Closure of Yahoo Photo: Blame Canada

What do Yahoo Photos and Flickr have in common? Nothing. Flickr is AWESOME. It seems Yahoo executive agree with me. As of this morning, Yahoo Photos will surrender their piece of the photo sharing pie to concentrate on the delightful à la mode that is Flickr. While the veteran Yahoo Photos employees may be saddened by this turn, they may have gotten out just in time. Rumours of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger have Yahoo engineers shaking in their cubicles.

It'll take more than Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and Dave Filo sumo wrestling to boost morale.

WHY IS FLICKR AWESOME?
Apart from being a great space for creative-types, husband and wife team Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake built Flickr with strong roots in Canada’s great Pacific Northwest. In fact, Stewart even received a BA in philosophy from the University of Victoria (my proud hippie alma mater). That’s right Canada- We own the other team!!!! (W00t!!!)

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