uses her maiden name, or is it really Michelle Battelle? Do tell. Be well. And go to... more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by DaveMcClure500Hats: pretty much true all the time, jeff ;) more » | Other threads
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online video
Three years later, Flickr gets around to video
Promises, promises. Flickr cofounders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, we hear, are finally introducing video to the photo-sharing site they sold to Yahoo in 2005. But they've taken their sweet time. First Fake told Engadget back in 2004 that she wanted the site to introduce "short-form video." Then she told ZDNet's Dan Farber in December 2005 that it was being "hotly debated and discussed on the team." And Butterfield hinted last May that his photo sharing site would host moving pictures "soon." For some value of "soon." Here's the reason for the latest delay. More » -
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Silicon Valley's baby boom
I never intended for the blogger-baby story, which began with the birth of Ollie Kottke to A-list bloggers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan, to become quite such a saga, but news has a way of happening. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are no longer expecting a baby — they have a daughter, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield, according to fellow Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz. Here's the rundown on the rest of the couples mentioned in yesterday's baby poll, which — well done, readers — you guessed correctly. More » -
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Let's play hide the baby
Last week, the birth of a son (and future blogger) to Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan reminded us of another famous Web personality whotriedhad a colleague try, bizarrely, to claim that the mom-to-be's pregnancy was "off the record." (Memo to other would-be secret-keepers: "Off the record" is always a matter of mutual agreement between reporter and source, not something you can declare unilaterally.) We asked for guesses on who it was, and you had lots of good ones. Now it's time to vote, picking out the baby-hiders from among these glamorous A-list bloggers. Pictures of the people you've speculated about, and a poll, after the jump. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by anildash: Sigh. I can't believe I'm not winning this popularity contest! Oh, wait... what? Mena asks me to post a comment on... more » | Other threads
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flickr
We knew it: Yahoo to shutter Yahoo Photos
NICK DOUGLAS — Yahoo will shut down its popular photo sharing service in favor of the smaller but growing (and more snazzy) Flickr, which it bought in 2005, says TechCrunch. (The cool news: Yahoo will help users export their photos not just into Flickr, but into Photobucket, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Kodak Gallery.) As blogger Thomas Hawk pointed out, Valleywag reported this as "unannounced fact" in February, but Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield said not to "put a lot of stock" in our reporting. You nearly got us there, Stewart! Photo: Indoloony
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By Nick DouglasComment by Joy: I just found this post with the picture I took last year. And, that's my own head that I am... more » | Other threads
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Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?
Time to upgrade this from rumor to unannounced fact — that's our bet, anyway. "Consolidation" was the word seized upon most in Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse's "Peanut Butter Manifesto." And consolidating the duplicate services provided by post-acquisition Flickr and Yahoo Photos makes sense. Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield denied there would be any merging, but that doesn't rule out "consolidation" by way of elimination. For the whys and wherefores, read on. More » -
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Zooomr gets ddooos'd
Photo sharing siteFlickrZooomr was supposed to host a party last Friday, at which it would launch its new awesome version. Well, it didn't. More » -
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Valleyspeak: If it's not a money-maker, it's a Butterfield
A tipster says the co-founder of Yahoo's Web 2.0 property Flickr (pictured here needing someone to lean on) has a reputation as "too cool to profit." More » -
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Remainders: An extra Friday post, because everyone loves topless Unix gurus
- A guide to Unix becomes the new summer beach read for a topless sunbather in Greece. [NSFW: Flickr]
- A journalist overheard explaining how to pad an article: "But one thing is clear: I have three more paragraphs to fill." "It remains to be seen whether I can meet wordcount."
- Yahoo's photo sharing site Flickr, it turns out, made a simple way to import pics from other services. But co-founder Stewart Butterfield says that management decided to can it 'cause it was too "lame, and mean, and competitive in a bad way." Good thing you got bought, wimp. [Flickr forums]
- Web 2.0 cynic Eran Globen thrills at marketer Seth Godin's ability to sell Google themselves. "You guys have built something for the ages," Seth told Googlers in New York — in 2006 — about decisions made by different people in 1999. All marketers are liars, indeed. [Hellonline]
- Dear Macromedia founder Marc Canter: If you promise not to write free verse and call it a limerick, I'll promise not to make a Flash animation and call it an interface. [Marc's Voice]
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yahoo
Yahoo angels buy into Etsy.com
Online boutique Etsy — think of it as a hipper eBay for handmades — would be just another dot-com, except for the familiarity of its funders. VC Fred Wilson names the Etsy angel investors: More » -
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Stewart Butterfield makes the "Newsweek? So what?" face
This rockstar shot from Flickr community wrangler Heather Champ shows Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield doin' the bored camgirl look — or the look that says: "Oh, Caterina and me on Newsweek? That's nothing. I wanna see my smiling face on the cover of a Rolling Stone." More » -
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"Putting the 'We' in Web": Newsweek doesn't get it!
Flickr's Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, king and queen of the digital photo, take Polaroids. Caterina: "What is this primitive paper-making box you handed me?" More » -
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Who's who in Newsweek's "Putting the 'We' in Web"
Everyone knows that Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield were made for pretty photos. Flickr's founding couple does a great job sexing up the cover of the latest Newsweek as the poster children for the new feel of the Net. In case you missed the last three years of what Newsweek calls "the Living Web," here's an intro to the cast. More » -
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Dot-com roundup: Google still figuring out Blogger
¬ The Official Google Blog hiccuped today when Google deleted it. [via Om Malik] More »
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