Not everyone's happy that Yahoo is planning to migrate all its old-skool Flickr users over to Yahoo logins. "When it becomes mandatory to sign up to Yahoo, I will have to delete all my pics and close my account down and join with one of the other similar services on the net," writes one.
I've got an original Flickr login too, and got the email the other day explaining the shift. I have to admit, I didn't think much of it. Is there really kudos among the Flickr community if you're old-skool, rather than nu-skool? I think that's how it's spelt, by the way...
It's an interesting dilemma. So many Web 2.0 services' business plan is, basically, to get bought by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or whoever at some point. Yet what happens if that works, there's a rebranding, and users desert the original site in their droves?
I'm with Digital-Lifestyles which reported the unrest. A few diehards may ditch Flickr, but I'm sure Yahoo is thinking about the many tens of thousands more it can sign up by promoting the service elsewhere in its network.
(via Digital-Lifestyles)