Flickr was one of the first companies to open up a site where you upload your pictures, tag 'm and have an online gallery that can easily be shared on your website, blog or other places. Several other site followed the example, such as zoto. Flickr was bought by Yahoo last year. yahoo is hated by a group of Flickr users because of it's commercial nature. Yahoo made sure those users hate them even more by putting a Yhaoo!Games site online about Nintendo's Wii that makes use of the Flickr tags, showing Flickr user's personal pictures.
To be honest with you, I don't see a problem. These Flickr users have no problem sharing their pictures and tagging them, but they don't like Yahoo to make use of them. Well, I believe Yahoo should have communicated the possible use of people's pictures and offer them to skip theirs, but besides that I still don't see a problem. I work on a macbook every day, knowing Apple is a commercial company. How and why should that bother me ??
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If Flikr users are mad now, wait until they are interacted with through the 99 other niche sites that Yahoo has in its sites to start.
But that commercial thing is something people will have to get used to whether they like it or not. Even YouTube knows that it has to start monetizing the increasingly expensive video site.
This is a problem that I saw coming a long time ago when people marketed the ‘free’ use side of the equation. Now that the use is extremely high, they can no longer just let it go at zero cost.
I’m not sure how people didn’t see this coming.
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